Etiqueta: Yangwang U9

China’s BYD has smashed records with its Yangwang U9 Xtreme, clocking in at 496km/h.

BYD's YANGWANG U9 Xtreme breaks the world production car speed record at 308.4 mph, dethroning Bugatti and redefining hypercar performance with electric power.

Bugatti has lost its title: BYD's 2,220 kW fully electric hypercar Yangwang U9 Xtreme set a new world record in Papenburg with a speed of 496.22 kph. Driven

The Yangwang U9 Xtreme has set a new world record as the fastest production car, hitting 308.4 mph in Germany. The electric hypercar eclipses the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ and redefines the limits of road-legal speed.

Papenburg, Germany -- YANGWANG, the luxury sub-brand of global new-energy vehicle (NEV) leader BYD, has set a new global production-car top-speed record of 496.22km/h at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany.

We can hardly believe that an EV in the form of BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme dethrones Bugatti Chiron Super Sport to become the world's fastest production car

BYD’s YangWang U9 Extreme broke the 300 mph barrier earlier this month in Germany.

Big news from Papenburg, Germany

BYD's YangWang U9 Extreme has set a new speed record of 308mph, with the electric hypercar dethroning the Bugatti Chiron.

Over the weekend, BYD announced on a RedNote livestream that the U9 Xtreme version has now broken the overall production car top speed record, clocking in at 496.22 km/h (308.37 mph). The car had just set the EV top speed record of 472.41 km/h a few weeks ago.  In addition, in its first test at the Nürburgring, it set the EV lap record at 6:59.157. BYD also implied that the top speed was limited by the 500 km/h-rated tires, as the car was still accelerating at the recorded speed. And the lap time was also just the start, with the car electronically limited to 350 km/h.