{"id":576511,"date":"2010-05-24T04:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T08:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159413"},"modified":"2010-05-24T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T08:51:42","slug":"electric-car-runs-over-1000-km-without-recharge-shatters-previous-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576511","title":{"rendered":"Electric car runs over 1,000 km without recharge, shatters previous record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-159416\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/24\/electric-car-runs-over-1000-km-without-recharge-shatters-previous-record\/japan_sanyo_ev\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159416\" title=\"japan_sanyo_ev\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/japan_sanyo_ev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest problems that stands between electric vehicles and becoming mainstream is limited battery life. But there has been some progress in that area lately: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jevc.gr.jp\/\">Japan Electric Vehicle Club<\/a> [JP], a civic group based in Tokyo, <a href=\"http:\/\/sanyo.com\/news\/2010\/05\/24-1.html\">announced<\/a> today a Mira EV customized by the group traveled exactly 1,003.184 kilometers without a recharge.<\/p>\n<p>The club shattered its own record from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/04\/21\/guinness-world-record-sanyo-battery-lets-e-car-travel-555-6-km-without-recharging\/\">last month<\/a> when another electric vehicle drove 555.6km (345 miles) from Tokyo to  Osaka on a single charge. The new record was made possible by driving the car at a driving course in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shimotsuma,_Ibaraki\">Shimotsuma<\/a>, Japan, which is apparently the world&#8217;s longest.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by a Sanyo lithium-ion battery (built by assembling 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries), the car ran for 27 and a half hours at around 40km\/h on average.<\/p>\n<p>The club had a team of 17 people at the course who took turns at the wheel. It will ask the Guinness World Records to officially recognize the drive soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9YMo-FOtjZCb4XxBxe9L8FG9Hu8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9YMo-FOtjZCb4XxBxe9L8FG9Hu8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9YMo-FOtjZCb4XxBxe9L8FG9Hu8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9YMo-FOtjZCb4XxBxe9L8FG9Hu8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=cQAZ6o3-kEI:kLWc809TnXs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=cQAZ6o3-kEI:kLWc809TnXs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=cQAZ6o3-kEI:kLWc809TnXs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=cQAZ6o3-kEI:kLWc809TnXs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=cQAZ6o3-kEI:kLWc809TnXs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest problems that stands between electric vehicles and becoming mainstream is limited battery life. But there has been some progress in that area lately: the Japan Electric Vehicle Club [JP], a civic group based in Tokyo, announced today a Mira EV customized by the group traveled exactly 1,003.184 kilometers without a recharge. 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