An ultra-light electric car built by students at a US university has set a new land speed record in its class, besting the previous mark by nearly 80kmph.
Electric Blue, an E1 streamliner designed and modified by more than 130 Brigham Young University (BYU) students over the past 10 years, averaged 330kmph on two qualifying runs this month. The new mark obliterates the previous record, 250kmph, which was set by the same BYU car in 2011.
The car notched the record this month in front of approximately 180 teams and their cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah.
