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.