Indeed, team AMZ took its first world acceleration record back in 2014, and again in 2016. Since then, a competing team from the University of Stuttgart has had a stranglehold on the record, which has ...

A group of Swiss students have built an electric car that can out accelerate even the quickest supercars. The tiny electric car reached 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) from a standstill in just 1.513 ...

The Tesla Model S Plaid’s Ludicrous mode might not be ludicrous enough for applied sciences students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University. The students have broken the acceleration world record for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich's (AMZ) Mythen vehicle shattered the world acceleration record for electric cars.

As Tesla has shown us, electric cars are quite capable of embarrassing their gas-powered rivals, but a new record-breaking racer developed by a student team demonstrates just how potent the electron ...