The Buckeye Bullet team at Ohio State University is building what it hopes will be the first electric vehicle to break 400 miles per hour, something only nine gas-powered cars have done. The video below shows the Buckeye 2 which hit 300 mph.
Earlier iterations of the vehicle have already set electric-vehicle speed records, but crossing to 400 mph requires that the team invent solutions to a host of engineering problems.
Among the challenges: generating enough power from the four electric motors, tweaking the aerodynamics to keep the car fast but stable, and making sure the tires don’t blow apart.
If all goes as planned, the team will make its attempts at breaking the 400-mph barrier during test runs this coming September on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.
Source: Scientific American