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!
I’m very proud what our students can accomplish: they broke today the previous world record for acceleration in an electrical car:
From 0 to 100 km/h (62.1371 miles/h) in 1.785 seconds 🙂
World Record Acceleration (Source: AMZ Racing)
It only took 30 meters runway to reach 100 km/h :-).
Details: https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2014/11/Grimsel_bricht_Weltrekord.html
Happy Accelerating 🙂
Here is another featured student project of this semester: Formula Student Electric (FSE). After the outstanding racing season with “Julier” in 2013, the students have designed and built a new and improved Formula Student Electric car “grimsel”, named after the Grimsel Mountain Pass.
Team Video:
MCU on Eclipse 