Tiny Car SMASHES World Speed Record

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A tiny car has broken a world speed record - by going from zero to 100kph in 0.956 seconds.

Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world acceleration record for electric vehicles with a hand-​built racing car, called mythen.

The vehicle accelerated the equivalent of nought to 62mph over a distance of 12.3 metres.

The team say they had to develop a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction to ensure strong traction from the start.