monster trucks

Remember the world's first all-electric monster truck? If you're at the AutoRama Car Show in Kansas City, Missouri this weekend, you'll be able to see it in action. We're told it'll be "participating in two car-crush demonstrations per day", which sounds like a polite way of saying it'll be causing total mechanical carnage as it pulverises a selection of old (gasoline-powered) clunkers. Manufactured by BIGFOOT 4x4 Inc, the #20 Monster truck is powered by 36 Odyssey PC1200 batteries. Each one weighs 38.2 pounds, but provides all the power needed to drive right over other cars. There's a modest...