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Electric Race Car Sets Four New Land Speed Records

Topics:  Drayson Racing, Drayson Racing B12/69 EV

Electric Race Car Sets Four New Land Speed Records

Matt Hubbard
Speedmonkey
October 15, 2013

Drayson Racing took their electric race car, the B12/69 EV, which is based on a Le Mans Prototype to Elvington Airfield and set four new land speed records.

The car does 0-100mph in 5.1 seconds, weighs 995kg, is powered by a 640kW/850bhp electric motor and stores its power in Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries. It set the following records:

World electric land speed record for sub-999kg vehicles with a new average speed over one mile of 205.139mph, set from a flying start
As above but over a kilometre, of 333.271kph (207.085mph)
Electric vehicle acceleration world record over a quarter mile from a standing start in 9.742 seconds
British land speed record over the measured mile for cars of any propulsion driven by wheels.

Lord Drayson drove the car in all runs. Not a bad result at all. Well done chaps.

Here's the Drayson electric race car in action at Goodwood.