Students from the University of New South Wales in Australia have broken the electric vehicle world speed record over 500 kilometres.
The institute’s solar racing team – which goes by the name Sunswift – achieved the speed of 106.966 km/h over the distance in its current vehicle, eVe, on a single battery charge. That shatters the previous record of 73 km/h, which had stood for 26 years.
More than 100 undergraduate students contributed to the not-for-profit project over the past two years.
“It’s not often you can confidently say you made history before you even graduated,” Sunswift’s project director and third-year engineering student Hayden Smith said in astatement.
