If you had asked James Wolfcale what he wanted to do with his life after he began formulating words, he would have told he wanted to be a race car driver. He fell a bit short on that front, but car ...

Spill a little water in your salt shaker, and the salt quickly becomes clumpy and useless. Wet salt isn't all that useful in land speed record racing, either. Wet conditions and bad weather shut down ...

VBB is short for Venturi Buckeye Bullet, the name signifying a technology partnership with Ohio State University. On Wednesday, Venturi with its VBB-3 set a land speed record for electric cars, ...

The Venturi Buckeye Bullet-3 combines two things we love here at Ars Technica: land speed records and electric vehicles. It’s a collaboration between Venturi—a Monegasque electric car company—and the ...

French manufacturer Venturi Automobiles is no stranger to the world of high-speed electric vehicles. The company's ongoing collaboration with Ohio State University saw the Buckeye Bullet 2.5 set the ...

At Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, a new arrival is gearing up to break records on the legendary speedway. The VBB-3 is the collaborative project of Venturi Automobiles and student engineers at Ohio ...

The Venturi VBB-3 has claimed a new land speed record for an electric vehicle after setting an average flying mile at the Bonneville salt flats of 341.1 mph (549.43 km/h). The Monaco based company ...

French company Venturi topped the world land-speed record for an electric car over 3.5 metric tons at the Bonneville Salt Flats this month. The VBB-3 hit an average of 212 mph and a top speed of 270 ...