A week before the fires, an exceptional heatwave affected southeastern Australia. From 28â30 January, Melbourne broke records by sweltering through three consecutive days above 43 Â°C (109 Â°F), with the temperature peaking at 45.1 Â°C (113.2 Â°F) on 30 January, the third hottest day in the city's history.he fire broke out of the park around 4:00 pm, and by 6:00 pm had burnt out 2,400 hectares (5,900 acres) of forest and farmland, threatening the towns of Labertouche, Tonimbuk, Jindivick, Drouin, and Longwarry, and embers were starting spot fires up to 20 km (12 mi) to the south.
Bugatti claims a spleen-bursting sub-2.5-second blast from zero to 100kph (62mph), or 13.5 seconds from zero to 300kph (186mph). With the speed limiter disabled â as Bugatti will do when it attempts a world-record attempt on Volkswagen's enormous Ehra-Lessien test track â the Chiron will likely pierce the 270mph mark.
âItâs not going to happen in a year from now. Itâs going to be hard. But I think we can get down to five to 10 minutes,â Straubel said in an interview with MIT Technology Review. He noted that the current superchargers, which deliver 120 kilowatts of electricity, âseemed pretty crazy even 10 years ago.â