Dakar is such a brutal race. It's good to know someday it will be done with all electric motorcycles and electric trucks because gas vehicles won't be competitive.
The only headroom is the room in my head where my brain should be - I added it up wrong...
I appreciate the Tesla packs are state-of-the-art, but they're almost double the energy density of the ones in the Dakar racer and at least comparable in C-rate.
I guess they are playing safe & heavy with LiFePo4 cells like CalB or such that are very durable and easy to fix if there are issues.
A Dakar vehicle has enough issues to deal with without having to mess with battery cooling/heating systems and fussy condition monitoring etc in something like a sealed Tesla pack.
