A team of alumni and students from the Swiss universities ETH Zürich, Academic Motorsports Club Zürich, and Lucerne University of Applied Scientists and Arts, has broken the world record for the fastest acceleration from 0 to 100 kmph in an electric vehicle. A video which is currently doing rounds on social media shows the vehicle was made and much more. It was uploaded on YouTube by YouTuber Tom Scott. This car beat the previous record which was set by a team of students in Germany. “AMZ Racing’s “mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it," wrote Scott while uploading the video.
In the video, Eloi Roset from AMZ Racing can be seen explaining the entire process. The team lets YouTuber Tom drive the car. Here, have a look at the video:
The video, which was uploaded just 19 hours ago has gathered over 1 million views. “My final, confirmed time was 0-100km/h in 1.398 seconds. If I want to beat the one-second mark, I need a warmer day, and to lose about 30kg," wrote Tom in the comments.
Many people were shocked with this achievement. One person wrote, “I’m starting to see why Tom feels he doesn’t have that many videos left in him – I thought he was retiring but it’s more of a decreasing survival likelihood," wrote a YouTube user. Another person wrote, “I like how they were so confident Tom will execute this flawlessly, that they parked the car 50 meters straight in front of the braking zone."
“I am a team lead for a rocketry team in Canada and ETH Zurich has an absolutely cracked rocketry team as well, flying higher than anyone else and building absolutely incredible vehicles. It’s not surprising they have an elite formula car team as well. What that one guy said about “our goal isn’t to build cars it is to build engineers" is absolutely true, and its something I bring to my rocketry team every day. Really well done to all the students working on this" wrote another user.
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