Students at the Ohio State University are working together with the Venturi, a Monegasque electric car company, to create the new car which can be considered the fastest electric vehicle in the world. We are talking about the VBB-3 (Venturi Buckeye Bullet-3), which uses electric motors and is promising to achieve incredibly high speeds. According to the engineers responsible for the VBB-3, the vehicle will soon be able to achieve impressive speeds of up 640 kilometers per hour (400mph).
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To reach this record, the 2 electric engines are powered by eight large lithium-ion battery packs each. That’s enough to total about 3,000 horsepower. There is also a high-powered parachute to assist the braking process of the vehicle – since it needs several kilometers to completely stop.
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It is worth noting that this is not the first partnership between the two teams. In 2010, an earlier version of the vehicle – the VBB-2.5 – achieved the incredible mark of 494 kilometers per hour, also using electric motors. This weekend, the VBB-3 will test its engines at the Bonneville Salt Flats for a new attempt to break land speed records.
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