Every year, the students of HSLU and ETHZ build an electrical race car and compete in Formula Student, the world’s biggest competition for engineers. A team of students and alumni wanted to break the current acceleration record of an electrical car (1.461 seconds). They achieved an incredible acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than one second!
The AMZ team used the race car ‘mythen’ from the 2019 season: they improved the aerodynamics, replaced the power inverter, added new motors, optimized the batteries for weight, and many other things.
Already the first of multiple runs was below the current world record time. Several more measurements followed, with the last three ones as the fastest runs:
- From 0 to 100 km/h in 0.956 s
- 100 km/h after 12.24 m
- Maximum acceleration of 3.81 g
The ‘Tagesschau’ (in German) captured the event (see at the end of the video): https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/tagesschau/video/tagesschau-vom-01-09-2023-hauptausgabe?urn=urn:srf:video:2704f561-65d9-480a-80a7-583813b55880
That new world record accelerating an electrical race car is not official yet in the Guinness Book of Records, as it takes some time to get everything verified and approved. Fingers crossed!
Congratulations to the entire team!
Happy accelerating 🙂
Links
- https://www.amzracing.ch
- https://ivp.ethz.ch/education/fse.html
- University of Stuttgart (record at 1.461 s): https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/corporate/2022/12/electric-car-goes-from-0-to-100-km-h-in-1-461-seconds-730325
- AMZ (record at 1.513): https://mcuoneclipse.com/2016/06/22/electric-racecar-world-record-from-zero-to-100-kmh-in-1-513s/
- https://www.youtube.com/user/AMZFormulaStudent
- Formula Student: https://www.imeche.org/events/formula-student
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Wow, that really is incredible! Would have loved to see the actual run in the video.
I wonder how they managed to get so much traction on the tires to achieve 3.81g
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Hi Rolf,
Yes, it is incredible fast. You see one of the runs in the video, at 21:50 in the video (first run). Down-force is increased by fans removing air between the vehicle and the ground.
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I see a bunch of links, including the one from Tagesschau, but can not find “the video” you are referring to …
Can you copy the link in a response? And yes, increasing the downforce makes sense. Even then, super soft chewing gum type tires required I guess. And since acceleration is there in just a few ms must be really tough on driver.
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Here is the link: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/tagesschau/video/tagesschau-vom-01-09-2023-hauptausgabe?urn=urn:srf:video:2704f561-65d9-480a-80a7-583813b55880
The tires are super soft, and get pre-heated for extra traction.
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The Tagesschau link is not great. I see a different video, only 2 minutes,
probably because I am outside of Switzerland.
Probably better to post videos on youtube or Vimeo or like.
Anyhow, no big deal, all good.
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I was afraid that something like this could be the case. It worked for me from Italy, so not sure if there is some geo-locking.
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It is on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/mvoFemftA34?si=Fgv3kQ4ejgPLXJWS
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An amazing achievement by this next generation of Automotive Engineers: Europe needs them to be competitive in the global EV market.
[The Tagesschau link works in UK]
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The world record is now confirmed 🙂
https://www.20min.ch/story/neuer-weltrekord-dieser-wagen-faehrt-in-0-956-sekunden-von-null-auf-hundert-302851563869
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Information from the ETHZ: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/09/from-zero-to-one-hundred-in-0-956-seconds.html
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