The notion that a truly special moment comes along just once in a decade is not popular among members of the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMCZ). Founded by students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2006, the club has a long list of achievements in its brief 10-year history.
For starters, it has produced a prototype vehicle to compete in various Formula Student or SAE (FS) competitions in Europe every year. Also, AMCZ was the first Swiss team to enter FS competitions, and it has been ranked No. 1 in the world the past three years. Most importantly, the club broke the Guinness world record for the fastest acceleration from 0 to 100 kph by an electric car last June 22.