Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A team of students from Germany's University of Stuttgart broke a Guinness World Record when their electric vehicle accelerated from 0 to 62 mph in 1.461 seconds. The students, known as the GreenTeam, designed an electric car with peak acceleration that is "roughly equivalent to the force experienced by astronauts when a rocket re-enters the Earth's atmosphere," the university announced. Advertisement The car earned the Guinness World Record for fastest accelerating electric vehicle after it went from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour -- roughly 62 mph -- in just 1.461 seconds. The GreenTeam previously held the same record in 2012, when their car accelerated with a time of 2.681 seconds, but the record was subsequently broken multiple times. Read More Indian martial artist uses nunchaku to smash coconuts on volunteers' heads Big black bear relocated from under deck of Colorado home Levi's jeans from 1880s auctioned for $87,400 after mine shaft discovery
