---
title: "Watch This 700-HP Electric Chevy Corvette Blast from 0 to 190 MPH in One Mile"
description: "Generation's battery-powered Corvette sets yet another record for electric cars."
date: "2017-02-26"
modified: "2017-02-26"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/7905/watch-this-700-hp-electric-chevy-corvette-blast-from-0-to-190-mph-in-one-mile"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Chevrolet News"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
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  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "c6"
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Corvette"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "EV"
  - "Genovation"
  - "GXE"
  - "z06"
---

# Watch This 700-HP Electric Chevy Corvette Blast from 0 to 190 MPH in One Mile

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/02/genovation-gxe-electric-corvette-190-standing-mile.jpg>)
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We tend to drive whenever we catch a glimpse of Genovation Cars's electric Corvette prototype flying down a runway. It's not just the sheer thrill of watching a 600-plus horsepower wedge of (very untraditionally) tuned General Motors sheetmetal race towards the double-century mark; it's *hearing* it go. With no screaming smallblock beneath the hood to blast out a battle cry, the only sound the Genovation Corvette—based on a C6-generation Corvette Z06, but [packing enough batteries and electric motors to make as much as 700 horsepower](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/2458/electric-corvette-obliterates-speed-record-at-kennedy-space-center>)— makes as it screams by is a Doppler-shifted shriek of upset air that sounds like nothing so much as a jet fighter making a low flyby.

So sure, we could say that seeing this [electric Corvette go from a standing stop to 190.4 miles per hour in just one mile](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umsFEQkeP28>) of runway isn't as impressive as seeing the same[ GXE prototype set an electric car top speed record of 206 miles per hour](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4673/watch-this-electric-corvette-set-a-new-world-record-at-206-mph>). Or say that, cool as this prototype is, it doesn't satisfy our itch to meet [Genovation's production-bound, 660-horsepower, electric C7 Corvette Grand Sport](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5560/this-660-hp-electric-corvette-will-run-you-750-000>).

But we'd much rather just watch it fly.

https://youtube.com/embed/umsFEQkeP28

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
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