World Record Distance (501km) drive in a production Electric Vehicle (Tesla Roadster)
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Simon Hackett, Managing Director of Australian national broadband company Internode, who owns the only Roadster in Australia, has driven it with with co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas, to a distance of 501 kms (313 miles) on a single charge.
The world record-setting distance for a production electric car on a single charge was achieved as part of the Global Green Challenge (http://www.globalgreenchallenge.com.au).
There is much more information about the event and our experiences crossing the outback with this car, here:
http://blog.internode.on.net/category/events/global-green-challenge/page/4/
(and yes, we figured out after we made the video that the caption says 'Global Green Challenge 2010' - its actually meant to be 'Global Green Challenge 2009' ! )
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