This record belongs to Belgian speed driver Camille Jenatzy, the "Red Devil" as they called him on the track! 

Camille had studied engineering and generally loved speed and electric cars, which at that time had started to appear on the market!

So he opened a factory and set out to build his own cars, with the aim of breaking the previous speed record, which was 92.78 km/h..

AND HE DID IT! He built a lightweight car shaped like a torpedo and with electric motors, and on April 29, 1899, he took it to the road, stepped on the gas - I imagine - and made his dream come true! 

FUN FACT 

He named this car "La Jamais Contente", which roughly translates to "The Unsatisfied"! Now *why* he named it that, don't ask me! The gossipers, however, said it was a dig at his wife..