OSCar eO (Electric Race Car) and Team Latvia in Dakar 2012

The Rīga Rally-Raid Team is ready for its next attempt of the Dkar Rally and it'll make things more interesting with a series hybrid powertrain. Its car is called the OSCar eO, an EV with enough batteries to make it between 150 and 300km on a charge. However, most Dakar stages are well longer than that, so the car also carries an on-board generator, a Nissan-sourced engine fueled by a 200 liter fuel tank. That's 53 gallons worth of the good stuff to keep this thing going over the kind of terrain. Source: Engadget