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Drive it if you dare.

“An electric streamliner designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class [1,100 lbs.], averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was clocked at 175 mph.”

It weighs 440 lbs., holds one person, and is completely electric. The solar-paneled hanger comes with the plane.

The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle in Japan can now send power back into a house. They say it’ll power a Japanese house for two days (which probably translates to 12 hours for power-hungry US homes.) But still. This is amazing…

CleanTechnica has the details.