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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.

4.9M views· 177,578 likes· 5:28· Oct 23, 2023

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AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it. ■ AMZ: https://www.amzracing.ch/en https://www.instagram.com/amzracing/ ■ Their world record video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88cVs5zZFTE Main camera op: Juan Pablo Salazar Additional cam op: Tobias Binder Drone camera ops: Felix Kunz, Marco Odermatt 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: https://youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif

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In this video, I get to do something that feels like it should be illegal: drive AMZ Racing’s “mythen”, an electric vehicle that holds the world record for acceleration — 0 to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds. That’s not “supercar fast”, that’s “your brain needs a moment to catch up” fast. I’m with the team behind it, the kind of student engineering group who look at a physics problem and respond by building a machine that makes the numbers real. The point isn’t just the record, though that’s a very good headline. It’s what it takes to make an EV do that reliably: traction, power delivery, control systems, and a whole pile of engineering tradeoffs that don’t show up on a spec sheet. And, yes, I do the driving — because if you’re offered the chance to sit in a world-record car and press the button, you do not say no. The takeaway is that “electric” isn’t just about efficiency or batteries: it’s also about what happens when you can command enormous torque instantly, and you have the engineering to keep it pointed in the right direction.

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