Posted to News on 29th Sep 2016, 14:34
New electric car world record with Lenze inverters
From zero to 62 mph in 1.513 seconds: Students of the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) succeeded in setting a new acceleration world record with their "grimsel" electric racing car. The electrically driven Formula Student racing car runs with inverters by Lenze Schmidhauser who are a sponsor and supplier to the motor sport competition for young engineers.
The Guinness world record is based on the time to accelerate up to 100km per hour. The grimsel car demonstrated outstanding acceleration, taking more than a quarter of a second off the previous record of 1.779 seconds. To illustrate the performance, the record speed was reached in a linear distance less than 30m.
Thirty university students from Zurich and Lucerne worked on the vehicle with the AMZ Racing Team. The race car is driven by four wheel hub motors which reach speeds up to 20,000 r/min. Inverters from Lenze Schmidhauser convert the DC battery power into AC current for the motors. Extensive testing through the winter season optimised the motor controllers and enhanced the traction control software. The resulting performance achieved on a track only 120m long was acceleration unmatched by any production car in the world.
For Lenze Schmidhauser it is the second AMZ vehicle to run with frequency inverters from their MOBILE series. As Jonas Schuster, Head of Sales and Marketing at Lenze Schmidhauser remarks: "Our inverters are designed for use in commercial vehicles, however their compact design is also ideal for power conversion in the Formula Student competition. Our congratulations go to the young engineers; their grimsel development is the most successful vehicle in AMZ history".
For more information about inverters by Lenze Schmidhauser and other products and services, please visit www.lenze.com.
