The demand for EVs has been in decline and hybrids for more than a year worldwide can eat in sales; However, electric cars continue to push the limits of performance. Yesterday we dealt with the GT XX of Mercedes-AMG Endurance records in Nardò in Italy.
We’ve got yet another ev grabbing the headlines today: Byd’s yangwang u9 track edition has set a new world top-speed record for electric vehicles, Hitting 472.41 km/h (293.54 mph) at Papenburg’s Massive Saxy) Ovalmometer) Vbox Timing and on-board Footage Confirmed the 472.41 km/h top speed figure.
This makes the U9 track edition the fastest road-legal EV in history, which surpasses the Rimac Nevera, which previously held the fastest production EV crown at 412 km/h (256 mph) in July of this year. For a context of how some of the fastest gas models are compared, Bugattis found 490.48 km/h (304.77 MPH) Chiron Super Sport 300+ Run record in 2019, with Andy Wallace on the wheel, place at VW’s Privé Ehra-Lessien-Border, near the old East German border.
Now, it is Worth to note that the U9 is not Faster than the absolute electric country speed record holders, such as the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3, a specially built fully electric power liner, which has a record of 549 km/h (342 mph), in 2016 on the salt apartments of Bonneville in Utah. The difference is that such vehicles are one-off prototypes and not road-legal hypercars.
But come back to the U9. Yangwang may not be an understanding, but the automaker is the luxury arm of the Chinese brand, build your dreams (byd). For those who are not aware, BYD Tesla has already surpassed Global EV and plug-in hybrid sale, thanks to the enormous model range and dominance in China. While Tesla sells fewer cars with a higher margin (still waiting for the New-Age Roadster announced in 2017), BYD’s scale and vertical integration have made the world’s largest maker of electrified vehicles. The Yangwang U9 (above) is BYD’s flagship Hyper-EV under their luxury sub-brand.
The track edition is a strongly reworked evolution of the standard U9 that characterizes four 240-KW engines for a combined 1,287 hp. The track edition upgrade to four TZ240xya engines, pushes 3,019 hp and runs on an electrical architecture of 1200 volts and improved cooling. It also contains track-oriented hardware, including a roof of carbon fiber, a large fixed wing, adjustable diffuser blades and 20-inch wheels wrapped in wide tires of 325 sections.
Both versions use BYD’s individual wheel drive and the viral disus-x active suspension that the car can literally hang. The record-breaking track edition is tailored to extreme durability and performance at speed, and even weighs slightly more on slightly less than 6000 pounds, but the extra power more than compensates.
After the U9, China continues to make waves in the fully electric space. The NIO EP9 once shocked the world by walking a 6: 45.9 round in the Nürburgring in 2017, making it the fastest EV on the Green Hell at the time, with two more records on the circuit of America (Cota) that followed. Subsequently, in June of this year we reported on Xiaomi’s four-door electric sedan, the SU7 prototype, which set up a sizzling Nürburgring round of 6: 22,091, not only undermines NIO but also various established hypercars in the ‘Ring.
For BYD, the launch of Yangwang is about proving that Chinese car manufacturers can also play in the same competition as the Bugattis, Koenigseggs and Rimacs of the World, all at a considerably lower price, of course (starting somewhere between $ 230,000 and $ 250,000). These high -speed runs also validate the safety of the battery, thermal management and rapid stability. This translates in better charging, more reliable engines, innovation and technology that hopefully have to drip into mass market-EVs.
Source: Byd Global
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