While last week’s festival of speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats could have been more successful for Richard Losee’s twin-turbo Ferrari phoenix, everything went well for the Venturi Buckeye Bullet. Looking like a cross between a F-102 and a 500 Series Shinkansen bullet train, the battery-powered VBB2.5, as its team calls it, cracked off a top speed of 320 miles per hour and a two-way average of 308 mph. Co-created by by Ohio State University’s Center for Auto Research and French electric-car maker Venturi, the VBB2.5 was, as the name implies, a modified version of the group’s second Buckeye Bullet; that car, known as the VBB2, set the world speed record for hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles last year with a two-way average top speed of 303 mph. The team isn’t stopping while they’re ahead, though; the data collected from the VBB2.5′s run will be used to build the VBB3, which looks like what you’d get if you cross-bred a SR-71 and the Stig. [via Popular Science]