A prototype electric car built by a team of students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences has broken the world acceleration record. The car was designed outside of course time by students coming together under the umbrella of the Academic Motorsport Association Zurich (AMZ). 0.956 seconds comfortably beats the previous world record of 1.461 seconds set by a team from the University of Stuttgart, ETH Zurich announced. All of the car’s components, from the printed circuit boards to the chassis and the battery, were developed by the students. To keep the vehicle on the ground the team developed a suction system to hold it on the track.

Source: Le News September 14, 2023 21:55 UTC