Watch This All-Electric Corvette Set a Speed Record

Think your car is fast? It probably can't beat this souped-upward, all-electric Chevy Corvette from the light-green vehicle enthusiasts at Genovation Cars in Rockville, Physician.

The company's all-electric prototype Chevrolet Corvette, dubbed the Genovation eXtreme Electric or GXE, is now certified by the International Mile Racing Clan equally the earth's fastest street-legal electric car. As you lot can see from the video below, the heavily modified Corvette hitting a record-breaking 186.8mph without any trouble to earn the title.

Genovation said it was testing the auto at the Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds/Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida on Feb. 23 as part of a inquiry effort to meliorate vehicle performance when the GXE had its record-breaking run. The previous record was 177mph, ready by a Finnish prototype car.

"We are thrilled that the consequence of our development testing led to the setting of this record," Genovation CEO Andrew Saul said in a statement. "Based on our experience and then far, we believe the car to be extremely robust as we set the record on our beginning twenty-four hours of testing. We fully expect the machine to practise a lot more."

The GXE is based on a 2006 Z06 Corvette and includes a "state-of-the-art battery management system, inverters, batteries and electric motors that produce in excess of 700-hp and 600 lb-ft of torque," Genovation said. The motorcar has a range of 130 miles during "normal driving operation" with a "nearly 50/l weight distribution and is optimized for a low centre of gravity."

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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