Published:
1 feb 2022 01:06 GMT
The entire six-day trip, from Los Angeles to New York, cost $76.82 in top-ups from Electrify America stations.
An electric Porsche Taycan broke the Guinness World Record for the shortest charge time to traverse the United States, from coast to coast, on less than two and a half hours of charging.
The car, driven by professional driver Wayne Gerdes, traveled some 4,561.68 kilometers, from Los Angeles to New York, spending only 2 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds stopped to recharge its battery throughout the six days that it lasted. the trip, which meant dethroning the Kia EV6, whose charging time was 7 hours, 10 minutes and 1 second.
The tour, which was completed on November 12, 2021 and only in the last few days it was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, it cost $76.82 in recharges from Electrify America stations. “Nowadays, I can’t cross the country in a gasoline or diesel vehicle for that small amount, and I’m driving an exotic high-performance sports car,” he pointed then Gerdes.
