The team’s Sunswift 7 solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) won the Guiness World Record for “Fastest EV over 1000km on a single charge.”“It feels very weird to think that we’ve helped to make something that’s the best in the entire world,” Sunswift Team Manager and UNSW Sydney mechanical engineering student Andrea Holden said in a UNSW press release.During that trip, the car traveled an average of nearly 85 kilometers per hour (approximately 53 miles per hour) over a distance longer than a drive between Sydney and Melbourne.“Two years ago, when we started to build this car, everything was going into lockdown and there were a lot of difficult moments,” Holden said in the press release.A team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany earned a Guinness World Record for building an EV that accelerated from zero to 100 kilometers per hour (approximately 62 miles per hour) in 1.461 seconds on 23 September 2022.Hopkins said the Sunswift 7 only used 3.8 kilowatt hours of energy for 100 kilometers during the record drive, which is about a quarter of the energy used by the most efficient EVs on the market today."