1.461 seconds. That's how fast it takes a race car built by German students to go from 0 to a little over 62 mph — breaking the record for the world's fastest-accelerating electric car.
Before you can say"One Mississippi, two Mississippi," the world's newly minted fastest-accelerating electric vehicle will be long gone.students known as the GreenTeam, can go from 0 to a little over 62 miles per hour in just 1.461 seconds.
The school's website says that its peak acceleration is"roughly equivalent to the force experienced by astronauts when a rocket re-enters the Earth's atmosphere."the record in 2012 with a time of 2.681 seconds. Then, the title went to the Netherlands and Switzerland, until the German team took it back in 2015 at 1.779 seconds. A Swiss crew broke that record in 2016 with 1.513 seconds, which remained unbeaten until now.
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