{"id":746860,"date":"2022-01-12T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-electric-porsche-breaks-world-record-with-mine-to-mountain-drive\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:47:25","slug":"watch-electric-porsche-breaks-world-record-with-mine-to-mountain-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-electric-porsche-breaks-world-record-with-mine-to-mountain-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Electric Porsche breaks world record with mine-to-mountain drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Electric-Porsche-breaks-world-record-with-mine-to-mountain-drive.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dTWxzf82iVc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Journey to Pikes Peak: Guinness World Record set in Taycan Cross Turismo\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dTWxzf82iVc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 12 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An all-electric Porsche took an unusual route that started in a mine and ended on a mountain to break the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude change ever achieved by an electric car.<\/p>\n<p>The German automaker said the Taycan Cross Turismo started its journey at a depth of 1,774 feet below sea level at Eagle Mine in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula and used a ramp designed for mining equipment to return to the surface before crossing six states to the summit of Colorado&#8217;s Pikes Peak, at an altitude of 14,115 feet.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 33-hour, 48-minute journey broke a Guinness World Record by gaining an altitude of 15,889 feet &#8212; just over 3 miles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It started as a &#8216;what if?&#8217; &#8212; a passion project, mixing our love for cars and travel and taking it to extremes,&#8221; creative producer J.F. Musial, who led the record attempt, said in a statement. &#8220;We wanted to drive from the lowest point in America to one of the highest, Pikes Peak &#8212; where we&#8217;ve spent countless hours filming the famous hill climb. The project relied on a lot of goodwill, and a car that&#8217;s pretty much unique in its mix of abilities.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 12 (UPI) &#8212; An all-electric Porsche took an unusual route that started in a mine and ended on a mountain to break the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude change ever achieved by an electric car. The German automaker said the Taycan Cross Turismo started its journey at a depth of 1,774 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}