126mph Wind Powered Vehicle Smashes World Record

A couple of days ago a British engineer, Richard Jenkins, smashed the wind-powered speed record in his Ecotricity Greenbird. The low-lying vehicle, with its towering solid fin instead of a sail, managed to get up to a speed of 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h) on the dry lake Ivanpah in Nevada. It was 10 mph faster than the previous record set by Bob Schumacher in the Iron Duck in March 1999 at the same location.

Watch Jenkins speeding into the record book below: