In September of 2007, a small class of electric cars called "Electrathons" were invited for the first time, to compete in the  "World of Speed" event at the Bonneville Salt flats in Utah.

NEW! Photo Album: How big is this electric streamliner? Detailed pictures and captions are in the album below.

See the video (26mb) of our 2007 World Record run at Bonneville Salt Flats. Or view the (9mb)version.

Video (11.5mb) of 2004 streamliner configuration.

Two electric streamliners were eagerly trailered hundreds of miles to this event to find out how fast they could possibly go. Our cars and teams received a warm welcome form the gas guzzling regulars. The inspectors were race officials who used a formal "Electrathon America" vehicle inspection checklist and the vehicle design rules booklet as a part of their inspection. The Electrathon America vehicle design rules offer a well written classification standard and makes a top speed even more challenging by limiting the vehicles power.

Both streamliners topped out extremely close to each other attaining maximum speeds of 89.4MPH (red Destiny Car from Oregon) and 87.6MPH (green car) from Washington. Top speeds were measured by a speed trap at the end of the one mile mark. A short half mile straightaway was used for decelerating before turning out to the return road.

We used the Electrathon America design rules as a "classification" of vehicle and ran them on a straight track with official timing equipment to see what top speed they could achieve.  It is important to note that Electrathon America competitions (what the car was designed for) are quite different. They are one hour-long, enclosed-course efficiency races. The winner of an Electrathon race is determined by which car travels the farthest (usually measured by laps counted) in that time on a single charge. As you can imagine to compete well in Electrathon races, an efficient vehicle and power management strategy is important to travel the farthest. Attempting to travel "as fast as they could go" (as we did at Bonneville) during an Electrathon race would be very inefficient. The exponential increase of energy consumption due to aerodynamic and other drag forces would decrease its range capability over the 60 minute race. The current distance/speed record for a sanctioned Electrathon America event is 53.16 miles total distance. Thus 53.16MPH average speed for 60 minutes! This record is held by friend and driver Michael Lewis of Team Electrolite.

Our red DESTINY race car was designed and built to race in Sanctioned Electrathon America races and compete for that mid 50's MPH record.  At those races it meets all vehicle design rules. At the Bonneville Salt Flats we made a conscience decision to run without the required rear view mirrors because they serve no purpose. Only one car runs down the straight track at a time. The Electrathon America Event Rules declare that a race host can make such decisions with regard to exceptions.