Japan's Aspark Builds World's Fastest Electric Supercar
TapTechNews June 13th news, Japanese car manufacturer and engineering company Aspark has teamed up with Italian company Manifattura Automobili Torino to upgrade and build its Owl electric supercar. The new car reached a staggering speed of nearly 439 kilometers per hour on a test track in Germany, becoming the fastest electric vehicle in the world today.
Aspark, based in Osaka and established for nearly 20 years, has been committed to the research and development of Owl, this unique supercar. In 2013, Aspark used its prototype to conduct a 0-100 kilometers per hour acceleration test to test the performance of Owl, and finally achieved an excellent result of 1.9 seconds.
The limited-production Owl has always held the title of one of the most expensive electric vehicles in the world, with a price tag of 2.9 million euros (TapTechNews note: currently about 22.723 million Chinese yuan), until last summer when Pininfarina launched the convertible Barchetta electric vehicle (priced at 4.4 million euros) which surpassed it.
The original version of Aspark Owl was produced in limited quantities in Italy, with a powerful 1980 horsepower and 1920 Newton-meters of torque, as well as a range of 400 kilometers. Owl not only gallops in Europe but also landed in the Japanese and American markets, and with its excellent performance won two Guinness World Records: the fastest to complete an eighth-mile acceleration race (average speed 309.02 kilometers per hour) and the fastest to complete a quarter-mile acceleration race (average speed 318.85 kilometers per hour).
This time, Aspark released an upgraded version named OWL SP600, and with a top speed of 438.7 kilometers per hour, declaring it to be the world's fastest electric vehicle.
In order to prove its powerful performance, Aspark, together with its partner Manifattura Automobili Torino, recorded the track test process. The latter was responsible for manufacturing this unique electric supercar in Italy.
According to Aspark, OWL SP600 is an 'evolution version of the first-generation Owl' and is equipped with Pirelli custom Potenza Race tires. To achieve the speed record, Aspark conducted strict aerodynamic verification in the wind tunnel and hired Marc Basseng, the champion of the 24-hour Nürburgring endurance race, to conduct several days of track tests.
On June 8th, 2024, Aspark OWL SP600 reached a top speed of nearly 439 kilometers per hour at the Papenburg Automobile Test Center (ATP) in Germany, and this speed record was verified by the high-precision GPS measurement equipment Racelogic V-Box provided by ATP.
Before creating the record, Aspark said that OWL SP600 had already run at high speeds of 420.8 kilometers per hour and 430 kilometers per hour many times.