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Aussie students crack EV world record
UNSW Sunswift's eVe has averaged nearly 107km/h over a 500km courseThe Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has officially recognised a new speed record set by the UNSW Sunswift team's solar racing car, the eVe.
According to the FIA, eVe covered a 500km route at an average speed of 106.966km/h. In so doing, the solar car achieved an average speed nearly 34km/h faster than the speed for the previous record holder. The previous record had stood for 26 years.
"It's not often you can confidently say you made history before you even graduated," Sunswift's project director and third-year engineering student Hayden Smith said.
"If there is one thing we've learned, it's that you're never too young to make an impact."
Sunswift is supported by more than 100 undergraduate students, who received the warm congratulations of UNSW Engineering Dean, Professor Graham Davies, who described the record-breaking run as "another exceptional feat".
"For a student project to achieve a new world record for electric vehicle speed and endurance is truly remarkable," Professor Davies said.
"It goes to show what exceptional students we have here at UNSW."
Late last year we reported on eVe and the engineering team behind it, but since then the zero-emissions race car has not only broken the speed record, it's now facing its biggest hurdle yet – road registration.
"eVe will now be taken off the road for a few months to begin the transformation," Smith was quoted saying in a press release.
"We've always wanted to keep pushing the cultural change towards electric vehicles, and this is another big step in that direction."
The team plans for the car to be registered and roadworthy within 12 months.
Picture courtesy UNSW/Sunswift
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