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EV Speed World Record: A team of Swiss university students has broken the world record for the fastest acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in an electric vehicle.

A group of students from Germany has set a new world record for the longest-range electric vehicle (EV).

The importance of this research study is to make the society aware of students’ readiness to acquire science and knowledge through social media platforms

The previous world record of 1.461 seconds was set in September 2022 by a team from the University of Stuttgart.

A team of students from Swiss universities has set a new record for the fastest acceleration from 0 to 100 kmph in an electric vehicle (EV). Their creation, named mythen, achieved this feat in just 0.956 seconds, beating the previous record by over one-third. The EV is equipped with four hub-mounted electric motors and weighs only 140 kg.

In a surge of interest in higher education programs, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences (VAMK) has witnessed a remarkable influx of applicants, with their English-taught Engineering program, Energy Technology, emerging as the most sought-after choice. As the autumn joint application period for higher education institutions came to a close on September 14, 2023, VAMK received a staggering 4,970 applications for this program alone.

Swiss university leaders expect to have to wait until at least 2025 before associating to Horizon Europe after the UK struck a deal with Brussels last week. Switzerland, like the UK, has been excluded due to wider political disagreements with the EU. But while the UK solved its dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol in February this year, Switzerland hasn’t even formally re-started talks with Brussels that could pave the way for association.

Editor’s note: This story was updated on 9/14 at 1:40 p.m. with Stevens’ age and a comment from current Ogden Dean David Brown. Cheryl Stevens, WKU provost emeritus and former dean of the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, died this morning at age 67 after battling cancer. Stevens began working at WKU in 2012...

From zero to 100 kph in less than a second: A racing car built by students has broken the world record for electric vehicle acceleration, a Swiss university said Tuesday. Students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences designed and built the "Mythen" vehicle that achieved…

With bragging rights among European universities at stake, the team achieved a blisteringly fast time thanks in part to a car that weighed only 309 pounds.