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Pioneers of electric cars, Camille Jenatzy and his 68.5 mph Jamais Contente

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Camille Jenatzy set a new world land speed record of 68.8 mph in December of 1899 in this streamlined car weighing in at 1,450Kg.  The 100 kph barrier had been broken along with the Compte Chasseloup-Labatt's original land speed record set near Paris, France of 39.24 mph (63.13 kph).

Janetzy, one of the early record holders

Camille Jenatzy (1868 - 1913) was a Belgian race car driver.  Jenatzy is known for breaking the land speed record three times. On January 17, 1899 in Achères, France he achieved a speed of 66.66 km/h (41.42 MPH) over 1 kilometer, driving a CGA Dogcart. That same day the record was broken by Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, but ten days later on January 27 he achieved a speed of 80.35 km/h (49.93 MPH). This record was again broken by Chasseloup-Laubat, but Jenatzy set his third and final land speed record on April 29, reaching 105.88 km/h (65.79 MPH) in the CITA No 25 La Jamais Contente. This was the first record over 100 km/h.  See also, Andrew Riker's Electric Torpedo of 1901.

La Jamais Contente

He also won the 1903 Gordon Bennet Cup race in Athy, Ireland, driving a Mercedes. Jenatzy died in 1913 in a hunting accident. He went behind a bush and made animal noises as a prank on his friends who were hunting with him. It worked too well, they heard the noise and shot because they thought there was an animal there. When they realised it was Jenatzy they tried to rush him to hospital but he died on the way. This fulfilled his own prophesy that he would die in a Mercedes.

La Jamais Contente (replica)

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