New World Record: 0-62 mph in 0.956s

[Filibuster]

https://www.amzracing.ch/en/world-record

A team of engineers from ETH Zürich and Lucerne University of Applied Science have taken back the world recors for the fastest accelerating electric car!
The car is named "mythen" has 240 kW (326 PS) and weighs only 137kg. The driver, Kate Maggetti, hit 100 km/h in just 0.956s and in only 12.3m!!!

This is incredible news and as a Swiss I'm happy to see this record going back to Switzerland

Congratulations to the whole team for achieving this !!

Also great to see a female driver doing it! We need more women in motorsports

Edited by Filibuster on Tuesday 12th September 15:11

[normalbloke]

I got as far as electric….

[5lab]

its interesting that when you're travelling for less than a second, aerodynamics are basically a non-issue so the thing doesn't look fast. I wonder how quickly something similar could tick off the 1/4 mile

[Bill]

Love it. Who'd think a 0-60 world record attempt could take place on a tennis court?

[Krikkit]

It's saying something that this is one of the less interesting Formula Student-type cars Brilliant engineering abound.

[richhead]

Filibuster said:

Also great to see a female driver doing it! We need more women in motorsports

Edited by Filibuster on Tuesday 12th September 15:11

Im a massive supporter of women in motorsport, this isnt motorsport tho.
Yes its fast to 60, but its a bit of a non record tho, make it 200mph or something then that would be cool.

[GroundEffect]

It's interesting how women are good at this thing - the FIA European top fuel dragster championships are dominated by women these days.

[Baldchap]

137kg bodes very well in my book! Wonder how much of that lightness is actually transferrable to road cars?

normalbloke said:

I got as far as electric….

Got some news for you and I suspect you'll find it's all bad...

[Baldchap]

richhead said:

Yes its fast to 60, but its a bit of a non record tho,

It's arguably the main performance metric quoted in the UK for my entire life (recently evolved to 62). I'd say it's definitely a real record.

0-60 and top speed were on all my Top Trumps cards.

[donkmeister]

This will sound silly but I would have thought a car with >2000bhp per tonne would be a little faster.

[Durzel]

GroundEffect said:

It's interesting how women are good at this thing - the FIA European top fuel dragster championships are dominated by women these days.

They're a lot lighter, generally. Sideways G-forces (e.g. requirement for serious neck muscles) not a requirement, etc. Sounds like a pretty natural fit.

[Baldchap]

donkmeister said:

This will sound silly but I would have thought a car with >2000bhp per tonne would be a little faster.

I guess it's a bit like how most 'fast' bikes all have similar 0-60 times. The first two seconds are 0-10mph and then they actually start to take off. Being electric, this thing will be able to modulate power much, much more accurately than an ICE, hence the mega launch, but you're still working against the laws of physics.

[egomeister]

GroundEffect said:

It's interesting how women are good at this thing - the FIA European top fuel dragster championships are dominated by women these days.

I can't comment on how things are in top fuel, but I'd imagine the main criteria on this record was that she was the lightest member of the team

[Nomme de Plum]

EmailAddress said:

1m:20s

Oh dear. Premature Ejocularity.

[Nomme de Plum]

donkmeister said:

This will sound silly but I would have thought a car with >2000bhp per tonne would be a little faster.

How fast would you like Capt. Kirk?

[fooman]

This is good news for being able to pull out of junctions quickly.

[AmyRichardson]

Baldchap said:

I guess it's a bit like how most 'fast' bikes all have similar 0-60 times. The first two seconds are 0-10mph and then they actually start to take off. Being electric, this thing will be able to modulate power much, much more accurately than an ICE, hence the mega launch, but you're still working against the laws of physics.

The best drag cars (wheel-on-tarmac, no rockets or such...) would be upwards of 90mph @ 1s, so in a formula libre such as this there's quite a lot of potential yet to be realised!

[delta0]

I was fortunate to work on and drive one of these cars in the past and the acceleration and all round performance is incredible.

[normalbloke]

Baldchap said:

137kg bodes very well in my book! Wonder how much of that lightness is actually transferrable to road cars?

normalbloke said:

I got as far as electric….

Got some news for you and I suspect you'll find it's all bad...

Calm down dear and keep your hair on…. I’m not anti EV, they’re just not ready for me yet!
Sammy Miller in Vanishing Point would leave that for dead…

[LivLL]

Have to say, that looked nothing like I expected for some reason! It's like a go-kart with fairings - I was thinking top fuel dragster



Seriously impressive given they developed absolutely everything on the car and got the record back from zee Germans.