Byd's 2,959-hp Yangwang U9 Track Edition Hits 293.54 Mph, Crushing Rimac's Ev Top Speed Record

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When BYD launched nan Yangwang U9 past year it announced nan electrical supercar had a apical velocity of 243 mph, making it nan fastest Chinese accumulation car by a longshot and faster than a McLaren F1. But it was still 13 mph awkward of the Rimac Nevera's world grounds 256-mph apical speed, which nan Croatian automaker surpassed this twelvemonth by hitting 268 mph successful nan Nevera R. BYD couldn't person that, truthful it has launched a caller Track Edition type of nan Yangwang U9 that has an absurd 2,959 horsepower from its 4 electrical motors, 1,672 hp much than nan normal U9 and 852 hp much than nan Nevera R. The institution put nan U9 Track Edition's horsepower to bully usage astatine nan Automotive Testing Papenburg way successful Germany, mounting a caller EV apical velocity grounds of 293.54 mph (472.41 kph).

That makes it 1 of nan fastest cars successful nan world afloat stop, beating moreover the Koenigsegg Agera RS. The apical velocity tally was done pinch German title car driver Marc Besseng astatine nan wheel, who had driven the basal U9 to its apical velocity past year. But, arsenic pinch galore automotive records for illustration this, location are a fewer mini caveats.

The U9 Track Edition utilized for nan apical velocity tally was fitted pinch a rotation cage and racing seat, emblematic for way testing for illustration this. BYD says it was fitted pinch "a track-focused semi-slick tire" developed successful collaboration with Giti Tire, which has "optimised compound materials and a bespoke tread design, [and] an innovative knurling curen astatine nan wheel-rim interface, mixed pinch high-viscosity lubricant, minimises comparative slippage betwixt nan tyre and nan rim during difficult acceleration aliases braking." It's unclear whether these tires will beryllium thoroughfare ineligible and disposable to customers. Otherwise, everything astir nan car was production-spec, including its unthinkable suspension strategy that not only negates transportation and rotation but can jump complete potholes, and nan electrical motors that rotation to 30,000 rpm and independently set torque to each instrumentality much than 100 times per second. Aside from an optional carbon-fiber beforehand splitter, nan Track Edition's aerodynamics are nan aforesaid arsenic nan normal U9's.

BYD besides only conducted nan apical velocity tally successful 1 direction. It depends connected nan certification body, but typically for genuinely "official" world records, nan car needs to group a apical velocity successful some directions, pinch nan existent fig being an mean of nan two. But when Bugatti became nan first automaker to surpass 300 mph pinch nan Chiron Super Sport, it only did truthful successful 1 direction, and that grounds is surely valid. Another EV shaper could travel successful pinch a little apical velocity that was taken arsenic an mean and declare nan grounds connected that technicality. 

Who cares! This freakin' point deed 293 mph! People emotion to talk astir really EV capacity falls disconnected astatine higher speeds, but watching nan Yangwang's telemetry successful nan video of nan apical velocity tally will unopen them up. Besseng maintains a ton of velocity successful nan banking, and past erstwhile he reaches that last consecutive it's for illustration nan car goes into hyperdrive. The measurement it accelerates from 250 mph is unbelievable.