sunswift eVe electric car is fastest over 500km distance on single charge
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sunswift, a team of students from the university of new south wales have developed ‘eVe’, the world’s fastest electric vehicle over a distance of 500 kilometers on a single battery charge. achieving an average speed of more than 100 km/h during the attempt, the experimental vehicle has broken a 26-year-old world speed record, bettering the previous world record of 73km/h. the student built zero-emission car uses solar panels on the roof and hood to charge a 60 kilogram battery, making it ‘a symbol for a new era of sustainable driving’.

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‘this record was about establishing a whole new level of single-charge travel for high-speed electric vehicles, which we hope will revolutionize the electric car industry,’ said project director hayden smith. ‘five hundred kilometers is pretty much as far as a normal person would want to drive in a single day,’ he adds. ‘it’s another demonstration that one day you could be driving our car.’

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 the record still hasn’t been officially approved by the FIA, the world motorsport’s governing body

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the vehicle was put to the test on a 4.2 kilometer circular track at the australian automotive research center