{"id":27267,"date":"2025-08-26T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:59:47","slug":"mercedes-amg-sets-new-ev-record-covering-40000-kilometers-in-8-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/mercedes-amg-sets-new-ev-record-covering-40000-kilometers-in-8-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-AMG Sets New EV Record, Covering 40,000 Kilometers in 8 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the number of electric cars increases, so do attempts to break new records. For example, Xiaomi&#8217;s EV recently set a new record for the fastest electric car at the N\u00fcrburgring circuit. Now, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/tag\/mercedes-benz-electric-car-news\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"163\">Mercedes<\/a><\/em>-AMG<\/strong>, a company working on a new EV architecture, has broken some records of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German automotive giant made headlines with its <strong>&#8220;AMG GT XX&#8221;<\/strong> electric concept car, which traveled an incredible <strong>40,000 kilometers in just under 8 days<\/strong>. This feat was accomplished at the Nard\u00f2 test track in Italy with a team of <strong>17 drivers<\/strong>, including F1 pilot George Russell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a091b2bed6718400e142525589ef1f15da3dfe07.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a091b2bed6718400e142525589ef1f15da3dfe07.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a091b2bed6718400e142525589ef1f15da3dfe07-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a091b2bed6718400e142525589ef1f15da3dfe07-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a091b2bed6718400e142525589ef1f15da3dfe07-150x100.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Mercedes-AMG GT XX concept cars used in the attempt completed the journey in <strong>7 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes, and 7 seconds<\/strong>. The vehicles maintained a speed of around <strong>300 km\/h<\/strong> and only stopped to recharge. In total, the cars broke <strong>25 different electric vehicle world records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most notable record was for the longest distance covered in a 24-hour period. The AMG GT XX managed to travel <strong>5,479 kilometers in 24 hours<\/strong>, setting a new world record for an electric vehicle in this category. It&#8217;s also worth noting that the car generates <strong>1,360 horsepower<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Might Also Like;<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the number of electric cars increases, so do attempts to break new records. For example, Xiaomi&#8217;s EV recently set a new record for the fastest electric car at the N\u00fcrburgring circuit. Now, Mercedes-AMG, a company working on a new EV architecture, has broken some records of its own. The German automotive giant made headlines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-27267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-futurescience","tag-future-mobility"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}