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The First Record Breakers 2/7: The First Car to Go 100 km/h Wasn't Powered by Petrol. It Was Electric (1899)
The First Record Breakers, Episode 2 of 7. In 1899 no car on Earth had ever gone faster than 100 kilometres an hour. Two men near Paris were racing to be the first: a French count and a red-bearded Belgian engineer called Camille Jenatzy, nicknamed the Red Devil. In four months they set the world speed record six times between them. Then Jenatzy built a bullet-shaped car called La Jamais Contente, the Never Satisfied, and on 29 April 1899 it reached 105.88 km/h. The surprise: it ran on batteries. The true story of the first car faster than 100 km/h: who built it, why, and how.
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