Electric racing car 'grimsel' breaks world record

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The electric car from the Zurich Academic Motorsport Association (AMZ) accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in just 1.513 seconds at the Dübendorf military airfield near Zurich - and this over a distance of around 30 meters. According to the student team, no production vehicle - not even one with a combustion engine - has ever achieved a comparable acceleration. The previous world record (1.779 seconds), which was set last year by a team from the University of Stuttgart, has thus been broken. The 'grimsel' is a ...