ETH Zurich reporting:

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.

Thats is crazy fast - nearly 3Gs of acceleration in 12.3 meters or 40.35 feet!