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From zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres

A new land speed world record in a hand built electric car.

ETH Zurich »

Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-​built electric racing car, mythen. The vehicle accelerated from zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres.

New World Record – from 0 to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds

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Shell, Europe’s biggest oil company, shelves it’s plan to shrink its carbon footprint

Bloomberg »

In an all-day investor event in June, Sawan laid out an updated strategy for the European oil major that included cutting costs and doubling down on profit drivers like oil and gas. As important was what he omitted: any mention of the company’s prior commitment to spend up to $100 million a year to build a pipeline of carbon credits, part of the firm’s promise to zero out its emissions by 2050.

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