student-built electric car fastest over 500km distance on single charge

sunswift eVe electric car is fastest over 500km distance on single charge
all images courtesy sunswift/daniel chen

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’.

‘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.’

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

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