Tesla World Record
The Tesla Roadster, owned by Adelaide-based Internode founder Simon Hackett with co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas, is believed to have set a world record for a production electric car for the longest distance travelled on a single charge.
Event organisers are awaiting confirmation of the long-distance feat, but Internode says the Tesla Roadster covered 501km – from Alice Spring to a marker 183km north of Coober Pedy – on a single charge of its all-electric drivetrain.
The Tesla Roadster is all-electric sportscar is capable of sprinting to 100km/h in just over four seconds and showed its considerable pace as part of the Clipsal 500’s Murray Walker Extreme Machines display earlier this year.
