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An Electric Buggy Will Be the First EV to Take on the World’s Toughest Race
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For the last two years, the petrol-powered ProDakar McRae Buggy 4x2, the work of an Anglo-Dutch team headed by rally car driver Alister McRae, has successfully finished on the Dakar Rally, perhaps the world's most extreme car race. The route runs 9,000 mostly off-road kilometers (5,592 mi) through Argentina, Chile and Peru. But for the 2012 race, the McCrae team has set itself a new goal: it will be the first team to field an electric vehicle at the Dakar. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
