A small electric car sets a world record of 0–60 mph in 1.5 seconds

A group of 30 students have constructed the fastest-accelerating electric automobile of the world. Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) released a video today that previews “grimsel,” its electrical race car, speeding up from 0– 60 miles per hour in simply 1.513 seconds on a runway at Dübendorf Air Base in Switzerland.

The team is comprised from students from two universities: ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. The automobile was produced the Formula Student competition, here the AMZ club has been ranked number one for three years.

Formula Student, likewise called Formula SAE, is a worldwide competition that was started in 1981. Groups of students construct brand-new vehicles every year and contend in a variety of ways on and off the track. They need to show and protect their design and engineering options, and even pitch these vehicles to fake investors (in order to find out about marketability), this is all before they race the automobiles on the track.