AMZ is no stranger to holding EV acceleration records, having set a world-beating time of 1.513 seconds in 2016. This was overturned last year when German students from the University of Stuttgart set a new record of 1.461 seconds (video below), an incremental improvement.
The Swiss students did not want to leave themselves vulnerable to the same sort of risk and hoped to not just beat the record but “really do it in style.” With a sub-1-second time, they’ve cut a third from the previous record, beating it by just over half a second.
This was achieved using a carbon and aluminum honeycomb body structure; all in, Mythen weighs a scant 309 pounds. Other key components include four of the students’ self-developed hub motors and “a special powertrain” developing 240 kilowatts, which translates to roughly 322 horsepower. But there are more ingredients in this recipe to success.
