100 km/h, to remove any ambiguity
Thanks, my first thought was 100x the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
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#42Could we maybe change the title here and change it to 100mph? I realize this is the original article title but EV + 0 to 100 led me to believe the article was talking about battery charging speed.
0 to 100% fully charged in less than one second?
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#43Is this for some kind of [European?] [electric?] Formula SAE equivalent? I took part in formula SAE ~20 years ago! Some of the first and most rewarding engineering work I've done.
Yes but you ignore the bit where you're making a car affordable to the common man
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#44100 km/h, to remove any ambiguity
Yeah, "0 to 100" is so commonplace in Europe that even the engineers from ETH Zurich leave out the units.
Reminds me of being asked in the US what the fuel consumption of our car was (in miles per gallon) and not being able to answer because the usual unit in Europe is liters per 100 km (didn't have a smartphone back then).
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#45How many football fields of acceleration is this?
American or rest-of-the-world football?
Re: New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
#46Could we maybe change the title here and change it to 100mph? I realize this is the original article title but EV + 0 to 100 led me to believe the article was talking about battery charging speed.
Who the hell would think that a 1s battery charging time with a racing car would make any sense at all?
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#47Re: New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
#48How many football fields of acceleration is this?
American or Canadian?
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#49> "To ensure strong traction right from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction." Traction is now the limiting factor, so better acceleration results will be driven (hah) by better traction.
A similar thing was done in F1 in 1978: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46
It was swiftly banned of course, since it worked too well.