Genovation Cars posts another milestone achieved with its GXE electric supercar based on the C7 Corvette Grand Sport chassis: 340.86 km/h, or 211.8 mph. This is the fastest speed ever attained by a road-legal fully electric car.
The U.S.-based company has been using the Kennedy Space Center runway as EV test grounds for several years now, ever since it built the first GXE Concept. Sometime before, it has already hit 338.28 km/h (210.2 mph) with a prototype, but the end goal lies at 354 km/h (220 mph), so there’s still stuff left to improve.
The pre-production Genovation GXE premiered at the CES show in Las-Vegas early this year. It had two electric motors jointly rated at 800 hp (596 kW) and 949 Nm (700 lb-ft) of torque instead of the 6.2 Chevrolet V8. It also packed a five-piece 61.6-kWh traction battery evenly distributed throughout the car body for optimum weight balance. The dual motors relied on an eight-speed auto transmission to send the power to the wheels, but a seven-speed manual gearbox was also reported as available.
The company has been taking pre-orders for the Genovation GXE over the past two years. The production run will be limited to 75 units priced at 750,000 USD, plus the cost of the Corvette donor vehicle. The shipments had been originally planned for 4Q 2019, but it looks like there’s a delay.
Modern electric cars accelerate much faster than most conventional IC-powered cars, but lack in maximum speed. For instance, the forthcoming Rimac C_Two hypercar packs an extremely powerful electric powertrain rated at 1,914 hp (1,427 kW), but still cannot get to 412 km/h (256 mph). In the meantime, the gas-powered Bugatti Chiron Super Sport with its 1,600 hp (1,193 kW) has already hit 490 km/h (304 mph).