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WIRED NextFest Report: Ohio State's 300+ mph electric car

The very first exhibit just beyond the turnstiles at WIRED's NextFest was Ohio State's 31-foot long, 2-foot wide electric car named the Buckeye Bullet. Its claim to fame: the fastest electric car in the world. In May 2000, a group of engineering students at Ohio State began building an electric land speed record car and spawned what became know as the Buckeye Bullet project. Since 2002, they had been making routine trips to the famed Bonneville Salt Flats to take a crack at the electric land speed record. The only difference now is that the ... Read more →

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