Submission + - Record-Breaking EV Goes 623 Miles on Single Charge (inhabitat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Japanese Electric Vehicle Club has just earned one of the most coveted honors on Earth — a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. They did it by smashing the current record for longest electric vehicle trip on a single charge by driving their custom built Daihatsu Mira a whopping 623 miles. The little electric car ran technology built around 8,320 Sanyo li-ion cells (totaling about 807lbs), which make up about half the weight of a commercial Mira.
