WORRIED about running out of battery in your electric car?

Not in this modded BMW which has just smashed the record for the longest range of a plug-in car.

3 BMW cost less than £10,000 to build with recycled parts Credit: Joseph Mohney

Built for just £10,000, the old 5 Series completed 1,600kms (994 miles) at the Auto Club Speedway of California this week on a single charge to break the record.

When you consider the Tesla has a range of around 300 miles and costs upwards of £50,000 that's a pretty decent effort.

A cheaper Nissan Leaf will give you around 100 miles before you need to plug it in.

Guiness World Record adjudicator Michael Empric was on hand for the attempt and confirmed it had broken the previous record of 1,298kms (806 miles) made in Japan in 2013.

3 Team smashed the world record and were awarded official certificate Credit: Bobby Quillard

Dubbed The Phoenix, the car is the brainchild of recycling pioneer Eric Lundgren and was upgraded with 90 per cent recycled parts.

Lundgren founded ITAP - a "hybrid recycling" plant which re-uses electronic waste.

Rather than destroy binned electronics, they extract any reusable parts and put them into new products.

Clients include Nintendo, Motorola, Dell and Panasonic.

3 Eric Lundgren is the founder of the firm that recycles electronic waste Credit: Joseph Mohney

A spokesman for ITAP said: "The purpose of The Phoenix is to showcase Hybrid Recycling, and demonstrate to the world the amazing possibilities and potential derived from electronic waste recycling."

"Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States, yet our country lacks a real solution to efficiently process this waste system."