Student Fabricated Car Achieves World Land Speed Record Of 155.8 Mph

The students of the Brigham Young University (BYU) are now celebrating after their design of “The Electric Blue” streamliner, which now has achieved world record of highest land speed car in the ‘E1’ category. This speed is the average speed of the taken in two qualifying runs, in which in one run the car reached a maximum speed of 175 mph. This speed has given success to seven years of hard work of students under the guidance of Perry Carter who is a retired professor of the university.

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The car has long, slender shape and enclosed wheels to reduce its size so that it can be termed as a streamline. The car has aerodynamic body and lithium iron phosphate batteries which has helped to achieve the cars’ high speed. The car was judged on its two runs by the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association and was authorized by the Southern California Timing Association - Bonneville Nations, Inc. This is a light weighed car under the ‘E1’ category. It has a record setting time and not a record breaking time because no such record has ever been created by any car belonging to this category.

This is because the speed of these kinds of vehicles depends upon the weight of its body and the heavy sized battery used. The earlier model of the same kind created by the students of BYU failed because of the weight of the car, which was damaged during the second run. Around 130 students of the BYU have worked for this project for over seven years belonging to various disciplines who were unpaid volunteers to the project.

Source: Gizmag

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