307 miles per hour in a minute. but that is a land speed record. >> this vehicle called the buckeye bullet, in 2007, they had it going 200 miles per hour. if i were making an electric car, i would be quite proud of that. but they kept on going. they tweaked this little guy to get to 223 miles per hour in october of 2007. so just a couple months later. but they kept on going with this thing. by september of 2009, a year ago, 302 miles per hour. this thing is doing crazy stuff to me. and they kept on going. and now in august of 2010, a year later, look at that, 307 miles per hour. why do we need this? well, let's talk to a guy who actually knows about this. he is at the ohio state university. his name is georgio ritzoni, director for the center of automotive research, and he is going to tell us about this. georgio, thank you for being with us. we really appreciate this. tell me why it matters that we have a car, an electric car,