The Buckeye Bullet is a series of four experimental electric cars created by students from Ohio State University (a.k.a. the Buckeyes) as a joint project with Venturi. The cars were designed to break the land speed record on the Bonneville Speedway, a salt flat just outside Wendover, Utah, United States. The team first achieved its goal in October 2004, at 271.737 mph for the one mile world record, repeatedly increasing the record until setting a mile world record of 307.666 mph, in 2009, and a one kilometer world record of 341.264 mph, in 2016.
The VBB's have also been called the Venturi "Jamais Contente", referencing the first electrically powered vehicle to top 100 km/h.[1]
Buckeye Bullet Team
The Buckeye Bullet team is composed of students from Ohio State University, primarily through the College of Engineering. Led by Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni, the team is provided research space from the Center of Automotive Research at the university.
Vehicles
All Buckeye Bullet vehicles have been electrically powered, with power coming from either batteries or hydrogen fuel cells.
Buckeye Bullet 1
The Buckeye Bullet 1 is a battery electric powered land speed race car, and the first from the Buckeye Bullet team.
The Buckeye Bullet 1 held the record for the world's fastest electric car, with a top recorded speed of 321.834 mph. It held the U.S. electric land speed record at 314.958 mph (Class III/E). It set a BNI (non-FIA) recognized international record at 271.737 mph on October 3, 2004.
Vehicle properties
Team
The 2004 Buckeye Bullet team members from Ohio State are team leaders Isaac S. Harper, Andrew L. Marquand, and Benjamin J. Sinsheimer; team members Kevin C. Sze, Sean M. MacGregor, Aaron M. Haliena, Joseph H. Gorse, Andrea J. Barger, Michael B. Quade, Kimberly A. Stevens and Kevin Ponziani; faculty adviser Giorgio Rizzoni, staff adviser Maria Soliman, and the vehicle's driver, Roger Schroer of TRC, Inc.[3]
- Power source: 10,000 rechargeable c-cell batteries
See also
- List of vehicle speed records
External links
References
- the challenge: LAND speed records PROGRAM (Archived copy) en.vbb3.venturi.fr, retrieved 2013-05-12^
- FIA Records List Federation Internationale de L'automobile, retrieved 2011-01-04^
- DEBORAH PRYCE. RECOGNIZING THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY’S 2004 BUCKEYE BULLET TEAM