{"id":245130,"date":"2026-10-09T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hydrogen-powered-rocket-car-tops-400-mph-in-record-breaking-test-video"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:07:58","slug":"hydrogen-powered-rocket-car-tops-400-mph-in-record-breaking-test-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hydrogen-powered-rocket-car-tops-400-mph-in-record-breaking-test-video","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen-powered \u2018rocket car\u2019 tops 400 mph in record-breaking test (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-powered-rocket-car-tops-400-mph-in-record-breaking-test-video.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the fastest that any car with a hydrogen internal combustion engine has traveled. \u201cIt was an amazing experience,\u201d Green told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> on Aug. 12 about his record-breaking drives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything above about 350 miles an hour [563 kph], we\u2019d have gone away really pleased,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is performing better. It was more reliable than we expected, and it has blown away the hydrogen record. It\u2019s in every way a real thrill for all of us yesterday to see that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green is no stranger to breaking records. In 1997, he drove a jet-powered car 763.035 mph (1,227.985 kph, or Mach 1.02), setting a new land speed record while also becoming the first person to break the sound barrier on land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the fastest that any car with a hydrogen internal combustion engine has traveled. \u201cIt was an amazing experience,\u201d Green told Space.com on Aug. 12 about his record-breaking drives. \u201cAnything above about 350 miles an hour [563 kph], we\u2019d have gone away really pleased,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is performing better. It was more reliable than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}