The British team trying to break the world record for electric-car speed has given up for now, after a series of electrical glitches and weather troubles undermined its efforts.

Mark Newby and Colin Fallows had hoped their heavy, 52-battery electric car, “e=motion,” would reach speeds higher than 300 mph on a stretch of Nevada highway.

The standing record is 245 mph for electric cars weighing more than 2,200 pounds that start from a dead stop, although a team from Ohio State University got to 314.8 mph last year with a push start.

Battery problems and high winds delayed attempts to break the record on Thursday, and again on Friday. The drive controller was replaced. But a circuit board sparked out Saturday, and the team called Prime Time abandoned its final attempt.

It’s a loss for electric-car fans, who had hoped that a new record would boost the twice-spurned technology. Electric cars were invented in the 19th century, but cheaper gasoline cars and low gasoline prices made them obsolete by the 1930s.