Semikron and Visedo sponsor Electric Raceabout e-car project

The e-car Electric Raceabout, developed by the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, is an electric sports car which has already broken speed records of electric cars. With a speed of 252 km/h on a frozen lake in Finland, the Electric Raceabout now is the fastest electric vehicle in the world on ice.

It ranked 12th in the last Silvretta car race over a distance of 330 km, which is quite a success being the only e-car among the 28 participating vehicles which has been developed by a university. Mercedes with seven models and Volkswagen with four e-Golfs were among the participants.

“The electric drive, that is the inverter and motor, along with the battery are the key components of every electric vehicle. It is crucially important for us as a system integrator that the drive reacts quickly and reliably to our control system. The Visedo-Semikron inverter and the support provided by Visedo enabled us to implement new engines in our 4-motor electric sports car in only two months, and to set a new speed record shortly after,” said Sami Ruotsalainen, project manager of the Electric Raceabout at the University of Helsinki.