World record: electric (and handmade) racing car went from zero to sixty in less than a second

Swiss students have broken the world acceleration record with their electric racing car built by hand. The vehicle accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds and traveled 12.3 meters.

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This exceeds by more than a third the previous world record of 1.461 secondsestablished in September 2022 by a team from the University of Stuttgart.

The members of the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) -students from ETH Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne- achieved their feat by building a prototype called Mythen, which they put to the test in the Swiss Innovation Park in Duebendorf, with team member Kate Maggetti behind the wheel.

All Myten components, from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) to the chassis and battery, were developed by the students themselves and optimized for their function. Thanks to the use of a lightweight carbon and aluminum honeycomb, the racing car weighs only about 140 kilos. Student-developed four-wheel hub motors and a special propulsion system They give the vehicle its impressive power of 240 kilowatts, or around 326 hp.

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“But power isn’t the only thing that matters when it comes to setting an acceleration record: Effectively transferring that power to the ground is also key.”, says Dario Messerli, head of aerodynamics at AMZ. Conventional Formula One cars solve this through aerodynamics: a rear or front wing pushes the car to the ground. However, this effect only comes into play when the car has reached a certain speed. To ensure good traction from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that keeps the vehicle glued to the ground using suction.

The AMZ team had already set the world acceleration record for electric cars twice: in 2014 and again in 2016. In the following years, its record was broken by a team from the University of Stuttgart. Now the world record is back in Swiss hands and the ETH Zurich students are confident they will not lose it again soon, this center reports. it’s a statement.

Source: Elcomercio

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