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Decades-old Electric Vehicle Speed Record Broken By University Of NSW

A team of students from the University of New South Wales has rewritten the record for the fastest electric vehicle over 500 kilometres. The EV averaged more than 100km/h over the 500km distance on a single battery charge, convincingly beating the old


A team of students from the University of New South Wales has rewritten the record for the fastest electric vehicle over 500 kilometres.

The EV averaged more than 100km/h over the 500km distance on a single battery charge, convincingly beating the old mark of 73km/h set 26 years ago.

How far above 100km/h? The team isn’t saying just yet, as the record needs to be verified by the world’s governing body for motorsport - the FIA – before it can be made official.

The record was set at the Australian Automotive Research Centre at Anglesea near Geelong in Victoria, and should become the first FIA record set in Australia since 1984 (set in a production-based petrol-powered sedan). 

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