In our daily lives we see a number of regular vehicles running on roads. Its speed usually ranges to the level of competitor’s range and rarely a few would be above the margins. This article brings to you a few vehicle one of its own kind with their record breaking history. To their added quality these vehicle do not run on natural resource and even then their performance is way ahead than what we see around us.
Buckeye Bullet
The Buckeye Bullet 2.5 is a battery electric version of the Buckeye Bullet 2. It uses the same frame and body, but replaces the fuel cell power source with lithium ion batteries. Buckeye Bullet 2 & 1 are the earlier versions of Buckeye Bullet 2.5. This is a battery electric powered land speed race car built by Buckeye Bullet team which is a group of students from The Ohio State University. It has set a world record average two-way speed of 307.7mph (495km/h) with its battery electric Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2.5. Earlier White Lightning has set a record of 394km/h(245mph) in 1999 but now it has been broken by Buckeye Bullet 2.5. This new record was set by the Bullet at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah this week.
e-kart Linde1
This is e-Kart Linde 1, a first of its kind electric go kart, which has recently made an attempt of accelerating from 0 to 60mph in just “3.4 seconds”. This rare performance has made its pathway to Guinness World Record claiming to fit in a new record category. The event was kept in an auto racing competition of Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club Gran Turismo Masters Weekend which was supported by the German ADAC automotive club.
KillaCycle
The KillaCycle is an electrically-powered motorcycle purpose-built for drag racing. It was built and is managed by a small motor works team owned and run by Bill Dubé. It is the fastest electric motorcycle in the world. Its top speed is ranked to be 170mph or 274km/h. It covers 1/4 miles in 7.89 seconds at 270.36 km/h(168mph). Since its race in October 23rd 2008, Killacycle had set many records in its name.
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Electric Motorcycle Smashes World Speed Record
This bike shattered the world speed record for electric bikes at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. It has consistently reached speeds of 150 mph. It has been designed in collaboration with Fuse project and was inaugurated by Yves Béhar earlier this year.
Electric Moto Speed Record
The Lightning SuperBike is equally suited to track days or weekend rides on your favorite back roads. The Lightning SuperBike became the world’s fastest production electric motorcycle with the FIM and AMA official World Record of 173.388mph and a best timed run of 176.044 mph at Bonneville during the World Finals in October. Lightning Motorcycle has partnered with Race Tech for track ready suspension development. Every Lightning SuperBike is factory equipped with track mapping data acquisition.
The Lightning Electric SuperBike has a usable freeway speed range of over 100 miles and a combined city and highway EPA range of over 150 miles and a top speed of over 180 mph.
Ride Along at 190mph on an Electric Motorcycle
The SWIGZ team and Chip Yates, a member, have earlier bested some internally-combused competition on the track and the result is 190MPH from a standing start which was completed at the Mojave Mile event. The record designates this motorcycle as the fastest electric motorcycle in the world (190.6 MPH) and most powerful electric superbike (240 HP, 400 ft/lbs of torque).
Peugeot EX1
The lightweight, four-wheel drive Peugeot EX1 was created to celebrate Peugeot’s 200th birthday but later it whirred its way into the record books by lapping the 12-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife with a 9:01.338-minute run. According to Peugeot, that shatters the previous electric vehicle record at the track by an impressive 50 seconds. Its debuted was at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, averaged 85 mph on its record-setting run.
The World’s Fastest Electric Car
Among scientists and engineers, the lower case t denotes time. The symbol t0, pronounced“t-zero” represents the beginning. AC Propulsion’s tzero™ technology designates a new era: that in which the electric vehicle is a viable mode of transportation for everyone. AC Propulsion’s drive system leads the industry in peak and continuous power density – both on volumetric and weight bases. It delivers up to 200 kW (268 hp) motor output while maximizing vehicle-operating range with high efficiency over a broad operating range, and provides comprehensive energy recovery through traction-controlled regenerative braking. The tzero’s torque peaks instantly, with 183 ft-lbs. available from 0 to 5,000 rpm and it has the capacity to go 280 to 300 miles at 60 mph without recharging.
