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LONDON, England - A racing car technology company run by a former British cabinet minister wants to set a land speed record for all-electric vehicles.
Drayson Racing Technologies said the attempt on the World Electric Land Speed Record would happen on June 25 at a Royal Air Force base in Yorkshire, north-eastern England.
The bid will be for the sub-1000kg class by racing driver and former British science minister Lord Paul Drayson. He will drive a low-drag version of the Drayson B12 69/EV electric Le-Mans prototype foot-flat down their airfield's 3km runway.
PROGRESS DEMO
Drayson will aim to better the record of 282km/h set by Battery Box General Electric in the US in 1974. He explained: "It is not the outright speed that is impressive about this record attempt but the engineering challenge of accelerating a 1000kg electric vehicle to such a high speed.
"It's a tremendous technical challenge but we believe it's about time somebody moved this record to demonstrate just how far EV technology has come."
REAL RESULT
Drayson Racing Technologies is a research and development business pioneering the development of sustainable technologies in motorsport.
"We are doing this to showcase the maximum level of EV performance at the moment - and in a real racing car rather than a teardrop-shaped land-speed record car," said Drayson.
The enthusiast called the car "a running laboratory".
Drayson Racing Technologies said the attempt on the World Electric Land Speed Record would happen on June 25 at a Royal Air Force base in Yorkshire, north-eastern England.
The bid will be for the sub-1000kg class by racing driver and former British science minister Lord Paul Drayson. He will drive a low-drag version of the Drayson B12 69/EV electric Le-Mans prototype foot-flat down their airfield's 3km runway.
PROGRESS DEMO
Drayson will aim to better the record of 282km/h set by Battery Box General Electric in the US in 1974. He explained: "It is not the outright speed that is impressive about this record attempt but the engineering challenge of accelerating a 1000kg electric vehicle to such a high speed.
"It's a tremendous technical challenge but we believe it's about time somebody moved this record to demonstrate just how far EV technology has come."
REAL RESULT
Drayson Racing Technologies is a research and development business pioneering the development of sustainable technologies in motorsport.
"We are doing this to showcase the maximum level of EV performance at the moment - and in a real racing car rather than a teardrop-shaped land-speed record car," said Drayson.
The enthusiast called the car "a running laboratory".
