How Students Built a Car That Does 0-100 in 0.9 Sec | Driver61 Podcast #14

This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and a half seconds, the fastest production car - a Rimac Nevera - will do it in 1.7 seconds and my trusty old VW Passat will do it in about 8. But a group of students from AMZ Racing based at the Swiss university, ETH Zurich, made a car accelerate faster than anything else in the world - and smashed through the previous record of 1.46 seconds. So, I spoke with Eloi Roset from AMZ Racing to understand exactly how these ambitious students approached this crazy project, what challenges they needed to overcome and how they engineered a car that accelerates more than twice as quickly as an F1 car. 🎙 You can check out more here: Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/3knZnPI​​​ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NXMD6j​​​ Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/3st1g05