Think the Tesla is quick? Witness the world record violating Grimsel electrified car go from 0-60 in just 1.Five SECONDS
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 20:09 BST twenty three Jun 2016, updated 12:49 BST twenty four Jun two thousand sixteen
- Grimsel car built by German students and researchers
- Accelerated from zero to one hundred km/h in 1.513 seconds over less than 30m
If you think Tesla’s insane and ludicrious modes are quick, then get ready for a shock.
German researchers have cracked the world record for the fastest electrical car.
The grimsel electrical racing car accelerated from zero to one hundred km/h in 1.513 seconds over a distance of less than thirty m.
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GRIMSEL SPECS
Carbon-fibre materials are used across, and, grimsel weighs just one hundred sixty eight kg.
The four-wheel drive electrical racing car has four specially developed wheel hub motors that are capable of generating two hundred hp and one thousand seven hundred Nm of torque.
A sophisticated traction control system regulates the spectacle of each wheel individually, permitting the car’s acceleration to be enhanced even further.
The record-breaking car was developed by students at ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
The record-breaking Formula Student electrical car was developed and built in less than a year by a team of thirty students at ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Grimsel is AMZ’s fifth electrical vehicle and sets fresh standards in lightweight construction and electrical drive technology.
Thanks to the use of carbon-fibre materials, grimsel weighs just one hundred sixty eight kg.
The four-wheel drive electrical racing car has four specially developed wheel hub motors that are capable of generating two hundred hp and one thousand seven hundred Nm of torque.
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A sophisticated traction control system regulates the spectacle of each wheel individually, permitting the car’s acceleration to be enhanced even further.
No large-scale production car – even one with a combustion engine – can reach an acceleration comparable to the grimsel.
It reached the speed after covering less than thirty m of track at the Dübendorf 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.
It is not the grimsel’s very first win – it celebrated considerable success in the international Formula Student competition back in the summer of 2014.
With over five hundred teams rivaling, Formula Student is the largest competition worldwide for engineering students and takes place every year on race courses around the world.
With three overall victories and a points average of nine hundred twenty out of a possible 1000, grimsel is AMZ’s most successful vehicle.
The success of the grimsel also contributed to AMZ’s very first place defence in the Formula Student world rankings, which they have held since 2013.