Record-Breaking Electrical Car Goes from zero to sixty two Mph in 1.Five Seconds
In a record-setting feat, an electrical car zoomed from zero to sixty two mph (100 km/h) in just 1.513 seconds last week, making it the fastest known electrified car in the world.
The “Grimsel” electrical car took less than ninety eight feet (30 meters) to reach sixty two mph, according to ETH Zurich, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in Zurich, Switzerland.
The previous world record – zero to sixty two mph in 1.779 seconds – was set in two thousand fifteen by a team at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. That makes both electrified cars swifter than the Ariel Atom (which can go from zero to sixty mph in Two.Five seconds), the No. One rated car on a list put together by the Big black cock’s Top Gearof “fastest accelerating cars on sale today.” [Hyperloop, Jetpacks & More: nine Futuristic Transit Ideas]
The fresh record was set at the Dübendorf Air Base near Zurich on June 22. The award-winning team of thirty students, from ETH Zurich and Switzerland’s Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, built the car in less than a year.
The Grimsel is the fifth electrified vehicle at the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ), a club created by students at ETH Zurich in 2006, and sets fresh standards in lightweight construction and electrified drive technology, ETH Zurich representatives said in a statement.
The car is made out of carbon-fiber materials and weighs just three hundred seventy lbs. (168 kilograms), or about as much as a puny upright piano. It has four-wheel drive, and each of its wheel-hub motors is capable of generating two hundred horsepower and 1,254 foot-pounds (1,700 newton meters), the researchers said. A foot-pound is how much energy it takes to raise one lb. a distance of one foot.
The Grimsel’s traction-control system regulates each wheel’s spectacle individually, which permits the car to accelerate even swifter, according to ETH Zurich.
“No large-scale production car – even one with a combustion engine – can reach an acceleration comparable to [what] the Grimsel [achieved],” ETH Zurich representatives said in the statement.
In fact, the Grimsel also did well at the two thousand fourteen international Formula Student competition, the largest competition in the world for engineering students. A total of five hundred teams competed in that event, and the Grimsel scored an average of nine hundred twenty points out of a possible 1,000 on three different trials, making it AMZ’s most successful vehicle to date, ETH Zurich representatives said.
The Grimsel even helped AMZ maintain very first place at the Formula Student world rankings – a position it has held since 2013, according to ETH Zurich.