MARQUETTE COUNTY (WWJ) -- A little bit of Michigan is part of a grand achievement.
The Porsche Taycan Cross Tourismo has set a Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude change achieved by an electric car, and it all started within an Upper Peninsula mine.
A team of nine drivers started from the bottom of Eagle Mine in Marquette County. The team drove 36 hours from the mine -- about 30 miles northwest of the city of Marquette and 10 miles southwest of Lake Superior -- to the summit at Pike's Peak in Colorado.
The video of the record-breaking feat
The elevation change was over 15,000 feet -- almost three miles.
A video of the event shows the car bolt out of Eagle Mine and buzz down a U.P. highway -- two lanes lined by evergreens covered with a lot of snow. A driver can be heard saying, "This part of the country is really, really beautiful."