SIX WORLD RECORDS HAVE BEEN BROKEN by an electrically-driven Opel GT 1900 which was rim by the manufacturers at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany recently. But the Opel company says Hie cost and weight of the batteries necessary is still much too high for a practical production vehicle. The car recorded more than 116 m.p.h. through the flying-start kilometre (fiveeighths of a mile) at the circuit.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32660, 16 July 1971, Page 7
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66SIX WORLD RECORDS HAVE BEEN BROKEN by an electrically-driven Opel GT 1900 which was rim by the manufacturers at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany recently. But the Opel company says Hie cost and weight of the batteries necessary is still much too high for a practical production vehicle. The car recorded more than 116 m.p.h. through the flying-start kilometre (fiveeighths of a mile) at the circuit. Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32660, 16 July 1971, Page 7
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