Electric Vehicle Equipped with LG Energy Solution Sets Guinness World Record for Highest Altitude Driving

The electric vehicle ID.4 GTX equipped with LG Energy Solution batteries successfully drove on Uturunco Mountain in Bolivia, at an altitude of 5,816 meters above sea level, setting a new Guinness World Record for the "highest altitude electric vehicle drive."

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jung] An electric vehicle equipped with an LG Energy Solution battery has set a Guinness World Record for the 'highest altitude driven electric vehicle' in the world.

According to LG Energy Solution on the 24th, the Volkswagen ID.4 GTX successfully drove on the Bolivian dormant volcano 'Uturuncu,' which reaches an altitude of 5,816 meters above sea level, on the 18th (local time), becoming the electric vehicle that has driven at the highest altitude in the world. This vehicle is equipped with LG Energy Solution's high-capacity, high-performance 77 kWh battery, capable of driving approximately 480 km on a single charge.

This Guinness World Record challenge was a project carried out by the 'Challenge4 Team,' founded by long-distance specialist driver Rainer Zietlow, to demonstrate the safety and performance of electric vehicles and to increase consumer trust. The Challenge4 Team also holds the Guinness record for the 'longest distance driven by an electric vehicle in a single country,' having successfully crossed all 48 states of the U.S. covering 56,000 km last year.

Rainer Zietlow stated, "Our goal is to showcase electric vehicles performing at their best even in extreme environments, thereby revealing their potential to people."

The primary contributor to this Guinness World Record achievement is LG Energy Solution's battery. Generally, vehicles experience reduced fuel efficiency and performance when driving at high altitudes due to low air pressure and temperature, so a battery with durability and safety that can maintain high performance even under extreme conditions is essential.

LG Energy Solution said, "We congratulate Zietlow and the Challenge4 Team for setting the Guinness World Record," adding, "Through this Guinness World Record, we were able to confirm the strength of LG Energy Solution batteries, which demonstrated excellent performance even in harsh environments."

Meanwhile, LG Energy Solution and Volkswagen have been jointly developing Volkswagen's electric vehicle modular platform, the MEB platform, since 2016, striving to realize high-performance batteries through optimization.

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