Radical electric car does 250 miles on single charge

A team of students from Imperial College has driven an electric car around the M25 twice on a single charge.

The modified Radical SR8 ZERO car took to the road in the early hours of Friday morning to avoid congestion and completed 250 miles without needing to be recharged.

The Racing Green Endurance (RGE) car will later this summer attempt to become the first electric vehicle to conquer the 16,000-mile-long Pan American Highway.

The car has a top speed of 125mph and takes six hours to recharge its batteries. Buying the electricity on EDF’s Green night tariff, the car costs a penny a mile to run.