Submission + - UK students build electric car with 264 mile range
da_how writes: A group of students and graduates at Imperial College London have built an electric car with a massive range — 264+ miles on one charge at 'reasonable' highway speeds (60 mph). They appear to have done this by filling the car to the absolute max with as many Lithium-Iron-Phosphate batteries as possible (56 kWh) and designing a very efficient direct drive powertrain (about 90% batteries to wheels at highway speeds from what I've read). The choice of vehicle is an interesting one, it's a converted Radical SR8 — a track racing car with speed record on the Nurburgring.Not an obvious contender for an endurance vehicle (no windscreen either!) — but then they claim it's lightweight to start with (steel space frame and glass fibre), plus Radical are based in the UK and presumably provided some help. You can read all about it in the Wired Magazine blog at http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/05/racing-green-endurance-srzero/ — personally I think it's pretty cool looking..
