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SpeedRacer: Panasonic Car Beats World Speed Record on AA Batteries |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:30 am |
| Tags: batteries, car, gadgets, oxyride, panasonic, speedracer |
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An electric car with painted flames, 192 AA batteries and a pilot looking like the Atomic Ant. That's what Panasonic used to beat the Guinness world speed record on an electric car running on standard batteries. Keep reading for details and a video of the car whizzing by. The car raced on a 65.8mph average, reaching a top 75.8mph speed. It doesn't seem like a lot, but for a 83.7-pound 10.8-feet-long car running on standard Panasonic AA Oxyride dry cell batteries it seems quite impressive. Even while the painted flames were obviously helping to speed it up. [Impress] [ Full article ] |
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