Student built Electric Car crushes 0-60 MPH Record W/ 1.5 sec. run!

[intakexhaust]

This is a hoot!

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Student-Built Electric Car Crushes 0-60 MPH Record With Unbelievable 1.5-Second Run

Swiss student motorsport club Academic Motorsports club Zurich (or AMZ for short) smashed the Guinness world record for acceleration in an electric car with a 1.513-second zero to 60 mph run.

The car itself is a masterpiece, with carbon fiber wheels and big, meaty wings that would make an airplane jealous. Four wheel hub motors designed by the team give the featherweight 370-lb car over 200 horsepower and over 1,250 lb-ft of torque, per a team press release. The electric motors are efficient, too, regenerating as much as 30% of their spent energy back into the battery under braking.

A clever traction control system ensures that all wheels are putting down as much power as they can in trickier road conditions, and torque vectoring helps the car turn on a time by sending more power to the outer wheels in a turn.

[bpu699]

Agree... cool, but thats a gokart...

[kach22i]

Now that is down-force.

[David]

Check out the part of the video showing the motors and gearing. Very awesome and seems pretty applicable to a street car if beefed up a little.

I had no idea that a 50 hp motor could be that small.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

That's is a pretty impressive time

Wish they had Formula Student when I was a student

The quality of design, manufacturing and build that go it some of these cars especially the Austrian and German Universities would shame many top single seater and sports car race teams.

[M.D. Holloway]

That's very cool. What would the definition of a go-cart be? Just size?

[cgarr]

Damn, You could eat at taco bell and make it home to poop!

[rusnak]

^ Haha!

The video editing is really impressive too.

[wdfifteen]

Yoots these days don't seem to be interested in ICE cars. When I was in college the engineering school had a group working on a drag car and a group on an SCCA Camaro. Now - electric is where all the excitement is.

[herr_oberst]

The puns in the comments are pretty funny, and plentiful!

Who give a **** if it's a kart? 0-100k in 1.5 seconds is the same amount of quick in anything!

[Won]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

That's very cool. What would the definition of a go-cart be? Just size?

Formula SAE / Formula Student cars are the only current "formula" where the driver's feet are allowed in front of the front axle, just like a kart. So you could say they are in fact, karts?!

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Yoots these days don't seem to be interested in ICE cars. When I was in college the engineering school had a group working on a drag car and a group on an SCCA Camaro. Now - electric is where all the excitement is.

The year I went to FS competition in Silverstone was the first time an electric car won the competition outright. Guess who - ETH Zurich (as above). The technology they're developing is amazing, and lucky for us, they're coming soon to road cars near you!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

I keep meaning to get involved with FS as a mentor, I'm too old to go back to skool. I'm sure the learning would be both ways, more than likely I'd learn more.

If any US Universities read this,

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking to go fast, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for your competitors. If you don't want me now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you do, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will help you win.

I'd even work for free, do all nighters during the csar build if my expenses are covered, and I'm watered with cold beer and fed with Tex-Mex

[Flieger]

Wish I was still in school so I could take you up on that. You are in the US now then?

[Flieger]

Years ago the cars were getting too close to being karts- solid axles, practically no suspension. Now they mandate a couple inches of suspension travel. They frown upon spool cars that lift the inside rear to turn but they are still allowed since the students can argue well enough about the weight advantages.

But the 4 wheel drive electric cars are cleaning up now.

[Arizona_928]

Power to weight?

[Jeff Higgins]

Hmmm... Don Garlits and some of the rest of the crop of drag racers playing with electric cars have cracked the one second mark to 60 mph. While their "record" in the 0-60 mph time may be unofficial (since drag racers really don't formally keep track of these times), they are still significantly quicker than these guys. Not taking anything away from them, as theirs is an entirely different endeavor, but they really cannot lay claim to the "quickest 0-60" time.