Electric car sets world acceleration record
News
1 Jul 2016
An electric racing car built by Swiss student engineers has broken the world record for acceleration by battery-powered vehicles.
The grimsel car, named after an Alpine pass, recorded a time of 1.513 seconds to reach 62mph, a quarter of a second off of the previous record.
The car has been built and refined over the last year by 30 students studying at ETH Zurich (ETZ) and Lucerne's University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and achieved the record at a Dubendorf air base race track.
Almost all of car's parts have been custom built apart from its tyres, battery cells and the motor control units, and weighs only 168kg.
