The Rolls-Royce ?Spirit of Innovation? Is The World?s Fastest EV
The Spirit of Innovation, Rolls-Royce's fully electric aircraft breaks a few world records, and is the fastest EV in the world.
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Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft is the world’s fastest electric vehicle, announced the company after concluding its test runs on November 16.
The vehicle named “Spirit of Innovation” reached a top speed of 387.4 mph during its record-breaking runs.
The company held a series of test runs at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down testing facility in Wiltshire, England on November 16. And the results from the mock trials have seen the battery-backed aircraft setting three new world records.
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The first of which is hitting 345.5 mph over 3 km ? overtaking the old record by 132 mph; secondly, the Spirit of Innovation also managed 330 mph over 15 km, which is 182 mph faster than the previous record; lastly, it also achieved the fastest time to climb to 3,000 m by 60 seconds with a time of 3.4 minutes.
The stellar performance of the Spirit of Innovation beats out the 2017 Siemens electric jet as the fastest electric jet.
Image: Rolls-Royce
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The post The Rolls-Royce “Spirit of Innovation” Is The World’s Fastest EV appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft is the world’s fastest electric vehicle, announced the company after concluding its test runs on November 16.
The vehicle named “Spirit of Innovation” reached a top speed of 387.4 mph during its record-breaking runs.
The company held a series of test runs at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down testing facility in Wiltshire, England on November 16. And the results from the mock trials have seen the battery-backed aircraft setting three new world records.
READ MORE: Rolls-Royce ?Spirit of Innovation? is A Giant Step Towards Decarbonisation
The first of which is hitting 345.5 mph over 3 km ? overtaking the old record by 132 mph; secondly, the Spirit of Innovation also managed 330 mph over 15 km, which is 182 mph faster than the previous record; lastly, it also achieved the fastest time to climb to 3,000 m by 60 seconds with a time of 3.4 minutes.
The stellar performance of the Spirit of Innovation beats out the 2017 Siemens electric jet as the fastest electric jet.
Image: Rolls-Royce
READ MORE: Rolls-Royce Announces Its First Fully Electric Vehicle, Spectre
The zero-emissions aircraft was announced in 2019 and was dev...
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