Unlike many electric vehicle battery packs that are positioned in the floor of the vehicle, the Axeon pack has been designed to fit into the vehicle's engine bay in order to maintain ground clearance and wading height for this unique vehicle.

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Ms Hough said she had seen the vehicle parked in the disabled bay at Sainsbury's, but that there was "no disabled badge in the window and people were horrified that it had been parked there".

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We've seen mechanical devices creep through the inside of intestines, huge mounds of dirt, and even through the San Francisco Bay, but now a British deep-diving remotely operated vehicle ( ROV) is getting set to probe the depths of Antarctica.

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The vehicle is currently sitting in a small depression on the floor of Gale Crater known as Yellowknife Bay.

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