Students from the Ohio State University Roger Schroer drove the Buckeye Bullet 2.5, which averaged 307.7 miles per hour in back-to-back runs on Utah ’s Bonneville Salt Flats . The Buckeye Bullet 2.5 defeated the previous international land speed world record of 245.5 mph, which was set in 1999.Roger Schroer has worked at TRC for 26 years as a test and development high performance driver, and this is Schroer’s third time returning from the Bonneville Salt Flats with a world record in the Ohio State University
The Bullet, built by student engineers at CAR, with help from Monaco-based electric vehicle manufacturer Venturi, started its run for the record on August 23. Schroer hit a new record of 291 mph, then topped it on August 24 when he averaged 307.7 mph.
The Buckeye Bullet 2.5 is a modified version of the Buckeye Bullet 2, a hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle, which owns the record for its propulsion class, attaining an average speed of 302.9 m.p.h. in 2009. The major modification for the 2.5 was the removal of the Ballard fuel cells, which were replaced with A123 batteries. The purpose of the Buckeye Bullet 2.5 was to provide a testing platform for systems that will be used in the Buckeye Bullet 3.
Significant changes and upgrades are already planned for the Buckeye Bullet 3, based on nearly a decade of design and racing of land speed vehicles. The Ohio State
You can learn more about the Buckeye Bullet by visiting: http://www.buckeyebullet.com/.
