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New Delhi: Chinese EV maker BYD are unstoppable it seems, with their Yangwang U9 Xtreme. Recently, the car took the Nurburgring Nordschleife’s quickest production EV record ever, clocking in six minutes and 58.157 seconds around a 20.8 km track. It is the latest record broken.
A while back, the all-electric hypercar;s Track Edition set the record for the highest top speed achieved by an EV in August when it set a record of 472.41 kph.
The Yangwang U9 Xtreme is 5.8 seconds quicker than the previous record holder, the Xiaomi all-electric SU7 Ultra sedan equipped with a Track Package. The 1,548 bhp SU7 Ultra had a lap time of 7:04:957, which had dethroned the Rimac Nevera hypercar.
Yangwang, BYD’s premium sub-brand, had GT4, GT3 and MP3 driver Moritz Kranz at the wheel, who has 60 races in his name. He piloted the U9 Xtreme around the Nurburgring. The brand had been testing the U9 at the Nordschleife since July 2024 for collecting data.
In terms of the quickest production car around the Nurburgring Nordschleife, it is the ICE-powered Mercedes-AMG One that is still at the top of the list, which had a lap time of 6:29:09 seconds. That makes the U9 half a minute slower than the Mercedes. The timing is, in fact, more comparable to the likes of the Lamborghini Aventador SV and Manthley Kit-equipped Porsche 911 GT3, which are much less powerful.
The Yanwang U9 Xtreme comes with an 80 kWh LFP battery pack that comes with a quad-motor setup, one for which wheel. These motors can spin up to around 30,000 rpm and make an output of 3,000 bhp. This is around double the power of a standard Yangwang U9, which makes close to 1,305 bhp.
It is, of course, an upgraded version that took the challenge of the Nurburgring lap time and apart from the power surge, it comes with an efficient cooling system, specific tweaks for the DiSus-X body control system, titanium-alloy carbon ceramic brakes and GitiSport semi-slick tyres. It comes with a huge wing that aids in giving it more downforce, which wasn’t there for the Yangwang U9 that broke the EV top speed record.
