Monday, May 24, 2010

New World Record - Electric Car Runs Over 1,000 KM without Recharge

The Japan Electric Vehicle Club [JP], a civic group based in Tokyo, announced today an electric Car Mira EV customized by the group has succeeded in getting an electric car to run 1,003.184 kilometres without a recharge, far surpassing the world record the group achieved last year.


Guinness World Records has officially recorded a 555.6 km run by an electric car operated by the same group from Tokyo to Osaka last November as the longest journey by electric vehicle without recharging.
The new record was Successfully completed by driving the car at a driving course in Shimotsuma, Japan, which is apparently the world’s longest.

Powered by a Sanyo lithium-ion battery (built by assembling 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries), the car ran for 27 and a half hours at around 40km/h on average.

The Japan Electric Vehicle Club said it will ask Guinness World Records to officially recognize the journey soon

Sources: Japantoday