88.738 kilometers per hour - this is a new world speed record for solntsemobiley.
Indicator - the average rate on the sum of two attempts to pass pyatisotmetrovki January 7 this year. Perhaps the strap would rise above, if the skies that day were cleaner.
The new record holder - Sunswift IVy - designed by students from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), not the first time creating such machines. As a rule, students, and were driving cars during solar racing. But this time the car driving professional racers Mauer Barton (Barton Mawer) and Craig Davis (Craig Davis) from the company Tesla Motors. Tests were performed at the air base runway Australian Navy (HMAS Albatross).
Compared with their predecessors of some fundamentally new features in the design Sunswift IVy not appeared: all the same three-wheel, very lightweight body of carbon fiber, 400 solar cells. At the time of trial designs has been removed from a lithium-polymer battery weight of 25 pounds (total weight of the car dropped to 200 kg). The result is counted only if the energy comes entirely from solar panels.
Past achievements in this field has been demonstrated in the distant 1988. Then Sunraycer from General Motors' clocked up to 78.3 km / h, for which he also received an official certificate from Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records).
The record was delivered in the third and fourth rounds. After that, the pilots still tried several times to surpass his own achievement. But the weather, unfortunately, not contributed (photo Talal Omar / Guinness World Records)
