Record-breaking electric car returns to OSU today

Ohio State University's Buckeye Bullet electric car, which broke the record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle on Saturday (10/18) in Utah, will return at 6 p.m. today (10/20) at the Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation (CAR-IT), 930 Kinnear Rd. Team members will be on hand to celebrate the record-breaking achievement.

The vehicle, which was designed, built and managed by a team of engineering students at the CAR-IT, is returning via trailer from Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

To break the national speed record, the Buckeye Bullet completed two certified runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats where it reached speeds averaging 257 mph. For the first of the two runs, the car was clocked at 271 mph. The former national record was 251.3 mph.

The streamlined vehicle is 30 feet long, two feet wide and stands less than three feet tall; the 500
horsepower electric motor is powered by more than 12,000 nickel-metal hydride batteries.

While most of the 12 student team members returned to the university on Sunday (10/19), three students who are driving the vehicle back from Utah will return today.

WHAT: Buckeye Bullet team members will reunite as their record-setting vehicle returns from Utah.

WHEN: 6 p.m today (10/20).

WHERE: Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation, 930 Kinnear Road

WHY: The Buckeye Bullet team broke a national speed record on Saturday (10/18).