Tesla Sets New World Record for Distance Driven on Single Charge
A US-built Tesla Roadster has broken the world record for the distance travelled by an electric production car on a single charge.
While competing in the Global Green Challenge, Australian Simon Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas drove an incredible 313 miles before the batteries finally died in their Roadster.
Until now, the record has been held by another Tesla Roadster, after completing a 241 mile road rally on one charge.
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The as yet unofficial record was set after the pair drove a gruelling route from Alice Springs to the Northern Territory. After clocking up an astonishing 500km they still had an estimated 3 miles of charge remaining.
Speaking about the feat, Hackett told reporters, “Emilis and I have decades of experience flying gliders competitively and we applied the same energy conservation techniques to our driving.”
Image Credit - Autocar
The terrain and road conditions make a huge difference. Was this 300 miles all downhill on perfectly flat tarmac with the wind at your heels?
Just kidding. Good Job mates, the next step is to make it affordable so we can raise our middle finger to the oil barons of the world.
If green energy links with permaculture systems and put that over efficency designs, a community could be self reliant and sell energy products, and other sustainable goods to market. We need power purchase agreements with city councils. Until that happens, and new eco villages are made, we are doomed to extinction. The scale of our situation requires nothing less. Banks do not want this. So they dissolve wealth, and seize power. THE REVOLUTION IS A FIGHT FOR INNOVATION
“Until that happens, and new eco villages are made, we are doomed to extinction.” Well we could return to the political organizations of the American Indians or that of the tribesmen of Africa. Those were/are at one with nature.
Or we could utilize the technology that powers our nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers and simply place a nuclear power station in each small town in the country, which would greatly reduce the damage that could be done by destruction of the national power grid. We could also utilize the desalination plants in these ships around the perimeter of the nation and eliminate many of the interstate battles for water. Let’s face it, those living on the ocean should not be obtaining their water from the farmlands of the interior of the country.
There are solutions NOW for many of our problems, but we also have extremely selfish persons, many in positions of power, that don’t want their view of the horizon spoiled by the solution. Please don’t tell me that the environmental considerations prevent us from doing this. If that were the case, then we would not be preventing the Mississippi delta from moving as it has done for centuries. A careful analysis of “environmental” objections is that they are used only to say “NO”.
They probably could have gone a lot further if they weren’t both 50 pounds overweight. Though I guess that makes it a better real world test for use in the US.