John Peeters, holder of over 60 race-boat records, at the helm. Woody Marshall. Big Bird will be familiar to racing fans as the vessel, built by legend Ed Karelsen, which won many races powered by gas ...

Don Garlits sets a new record for the fastest all-electric dragster, running the quarter-mile in 7.26 seconds at 184 mph. ... and the SR-37 dragster ended up in a sand trap at the end of the strip.

Last June, he flew the Helios Horizon plane 16,300 feet over Lake Tahoe, breaking the world altitude record for an electric plane weighing less than 500 kilograms, or about 1,100 pounds.