A group of students built the world’s fastest electric car – Photo: Carscoops
A group of students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland have set a new acceleration record for electric vehicles. The domestic electric car named Mithen accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in just 0.956 seconds.
Guinness World Records has confirmed that the Mithane has “broken” the previous record of 1,461 seconds recorded on September 23, 2022 and has become the world’s fastest electric car.
All students involved in the creation of the Mythen are members of the Academic Motorsport Club Zurich (AMZ). The car weighs only 140 kg due to the use of carbon and aluminum honeycomb. Each wheel is equipped with its own engine with a total capacity of 326 horsepower.
This number is not robust, as many cars have been built with more horsepower than this. But when taken apart in terms of weight, even the most powerful supercars cannot compare.
In fact, being very strong and very light, the team even had to design a system to “suction” the car to the ground for enough traction so the car could accelerate as desired.
Mithane sets record for world’s fastest electric car – Video: ETH Zurich
AMZ team head Yann Bernard said this is not the group’s only project. Besides building the world’s fastest car, they still go to school as normal, and face the same challenges that regular students face.
This is the third time the AMZ team has achieved this record. He was successful in 2014 and broke his own record in 2016. Just last year, another group in Germany had beaten it with a time of just 1.46 seconds. Now AMZ has once again made a record. According to him, this number is so amazing that super technology is needed to destroy it. carscoops,
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