Watch The World’s Fastest Accelerating Electric Car Hit 62 MPH In Under A Second

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Kind of anti-climatic.

140kg or 180kg with driver, dang. I wonder how much slower it would be with me as the driver (although I probably wouldn't fit) 100kg vs 40kg

In reply to VolvoHeretic :

I just came here to post this. Not nearly violent enough for that kind of acceleration. Where's the flames and lightning and wheelspin?

Still- Holy E36 M3 that's fast.

Edit to add- They need to take that thing to a long straightaway somewhere and figure out the top speed. 

I, for one, appreciate the MATLAB screenshot at the 20-second mark in the video...

Looks like the underbody suction is being generated by just a few small fans, that's interesting...looks like fans of different types too.

It's like watching an RC car launch. I'll bet that's a pretty intense experience.

Looks like a lot of custom-built circuit boards in an early shot. And I love seeing the car spike into the ground when the fans come on. There's nothing gradual about this thing.

This is the exact type of EV car I had in mind when I said having an EV autocross car...................cool stuff.

Recon1342 said:

They need to take that thing to a long straightaway somewhere and figure out the top speed. 

It actually might not be capable of going much faster than that. That looks to be a (modified?) Formula Student (Formula SAE) Electric car, which are designed around dynamic events that don't get much over 60mph anyway.

I was kinda hoping it was a production car but still... damn. Make sure your head is against the head rest. Did it show the g-load on the driver? 

In reply to bobzilla :

saw someone had calculated it to about 3G, don't feel like doing the math to confirm that, though

In reply to Driven5 :

They claim a top speed of 124 km/hr for the car, or ~77MPH. It's a re-purposing of their 2019 chassis. These guys have been at the Formula Student game for a while - https://amzracing.ch/en

In reply to gixxeropa :

Woof. You're gonna feel that. 

100 km/h is 27.7 m/s, and it gets there in basically 1 second. 1G is 9.8 m/s^2, so a quick division says roughly 2.8G average acceleration.

You can always have Wolfram Alpha do it for you: 2.96G.  But that assumes constant acceleration and it never is.  That launch looked like a *lot* more than 2.9.

The european FSAE teams get so much support from industry its just wild. Meanwhile in the US we were begging for scraps from the engineering department lol

((62 miles/hr x 5280 ft/mile)/3600 sec/hr)/0.956 sec = 95.1185 ft/sec^2.  Divide by 32.2 ft/sec^2 per g and you get 2.95 g.

Look folks, I'm a college drop out parts dude that barely passed calculus in high school 30 years ago. All this maths is hard. 

Wow that is impressive.  Take that Z06 Corvette!

In reply to Loweguy5 :

Yeah... but which one can do it to 100mph? Or drive on the street? Comparing a track car to a street car is kinda disingenuous. 

VolvoHeretic said:

Kind of anti-climatic.

Seriously, 2 minute video for less than a second of action?

Pretty intense. Did these guys just get themselves a ticket to the Goodwood hillclimb?

In reply to bobzilla :

I want to see someone apply this tech to a Bonneville car. Fastest standing mile? Something...

j_tso said:

VolvoHeretic said:

Kind of anti-climatic.

Seriously, 2 minute video for less than a second of action?

Pretty intense. Did these guys just get themselves a ticket to the Goodwood hillclimb?

I was expecting it to last more than one second and more than 62mph. 

Recon1342 said:

In reply to bobzilla :

I want to see someone apply this tech to a Bonneville car. Fastest standing mile? Something...

Dude.... that would be amazing. Traction on the salt will be a problem and the amount of juice you'll need. But still amazing to watch.

j_tso said:

VolvoHeretic said:

Kind of anti-climatic.

Seriously, 2 minute video for less than a second of action?

Yeah, if it was a proper YouTube channel it would be split into 5 25 minute videos.

That was a perfect length. Just enough information to set the scene, then multiple shots of the launch, then some reaction. 

bobzilla said:

Recon1342 said:

In reply to bobzilla :

I want to see someone apply this tech to a Bonneville car. Fastest standing mile? Something...

Dude.... that would be amazing. Traction on the salt will be a problem and the amount of juice you'll need. But still amazing to watch.

Do it at the Texas Mile, no traction problem.