On tracks throughout Europe, the cars competed in disciplines including autocross, racing through Formula One like twists and turns as fast as possible, an endurance trial through more than 20 kilometres of track to push the limits of battery management, a test of grip and downforce by basically going round in a circle as fast as possible, and then there's acceleration.

在歐洲各地的賽道上，賽車參加了多項比賽，包括自動越野賽，以最快的速度通過類似一級方程式賽車的曲折賽道；在 20 多公里的賽道上進行耐力測試，挑戰電池管理的極限；測試抓地力和下壓力，基本上是以最快的速度繞圈行駛，然後是加速。

It's a drag race, basically, and it's this last challenge that one team, AMZ Racing, absolutely blasted last year, going from 0 to 100 kilometres an hour in, well, I'll let you know a bit later.

這基本上是一場阻力賽，去年，AMZ 車隊在這最後一項挑戰中大獲全勝，從 0 加速到 100 公里/小時，我稍後再告訴你。

AMZ includes students from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and ETH Zurich, and I dropped in on the team's Swiss HQ.

AMZ 的成員包括盧塞恩應用科學與藝術大學和蘇黎世聯邦理工學院的學生。

And up here is the electronics department at AMZ Racing.

上面是 AMZ 車隊的電子部門。

We're going to meet Lara.

我們要去見勞拉

Not that Lara.

不是那個勞拉

For one car to excel at all of these events, it not only has to have a powerful motor, but also computers have to control the traction and fine-tune the speed of each wheel individually, and somehow it has to stick to the ground to give the tyres more grip.

一輛汽車要想在所有這些項目中表現出色，不僅要有強大的發動機，還必須由計算機控制牽引力，並對每個車輪的速度進行單獨微調，而且還必須以某種方式緊貼地面，使輪胎具有更強的抓地力。

AMZ achieved this with powerful fans that actually sucked the ultralight vehicle to the tarmac.

AMZ 利用強大的風扇將超輕型車輛吸到停機坪上，從而實現了這一目標。

Are you building on last year's design, or have you completely reinvented anything?

您是以去年的設計為基礎，還是完全重新設計了什麼？

Every year we design a completely new race car.

我們每年都會設計一款全新的賽車。

I mean, of course, we orient ourselves on the fans we had.

我的意思是，當然，我們以我們擁有的粉絲為導向。

We improved not the same concept, but kind of is based on the same physics behind it.

我們改進的概念不一樣，但背後的物理原理是一樣的。

Is this something you want to do in the future?

這是你將來想做的嗎？

Do you want to work on, like, racing cars?

你想從事賽車之類的工作嗎？

I mean, it'd definitely be fun and really interesting, but I'm not sure yet.

我的意思是，這肯定會很有趣，非常有意思，但我還不確定。

We'll see.

我們拭目以待。

Depends how it goes this year, right?

要看今年的情況如何，對吧？

Yeah.

是啊

And, yeah, the point of this competition is less about the winning and more about the learning.

是的，比賽的意義不在於獲勝，而在於學習。

Getting to work on such a project during your studies is an incredible knowledge gain.

能在學習期間參與這樣一個項目，是一種令人難以置信的知識收穫。

I mean, if I compare myself three years ago before I joined the association, I knew very little about engineering compared to what I do now.

我的意思是，如果我拿三年前加入協會之前的自己與現在的自己相比，我對工程學知之甚少。

There are some things that might get adopted in industry.

有些東西可能會被工業界採用。

However, I think the main thing is just to really get those engineers all ready to have some practical experience during their studies.

不過，我認為最主要的還是要讓這些工程師們真正做好準備，在學習期間獲得一些實踐經驗。

So, about that acceleration challenge.

那麼，關於加速挑戰。

Now, after last year's Formula Student competition, the team decided to specifically re-engineer the car to try and break the world acceleration record and go from 0 to 100 kilometres an hour in the shortest time for an electric car.

去年的大學生方程式比賽結束後，車隊決定對汽車進行專門的重新設計，以打破世界加速記錄，在最短的時間內從 0 加速到 100 公里/小時。

This was the vehicle and the target time.

這就是車輛和目標時間。

Well, that was already astonishing.

嗯，這已經很驚人了。

So, in 2016, ETH held the record 0 to 100 kilometres an hour in?

那麼，在 2016 年，ETH 保持了 0 到 100 公里的時速記錄在哪裡？

1.513 seconds.

1.513 秒

OK, one and a half seconds.

好吧，一秒半。

One and a half seconds.

一秒半

OK.

好的。

And then in 2022, Stuttgart came along and did it in?

然後到了 2022 年，斯圖加特來了，然後就把它做掉了？

1.46, so about five hundredths of a second.

1.46，約為五百分之一秒。

And then last year, you came along and did 0 to 100 kilometres an hour in how much?

然後去年，你出現了，從 0 到 100 公里的時速只用了多少時間？

A bit less than a second. 0.956. 0 to 60 in less than a second.

不到一秒0.956.0到60英里不到一秒

What does that feel like?

那是什麼感覺？

It feels insane.

這感覺太瘋狂了。

So, you just feel this push and you can't even blink, it's already over.

所以，你只感覺到一股推力，你甚至來不及眨眼，它就已經結束了。

Do you have time to do any steering or do you have to hope it's pointing in the right direction?

您是否有時間進行任何轉向，還是隻能寄希望於它指向正確的方向？

You have to hope that it points in the right direction, but this we control before every start and there is maybe a little bit of steering, but it's just intuitive.

你必須希望它指向正確的方向，但這是我們在每次啟動前控制的，也許會有一點轉向，但這只是直觀的。

Now, when I visited AMZ a few weeks before this summer's competition, I got to witness the very first day of testing this year's brand new car.

今年夏天比賽前幾周，我訪問了 AMZ，親眼目睹了今年全新汽車測試的第一天。

Expectations were high.

期望很高。

All our cameras were set to catch the high speed action.

我們所有的攝影機都被設置成捕捉高速動作。

And...

還有

Was that close to the world record?

這接近世界紀錄嗎？

I'm not an expert, but...

我不是專家，但...

OK, look, this was actually just a test to see if all the computers and sensors were talking to each other.

好吧，聽著，這其實只是一個測試，看看所有的電腦和傳感器是否都能互相對話。

The fact the car moved at all was considered a success.

這輛車能動起來就已經很成功了。

But come the Formula Student Tournament itself, AMZ did brilliantly, winning events in Switzerland, Hungary and the biggest one in Germany.

但在大學生方程式錦標賽上，AMZ 表現出色，贏得了瑞士、匈牙利和德國最大賽事的冠軍。

And equally importantly, the next generation of engineers has done its qualifying lap. you

同樣重要的是，下一代工程師已經完成了他們的排位賽。