It is nothing less than a fabulous record: Swiss students managed the sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in less than a second in a self-built electric vehicle! The world record was broken after exactly 0.956 seconds.
The joy in the Academic Motorsport Association Zurich (AMZ) is enormous: for almost a year, the students from ETH Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences spent every free minute working on their electric vehicle called “mythen”, overcoming setbacks and again and again in the development of individual components started from the beginning. Now they have received official confirmation from Guinness World Records: “mythen” has broken the previous acceleration world record for electric vehicles. The bolide or little bolide accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in just 0.956 seconds at the innovation park in Dübendorf, directly in front of their workshop. A distance of just 12.3 meters was sufficient. Kate Maggetti, one of the students, was at the wheel. All components, from the printed circuit boards (PCB) to the chassis and battery, were developed and optimized by the students themselves. Thanks to the use of carbon and aluminum honeycomb, the car weighs just around 140 kilos. Four self-developed wheel hub motors and a special drive train give the vehicle the impressive power of 240 kW/326 hp. A lot of effort was necessary to ensure that the car did not take off during the record second, explains Dario Messerli, responsible for aerodynamics: With conventional racing vehicles, this is over aerodynamic measures such as spoilers and wings are achieved. “But this effect only comes into play when the car has reached a certain speed. In order to ensure strong traction right from the start, we have developed a type of vacuum cleaner that sucks the vehicle onto the ground.” The previous world record was set in September 2022 by a team from the University of Stuttgart. After 2014 and 2016, it is the third time that the AMZ has set the acceleration world record.
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