Electric Car Breaks Land-Speed Record.

Electric cars are touted as eco-friendly, but many people still think the vehicles aren't powerful or fast enough to satisfy the muscle-car crowd. Ecotricity, an energy company in the U.K., aims to change that with the Nemesis, an electric car that topped 151 miles per hour on Thursday.
Ecotricity's team of engineers rebuilt a second-hand Lotus. The result was a car that not only broke a land-speed record for electric cars, but traveled 150 miles on a single charge. Consumer electric vehicles such as Nissan's Leaf, for comparison, can reach about 110 miles. The previous land-speed record was set in 2000 in a Bluebird Electric vehicle.
The electric car market isn't devoid of speed; the Tesla Roadster can hit 125 miles per hour and has a 245-mile battery range, and can go from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. But the high-performance (read: speed and horsepower) electric car hasn't hit primetime yet.
Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity, said publicly that the reason for attempting the record was to show that electric cars could be fast, powerful and even fun to drive. On Ecotricity's Web site, Vince says: "[The Nemesis is] a car to smash the stereotype of looking like something Noddy would drive. An out-and-out desirable sports car, capable of combustion engine-beating speeds and able to do 100 to 150 miles on one ‘tank’. All with zero emissions. Cake and eat it stuff."