With all due respect to the Swiss researchers, I believe Plasma Boy was faster than that a few years ago in his White Zombie - a door-slammer Datsun 1200 conversion.
Chris On Nov 7, 2014 5:39 AM, "brucedp5 via EV" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2820842/The-fastest-little-car-world-Electric-car-smashes-world-record-accelerating-0-100km-h-just-1-8-seconds.html > The fastest little car in the world: Electric car smashes world record by > accelerating from 0-100km/h in under 1.8 seconds > By Mark Prigg 4 November 2014 > > [images / ETH Zurich > > http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/04/1415128821993_wps_5_MUST_CREDIT_ETH_Zurich_AN.jpg > The mini-motor went from from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.785 seconds in under 30 > metres > > > http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/04/1415129836077_wps_6_MUST_CREDIT_ETH_Zurich_AN.jpg > The new record was set at the military airfield in Dübendorf, where the > vehicle reached a speed of 100 km per hour in less than 30 metres. > > > videos flash > ] > > Called Grimsel and developed by Swiss researchers > Went from from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.785 seconds in under 30 metres > > It may look rather more like a toy car than a hi-tech racing machine, but > this mini-racer has become the world's fastest electric car. > > Called the Grimsel, and developed by Swiss researchers, it broke the > previous world record for acceleration by going from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.785 > seconds in under 30 metres. > > The carbon fibre construction has a total weight of 168 kg and produces > about 200 hp (147 kW). > > The new record was set at the military airfield in Dübendorf, where the > vehicle reached a speed of 100 km per hour in less than 30 metres. > > > THE GRIMSEL > > Total weight of only 168kg > > Powered by four AMZ M4 wheel hub motors. > > Produce 37kW each at a weight of 3.4kg. > > The planetary gearbox which is integrated into the upright transmits the > torque to accumulated 1630Nm at the wheels. > > The chassis is a one piece carbon fibre monocoque > > Aerodynamics package produces enough downforce to drive at the ceiling at > 110km/h. > > > Raced by the the Formula Student team at the Academic Motorsports Club > Zurich (AMZ), it beat the previous record of 2.134 seconds, which was held > by an electric car built by Delft University of Technology. > > The new record was set at the military airfield in Dübendorf, where the > vehicle reached a speed of 100 km per hour in less than 30 metres. > > The new record-breaking vehicle is a Formula Student electric car that was > developed and built in less than a year by 30 students at ETH Zurich and > Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. The ‘grimsel’ is the fifth > AMZ electric car and the result of continuous development. > > The carbon fibre construction has a total weight of 168 kg and produces > about 200 hp (147 kW). > > A four-wheel drive is implemented with four specially designed wheel hub > motors, which generate a total torque of 1630 Nm at the wheels. > Electric car breaks record by accelerating to 100km/h in 1.8secs > > By means of traction control, torque distribution is controlled > individually > for each wheel to maximise vehicle acceleration. > > No other production vehicle in the world has reached a similarly strong > acceleration. > > The ‘grimsel’ celebrated numerous successes at the Formula Student > international competition this summer. > > With more than 500 teams, Formula Student is the world’s biggest > competition > for engineers and is held annually at various locations around the globe. > > With three overall wins and an average of 920 points out of a possible > 1,000, the ‘grimsel’ is AMZ’s most successful car. > > And with its victories in Austria and Spain, it achieved the two highest > scores in the European history of Formula Student. > > These further strengthened AMZ’s standing at the top of the Formula Student > world rankings and demonstrated the potential in electric drive concepts. > [© Associated Newspapers] > ... > > https://transportevolved.com/2014/11/05/meet-grimsel-crazy-swiss-electric-car-can-accelerate-formula-one-car/ > Meet Grimsel, a Crazy Swiss Electric Car That Can Out-Accelerate an Formula > One Car > November 5, 2014 By Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield > ... > > https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2014/11/Grimsel_bricht_Weltrekord.html > ‘grimsel’ breaks world record > 03.11.2014 ... set by students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of > Applied Sciences and Arts, who also designed and built the vehicle ... > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsel_Pass#History > Grimsel-Pass.ch > > > > > For EVLN posts use: > > http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble+template%2FNamlServlet.jtp%3Fmacro%3Dsearch_page%26node%3D413529%26query%3Devln+-re%26sort%3Ddate > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVrecord-0-100kph-1-785s-Grimsel-ch-e-racer-Out-Accelerate-Formula1-tp4672427.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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