| Electric Car News: OSU Buckeye Bullet Sets World Record 307 MPH
How fast can an electric car go? Students at the Ohio State University may have just broken the world record for EV speed. The previous record of 245.5 MPH was set back in 1999. 11 years later, the new record is 307.7 MPH. Panacea USA explains:
The record might have been broken years earlier, but electric cars are an obscure category in auto racing and few are interested in developing a battery-powered streamliner when piston-driven cars go much faster, said Dave Petrali, chief steward for U.S. Auto Club and a timer for the international motorsports body, the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA).
“It takes a lot of power and a huge battery pack” for an electric car to attain high speeds, he said.
The speeds still need to be verified by the FIA
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