ETH Zurich: Kate Maggetti breaks the world record 🎥
ALL ATTENTION Students at ETH Zurich have managed to go from zero to 100 in less than a second. They have snatched the world record from the grasp of an old rival from Germany.
It's no secret that electric cars have brute acceleration. Last year, students from the University of Stuttgart set a new world record for acceleration with their e-racing car. Just eleven months later, this was broken by a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Record driven in Dübendorf
The Mythen bolide from ETH accelerated in 0.956 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h. A distance of just 12.3 meters was enough for the vehicle to do this. Kate Maggetti was at the wheel. The previous world record of 1.461 seconds, set in September 2022 by a team from the University of Stuttgart, was thus beaten by more than a third.
The record was set at the military airfield in Dübendorf. Students from the University of Stuttgart also set their record there. Their electric car needs 1.461 seconds in 2022. The official confirmation that the Swiss broke the world record was confirmed by the Guinness World Records organization.
140 kilograms in weight and 326 hp
The ETH Zurich vehicle was thus significantly faster. The racing car was built and developed by around 30 students from Zurich and Lucerne. It weighs 140 kilograms and has an output of 326 hp. To prevent the car from taking off during a fast start, the students developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that sucks the vehicle to the ground, according to ETH.
ETA Zurich and the University of Stuttgart have been engaged in hot competition in e-racing cars for years. According to ETH, it has been set up twice in Switzerland since 2014 and broken twice by the Stuttgart team.
