General Motors charged out of left field this week to announce a new world record, and it's a properly astonishing feat. An engineering team within the Detroit automotive giant managed to push the single-charge EV range record into triple digits,

The current Guinness World Record for longest EV drive on a single charge is held by Lucid Motors, for a 749-mile journey made by the company’s Air Grand Touring sedan. Lucid grabbed the title from a Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+, which traveled 649 miles.

GM said it was important to set a record only after optimizing the vehicle in ways real customers could replicate at home.