Aspark Owl Hits 272.6mph, Unofficially Becomes World’s Fastest Electric Road Car

It seems the Rimac Nevera may finally be being dethroned as the most mind-boggling electric car out there. A contender from Japan has been in the works and now the company behind it has put out a rather large claim of it being the world’s fastest electric car, with evidence to back it up.

If you’re not familiar with the Aspark Owl, we don’t blame you. It emerged in 2017 with the claims of a sub-two-second 0-62mph time courtesy of a dual-motor setup. That was proven in 2018, albeit crucially running racing slick tyres, before appearing to fall into obscurity.

Seemingly though, this owl had just been hibernating and now Aspark has shown the car hitting a top speed of 438.73kmh (272.6mph) to make it the world’s fastest EV, unofficially anyway. We say that because this record has not been verified by Guinness, which as we know is the final word on such things.

It’s hard to argue much with the evidence, though, unlike say the controversy surrounding *that* SSC Tuatara run. Aspark has released footage of the run with that speed clearly seen as recorded by a Racelogic V-Box GPS measuring device.

That’s still a little shy of the world’s fastest car as verified by Racelogic, the Koenigsegg Agera RS at 277.87mph (forget the Chiron Super Sport 300+, as there’s no two-way run as needed for these things).

However, it’s quite comfortably ahead of the Nevera which has previously managed a ‘measly’ 256mph. We’re doubtful Rimac is in a rush to respond to that though, as it sounds like its future could move away from electric cars entirely.

There is the caveat that the Aspark Owl isn’t yet a production car, and it’s not quite clear when that’ll change. However, that top speed will surely pull in a few curious billionaires.