No need to worry, Bugatti: Your record is secure, even though your top trip speed was bested -- the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2.5 has just set the land speed record for fastest battery electric vehicle. (Besides, the BB 2.5 isn't nearly as sexy as the 16.4 Super Sport -- or as easy to park, for that matter.) This week, the Buckeye Bullet 2.5, created by engineering students at Ohio State University in partnership with French EV manufacturer Venturi, blasted through Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats with a two-way average speed of 307.7 mph. That's the average of two mile-long trips taken within 60 minutes of one another, though the Buckeye Bullet can go faster than that -- it exited one of the mile-long trips at an astonishing 320 mph.
How's it powered? We'll let Gizmag explain:
"The Bullet 2.5 uses the same body and chassis of the hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Buckeye Bullet 2, and nearly the same electric traction system, but it is powered by a 600+ kilowatt A123 Systems lithium-ion battery pack that was designed, tested and assembled by the Bullet team and A123 Systems."
The new record easily breaks that of the White Lightning battery electric vehicle, which hit 245 mph in 1999.
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