BBC , 06 September 2012

Electric car UK speed record bid at Elvington Airfield

A battery-powered car will attempt to beat the UK land-speed record for electric vehicles later this month.

Nemesis, a heavily-modified Lotus Exige body, will be driven by estate agent Nick Ponting, 21, from Gloucester.

Dale Vince said he had built the car to "smash the stereotype of electric cars as something Noddy would drive - slow, boring, not cool".

The record attempt is due to be made at Elvington Airfield, near York, on 27 September.

Nemesis was designed and built in under two years by a team of British motorsport engineers in Norfolk.

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