S2, E50 - Billy Creech, SEMA Garage, ’24 Toyota Tacoma

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🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Billy Creech, Desert Explorer, returns to discuss his recent trip with Holman to rediscover a historic overland route that was abandoned decades ago. Holman heads to SEMA Garage to witness a measuring session, catch up with Mike Spagnola, and drive the new ’24 Toyota Tacoma. The Truck Show Podcast is proudly presented by Nissan, in association with Banks Power.

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0:00.0	Well, Holman, I got to say, I feel a little accomplished.
0:04.6	This last week, Banks announced, and I get to send press releases out.
0:09.7	I think you called me actually the day I was fielding calls from press.
0:14.0	We announced the diesel hybrid humvee that we built for the army.
0:17.9	The one that's been sitting at Banks for a long time that I've walked by about 400 times
0:22.2	and couldn't say anything about it.
0:24.1	Yes, 18 months.
0:25.1	So that's officially official?
0:26.7	It is officially official.
0:27.7	We cannot announce the details, like what is it, power, but what is it, is it just a demonstration
0:33.8	vehicle?
0:34.8	It is a prototype.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.8	So the army is interested in, could they potentially convert a portion of the hundred
0:41.6	thousand in service humvees around the world to hybrid?
0:45.8	And if they could, what would they be capable of?
0:47.9	These are all the questions they are asking.
0:50.4	And Banks was the first of, I think there were only one or two organizations that were
0:57.3	asked to build a hybrid version of a humvee.
1:01.0	Ditch the anemic 6.5 liter diesel engine that's been in these since the 80s and replace
1:07.5	it with a V6 3 liter turbo diesel engine and backed by a hybrid system so it can run silently.
1:17.2	It can run just on the diesel engine or a combination thereof.
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