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.
Taycan 4S Cross Turismo, Eagle Mine, Michigan, 2022, Porsche AGPorsche Newsroom
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 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."
