Collaborate Disseminate
Although velomobiles are known for being faster than bicycles, some of the more “practical” models can be rather ungainly. That doesn’t apply to the Snoek, though, which is built first and foremost for speed.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Velomobile, World’s Fastest
Continue reading Snoek may just be the fastest velomobile you can buy
America’s Shelby Supercars has more or less abandoned its world’s fastest car claim after eagle-eyed YouTubers pointed out a number of embarrassing, possibly costly discrepancies in its video of the SSC Tuatara making a claimed 316-mph two-way run.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: SSC, Hypercar, World’s Fastest, World Records, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara’s 316-mph speed record
Thirteen years after it made a name for itself with its first world speed record, SSC has done it again, absolutely blowing the field away with a new official world speed record. On Saturday, October 10, on a dry, sun-drenched stretch of state highway outside Las Vegas, pro driver Oliver Webb took the wheel of the 1,750-hp SSC Tuatara and pushed it past the elusive 300-mph (483-km/h) barrier … and just kept going. The Tuatara averaged an incredible 316.11 mph (508.73 km/h) on its official two-way run, hitting a mind-blowing 331.15 mph (532.93 km/h) on the return leg and forever cementing its place in automotive history.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: World Records, SSC, Supercar, Hypercar, World’s Fastest
Continue reading SSC Tuatara sets 316-mph record to become world’s fastest production car
Last year, we heard how Rolls-Royce was developing what it claims will be the world’s fastest electric airplane, the ACCEL. Now, the company has announced that it has completed ground testing of the technology that will be used in the aircraft.
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Continue reading Ground testing completed for Rolls-Royce ACCEL electric aircraft tech
When we think of soft-bodied robots, we tend to picture things that slowly crawl like caterpillars. A new one is able to move much quicker, though, by leaping like a cheetah.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Soft Robotics, Biomimicry, locomotion, World’s Fastest, North Carolina State University, Temple University, Colorado State University, City University of New York
Continue reading Soft-bodied robot channels the cheetah to move fast
The best phone cameras can record slow motion with under 1,000 frames per second. Commercial rigs generally shoot with several thousand. But that all absolutely pales in comparison to the new record holder for the world’s fastest camera, boasting a mind-boggling rate of 70 trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to capture light waves in movement.
Category: Electronics, Science
Tags: Camera, Cameras, World’s Fastest, Caltech, Imaging, Laser, Femtosecond, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading World’s fastest camera captures 70 trillion frames per second
When some ambitious supercar startup gets up on the dais and says it’s introducing the fastest car in the world, you stop what you’re doing for a moment to listen but then walk away thinking, “Yeah, I’ll believe it when they clock an actual record.” But when an established player like Koenigsegg says the same, you stop dead in your tracks and behold the new speed king. Koenigsegg doesn’t even have to call the all-new Jesko Absolut the world’s fastest car, because as the world’s fastest Koenigsegg, it’s automatically the world’s fastest car. Packing 1,600 hp, a streamlined profile and fins like a fighter jet, the Jesko Absolut debuts as an all-out speed machine, the fastest Koenigsegg that ever was and ever will be.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Koenigsegg, World’s Fastest, Supercars, geneva-motor-show-2020, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Jesko Absolut is the fastest production car Koenigsegg will ever build
Way back in 2011, a year after Bugatti had set its long-standing world speed record, SSC showed it had no intention of relinquishing the title for good, revealing the silky smooth 1,350-hp Tuatara. Things seemed like they were moving along, but then the Tuatara went MIA and looked like it had become a member of the vaporware club. The all-American supercar reemerged in Pebble Beach last year, just as a new round of “world’s fastest” is growing hotter and hotter. Tuatara production is now underway, marking a rather important step in the Tuatara’s quest to become world’s speediest production car.
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Continue Reading Nearly a decade later, production of the 1,750-hp SSC Tuatara begins
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Continue reading Nearly a decade later, production of the 1,750-hp SSC Tuatara begins