BYD Yangwang U9 Xtreme units new manufacturing automotive pace document – 496.22 km/h beats Bugatti and Rimac

In August this 12 months, BYD revealed it had set a brand new electrical car (EV) prime pace document of 472.41 km/h with its Yangwang U9 Observe Version. Not content material with that outcome, the Chinese language carmaker returned to the high-speed oval earlier this month and managed a good larger prime pace of 496.22 km/h.

The returning electrical hypercar, now referred to as the Yangwang U9 Excessive, achieved this feat on the Automotive Testing Papenburg take a look at observe in Germany, which was the place the earlier document was set. With a prime pace of 496.22, the U9 Xtreme (previously U9 Observe Version) additional extends its lead over the earlier EV prime pace document holder, the Rimac Nevera r that managed 431.45 km/h.

If that isn’t sufficient, the BYD EV can be the world’s quickest manufacturing automotive, eclipsing the Bugatti Chiron Tremendous Sport 300+ that hit 490.484 km/h again in August 2019. Nonetheless, as a result of the U9 Xtreme’s document was solely logged in a single path, the SSC Tuatara nonetheless retains the official two-way common title with 455.3 km/h.

To get to the face-melting prime pace, the U9 Excessive packs loads of energy, with every of its 4 electrical motors rated at 755 PS (744 hp or 555 kW) for a complete system output of three,018 PS (2,977 hp or 2,220 kW). That is greater than double that of an everyday U9 that packs 1,306 PS (1,287 hp or 960 kW).

The U9 Xtreme can be the primary manufacturing EV to utilise a 1,200-volt electrical structure and has considerably denser batteries, the latter able to a 30C ultra-high discharge price. The dampers even have a wider bandwidth, whereas the suspension hardpoint constructions have been optimised for wider tyres and aviation-grade aluminium alloy is used for the entrance and rear suspension arms to work with the optimised suspension geometry.

Different upgrades embrace titanium alloy brake callipers and customized tyres that may face up to the calls for of excessive speeds as much as over 500 km/h. Will you be capable of purchase one? Sure, however solely 30 models are scheduled to be constructed, with every unit more likely to value considerably greater than a typical U9 that begins at 1.68 million yuan (about RM994k).

If securing two prime pace titles wasn’t a sufficiently big flex, BYD additionally revealed that the U9 Xtreme lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 6:59.157 minutes, successfully stealing the EV manufacturing automotive document from the Xiaomi SU7 Extremely that set a time of 7:04.957 minutes earlier this 12 months.

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