Hey, the current flying mile LSR at Bonneville is 245.523 mph for an electric car.
It used a LOT of nasty un-PC Ni-Cad cells.
http://www.speedace.info/white_lightning.htm
BTW, the driver, Pat Rummerfield, was a quadrapeligic in early adulthood.
Now if they can just get it to do that 200 times in a oval........