% 2h+47min= 167min, 167min/60min= 2.783h, 13.7mi / 2.783h= 4.92 mph %
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/11/04/battery-powered-train-built-by-students-runs-13-7-miles/ Battery-Powered Train Built by Students Runs 13.7 Miles Nov 4, 2015 Jun Hongo [image / Kawagoe Technical High School http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-LC067_jtrain_G_20151103232746.jpg Students from Kawagoe Technical High School pose for a photo with their battery-powered train car tweets http://twitter.com/Panasonic_cp/status/661090668568162305/photo/1 Panasonic Japan @Panasonic_cp http://goo.gl/qEi4dI 12:01 AM - 2 Nov 2015 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSyqdUvUAAA9336.jpg (Twitter image) https://twitter.com/KTHS_Train_2015/status/661455821373501440/photo/1 2015 @KTHS_Train_2015 12:12 AM - 3 Nov 2015 ] A battery-powered train car built by high-school students in Japan set what they said was a world record on Tuesday after running over 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) using only type D batteries. According to an official at Kawagoe Technical High School in Saitama prefecture, the train car used 600 D batteries for its power and weighed about 1.1 ton, excluding the several people who were aboard during the challenge. It departed from Maego station in Akita prefecture and traveled 22.615 kilometers in 2 hours and 47 minutes. The project was conducted together with Panasonic Corp., which had succeeded in operating a battery-powered train car last year that ran for 8.5 kilometers. The school official said there weren’t any previous distance records for such trains. “The students had been working on an electric car train for years, but it was their first time testing it on an actual railway, which was a huge challenge,” the school official said. [© 2015 Dow Jones] ... http://panasonic.jp/battery/drycell/evolta/challenge/2015/ ＊“Longest distance traveled by a vehicle on a railway track powered by dry cell batteries” 20151103 http://panasonic.jp/battery/drycell/evolta/challenge/2015/img/success_photo.jpg ... http://news.panasonic.com/jp/topics/2015/44398.html#.Vjm1LSkYLEI.twitter Panasonic Newsroom Japan ... [image http://news.panasonic.com/jp/topics/items/NRR2015140565_2.jpg (d cells) ] ... http://www.kawagoe-th.spec.ed.jp/ Kawagoe technical highschool ... [dated] http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201410270068 All aboard! Rail-enthusiast students build private rail line October 27, 2014 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Kawagoe-TechHS-jp-Students-e-Train-Runs-13-7Mi-5mph-on-600-D-cells-tp4678536.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
