Sunday, June 26, 2016 11:12:14 PM
Geneva, Jun 26 (PTI) An electric racing car built by Swiss student engineers has broken the world record for acceleration by battery-powered vehicles, taking only 1.513 seconds to reach 100kph.
The grimsel electric racing car accelerated from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour (kph) in just 1.513 seconds to set the new world record.
It reached the speed after covering less than 30 metres of track at the Dubendorf air base near Zurich. The previous world record stood at 1.779 seconds and was set last year by a team at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
The record-breaking Formula Student electric car was developed and built in less than a year by a team of 30 students at ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland.
The grimsel is Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ)s fifth electric vehicle and sets new standards in lightweight construction and electric drive technology.
Thanks to the use of carbon-fibre materials, grimsel weighs just 168kg. The four-wheel drive electric racing car has four specially developed wheel hub motors that are capable of generating 200 horsepower (hp) and 1700 Newton metre (Nm) of torque.
A sophisticated traction control system regulates the performance of each wheel individually, allowing the cars acceleration to be increased even further.
No large-scale production car - even one with a combustion engine - can reach an acceleration comparable to the grimsel. PTI SAR SAR
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/swiss-electric-car-sets-world-acceleration-record/1/701225.html
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