An electric car with painted flames, 192 AA batteries and a pilot looking like the Atomic Ant. That's what Panasonic used to beat the Guinness world speed record on an electric car running on standard batteries. Keep reading for details and a video of the car whizzing by.
The car raced on a 65.8mph average, reaching a top 75.8mph speed. It doesn't seem like a lot, but for a 83.7-pound 10.8-feet-long car running on standard Panasonic AA Oxyride dry cell batteries it seems quite impressive. Even while the painted flames were obviously helping to speed it up. [Impress]












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they shoud make a car that runs on a million lemmons all connected together to make a giant battery
It's Atom Ant, for gods sake. And he would have to be a LOT more red faced than that.
Still, 192 AA's must be a BITCH to replace. :)
Wow. I'm guessing this won't win any envirinmental awards.
I don't think that in 5 Years, I will go throught that many batteries.
I plan on breaking this record using 193 AA batteries.
Atom Ant
The biggest problem is that it's a real bitch having to check the batteries, one by one, until you find the one you put in backwards. That, and the fact that it only goes in reverse if you put them in backward.
Shoulda used Energizer.
IMHO, 192 AA batteries is far from standard.
Time and time again, I am realizing that people really do have TOO much time on their hands.
@shoegazer:
Not really.
They have this giant robotic maintenance hand that just smacks 'em out.
Are you sure that isn't Adam Ant? I thought I heard "Goody Two Shoes" playing on the radio, but that would have knocked 10mph off the speed. SInce no one's heard of him since about 1988, I'll bet he needed the work.
Put my fat nerdy butt in that car (if you physically could) and watch me drive that sucker to a wheel breaking 5mph.
I own a Honda Insight (hybrid). The battery it uses is actually two seperate arrays of 72 rechargeable D size batteries each, for a total of 144 Standard D size rechargeable batteries...
Put a V-Tech sticker on it to make it go faster.
how many AA batts does it consume for one km? Hope its rechargeable.
its prone to overheating, change it with mercedes 260e radiator..
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