A team of engineers from the Technical University of Munich recently achieved the Guinness World Record for the most efficient electric vehicle. TUfast Eco Team’s TUfast eLi14 officially showed an average energy use of 1232 km/kWh, which would theoretically allow the car to cover 10,956 kms on energy equivalent to 1 litre of gas.
Chen, an electrical and computer engineering student, pointed out that while hydrogen fuel cell systems are notoriously finicky, electric battery technology is tried, true and predictable, so the team was able to focus almost exclusively on perfecting the vehicle’s aerodynamics over the past year. By improving aerodynamic performance by 39 percent, the team was able to capture the new world record.
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