Electric vehicles are slowly taking over the automobile markets, and why not? They are environment-friendly and cost-efficient. Moreover, EVs also save resources. However, it is still a new market and inventors such as Elon Musk's Tesla are still trying to make things better or more efficient.? ?
Now, a group of students have broken a world record with their humble electric vehicle. This team of students from the University of Stuttgart in Germany broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest-accelerating electric vehicle.?
They broke the record after their car accelerated from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour-nearly 62 mph in just 1.461 seconds.
The group is called Green Team, and they achieved the title back in 2012. "On Friday, September 23, 2022, the record was broken by 20?students?from the University of Stuttgart with their self-built electric racing car on a racetrack at the Bosch site in Renningen in the district of B?blingen in Baden-W¨¹rttemberg," the university said in a news release.??
Due to the EV's lightweight structure, it can?achieve a peak acceleration ¡°which is roughly equivalent to the force experienced by astronauts when a rocket re-enters the Earth's atmosphere,¡± it stated.
The claims were made true after the car earned itself a Guinness World Record. According to the official Guinness World Record page, "The car used for the attempt is the 2021 formula student car ¡°E0711-11Evo¡±, which was designed and produced by GreenTeam Uni Stuttgart. The attempt was held on a test track at the Robert Bosch Campus.
The green team also managed to break the record back in 2012 as well. They also broke another record in 2015.?
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