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Hydrogen-fueled combustion engines have slowly emerged in the mobility world, designed to run everything from race cars to pleasure boats. The latest hydrogen ICE to rumble to life was born with a special mission at its core: claim an all-out land spee… Continue reading Hydrogen combustion engine fires up on road to land speed record run
Lightning Motorcycles has unveiled the Tachyon Nb, a modified, streamlined version of the Strike electric sportsbike designed to take aim at the electric motorcycle land speed record, targeting speeds over 250 mph (400 km/h) in the process.Continue Rea… Continue reading Lightning unveils the Tachyon Nb, its new electric land-speed contender
An autonomous race team from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) has set a new land speed record for driverless cars, recording a two-way average of 192.2 mph (309.3 km/h) over a flying kilometer (0.62 miles) on a space shuttle airstrip at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Tags: Autonomous Vehicles, Racing, Land Speed Records, World Records, World’s Fastest, New Atlas Audio
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With the Bloodhound SSC team flat broke, and the North American Eagle destroyed in a tragic fireball in Oregon, Perth’s Aussie Invader 5R is planning to take a run at the very elusive 1,000 mph (1,609.3 km/h) mark. In doing so, the team will need to sm… Continue reading 200,000-horsepower Aussie rocket car takes aim at 1,000 mph in 2022
The bumpy road endured by the Bloodhound supersonic car appears set to continue for some time yet, with the current owners behind the venture putting the project up for sale again. Citing difficulties raising funds in light of the coronavirus pandemic,… Continue reading Bloodhound supersonic car project runs out of funds
While some speed records are going through a heated patch of controversy right now, others appear to be agreed upon. French manufacturer Voxan and the global sanctioning body for motorcycle racing, the FIM, have put out joint press releases announcing … Continue reading Voxan claims 11 records with the world’s fastest electric motorcycle
Land speed racers are a rare and different breed, willing to put their entire lives on the line for a chance at the immortality offered by the record books, and the ability to look at the world from a perspective and velocity nobody before them has exp… Continue reading Farewell to the fastest motorcyclist on the planet, Ralph Hudson
April 2019, what heady days those were, back before the post-modern plague crammed us into our hovels and forced us to take many long, hard looks at ourselves. I remember it being a month of plentiful avocado and bacon toasties, of carefree hand-shakin… Continue reading Voxan reveals its 367-hp Wattman electric land speed attempt motorcycle
Time for a quick update on Shea Nyquist’s quest to break the land speed record in a fully electric streamliner. The bike is up and running, albeit without any fairing panels on it yet, and Nyquist has been doing some “kind of illegal” but successful testing on quiet backroads near his home.
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Continue Reading Shea Nyquist’s electric land speed motorcycle does 80 mph on 10 percent throttle in testing
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The Bloodhound supersonic car project has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to set its sights on the land speed record once again. The vehicle will hit the track in October for the first time since its relaunch, with the team announci… Continue reading Bloodhound LSR supersonic car to return to high-speed testing ahead of 2020 record attempt