Team BIGFOOT, creators of The Original Monster Truck, recently completed the first test of their newest creation, BIGFOOT#20, the world's first battery-powered monster truck.
 
Legendary monster truck Hall of Fame driver Jim Kramer navigated BIGFOOT #20 over a pair of junk cars donated by a local salvage yard numerous times to the amazement of the crowd, which consisted of BIGFOOT employees, a local TV news station, and numerous BIGFOOT fans. The truck drove around the parking lot and over the cars for over 20 minutes without losing any power, all while remaining eerily quiet. One onlooker remarked "I've been going to monster truck shows for years, and I've never actually heard the cars get crushed under the tires. This thing is just unreal!"
 
BIGFOOT #20 is the world's first completely electric powered monster truck. Odyssey Battery, a sponsor of the team for more than a decade, supplied the 36 car batteries that power the truck, and renowned electric engine builder Dennis Berube of Electrified Motorsports of Phoenix, AZ supplied much of the initial electric racing motor know how.
 
The team installed the powerful DC electric motor, which provides the truck with more than 800 ft/lbs of direct-drive torque, then fabricated a pair of custom lexan-encased battery packs that included a grand total of 30 Odyssey batteries, producing 360 volts of power. With that in place, the team turned to a bullet-proof ProFab transfer case to send power to the custom-built driveshafts, which would in turn motivate heavy-duty ZF planetary axles with internal wet disc brakes to handle the stopping chores. BIGFOOT #20 was then equipped with monster truck standard 66-inch tall Firestone flotation tires mounted on blacked-out custom 25-inch steel wheels and eight (8) nitrogen-charged Knight Stalker monster truck racing shocks.
 
After making its debut to great fanfare at the 2012 SEMA show in Las Vegas, the team wasted no time preparing the truck to make its first test run after its return to St. Louis.
 
The team now plans to complete additional test sessions with the truck, taking what they've learned and applying it in hopes of ramping up the performance potential of the new machine. Fans can expect to see it making appearances throughout 2013, with the announcement of official dates expected in the coming weeks.