It feels like yesterday that the Internet was full of the news that Xiaomi, better known for its smartphones, watches and portable devices, broke the electric car record in the infamous Nurburring of Germany.
The ULTRA defeated the formidable Porsche Taycan Turbo GT and the Rimac fridge of $ 2.5m, as well as shame the picture box of the Tesla S model, in itself a car that embarrassed many performance marks dedicated when it established a time of blisters in 2021.
Now Yangwang has made a similar feat, breaking a maximum EV -speed record when reaching an eye of 293.54 mph on the ATP test track in Germany.
He beat the previous records held by Aspark Owl and Rimac Nevera. Yes, another blow to the brand whose CEO is now the Hongch Chief in Bugatti.
The fact that the Xiaomi Su7 improved a Porsche Taycan Turbo GT in its first round around the nurburgring is slightly shameful
The Yangwang U9, which is just a model of the high performance sub -performance of byd, is particularly impressive given its innovative electric motor train. The track edition established by the album presents four engines, each of which develops an amazing 744bhp.
The total exit tickles almost 3,000 hp, while the intelligent torque vectorization system guarantees the majority of this growl can be delivered to the monitoring road and adjusting the torque to each wheel more than 100 times per second.
There is also an intelligent body control system, which automatically adjusts the suspension system for the maximum grip and reduction of tone and roll. The same technology allows the standard car of the Salta road on the potholes.
In addition, Yangwang says that he is a pioneer on an ultra-voltage vehicle platform of 1200V in this car, one that has been optimized to handle the type of battery discharge extreme stages experienced during a high-speed record attempt.
China clearly has absolute domain in battery technology and is currently ahead of Western car manufacturers both in chemistry and production capabilities.
At this time, an 800 V system is considered avant -garde and is enough to see the batteries annoyed in less than five minutes of the most powerful load stations. Yangwang did not go into details, but we hope that this edition of Track U9 can sip the juice of a megawatt loading station at surprising rates.
Nor is it known what the tailored track edition would cost a private buyer, but the ‘standard car’, complete with about 1,300 hp, went on sale in 2024 at a price of 1.68 million yuan (or around $ 236,000 / £ 193,000 / au $ 400,000).
To put that in perspective, that is more than the current Ferrari F80, which costs almost $ 4 million if you were lucky to be invited to buy one.
Changing perceptions
Despite the impressive feats demonstrated by Xiaomi and Yangwang, the general feeling among American and European performance cars enthusiasts is that the threat is largely overvalued, which is “easy to make electric cars go rapidly in a straight line” or that no one is going to spend their effective won on something math.
While it is true that the value of the brand is possibly one of the most important factors when it comes to the world of luxury and yield cars (Ferrari’s profits reached $ 2.67 billion last year), the era of electrification is changing all that and the Italian brand could not experience the same success when it launches its EV debut this year.
I lost the account of the number of times that the phrase ‘Temu Ferrari’ was placed in the comments sections
Porsche said this week that he has discarded his Division of High Performance Batteries of Celforce, which was created to produce the type of next -generation cells that would feed the next electric cars, such as the concept of mission X of Mission X before seeing.
The German sports car manufacturer said that a “global lack of volumes” means that it is not financially viable to proceed with their plans to develop their own batteries. It has also slowed its transition to purely electric vehicles, since customer demand has been relatively weak.
Performance that does not cost the land
China clearly has absolute domain in battery technology and is currently ahead of Western car manufacturers both in chemistry and production capabilities, but it is also demonstrating that it now has technical knowledge to produce brutally capable electrical performance cars.
The fact that the Xiaomi Su7 improved a Porsche Taycan Turbo GT in its first round around the nurburgring is slightly shameful, especially for a brand that has been building and car races for more than 75 years.
Chinese brands are already occupied causing the electric vehicle to be more affordable for the masses, but it is also in a mission democratize performance
Similarly, Yangwang seems to have the technological skill to produce a version of the U9 that could decipher the maximum speed barrier of 300 mph, something that was achieved by physics, $ 4 million+ Bugatti Chiron Super Sport last year.
In a nutshell, China is busy crushing records of electric vehicles and many are still firm that brands are somehow of lower or cheaper quality. I lost the account of the number of times that the phrase ‘Temu Ferrari’ was placed in the comments sections of several news coverage.
Chinese brands are already occupied causing the electric vehicle to be more affordable for the masses, but it is also in a mission democratize performance. A fact that has many of the most revered brands that return to the drawing table.
In China, both Yangwang U9 and Xiaomi Su7 have proven to be great sales successes for both brands, since the domestic market turns naturally towards the latest technological advances.
It is still about to be seen if the rest of the world even wants EV of high performance of this nature, but if it does, China will be there to offer them to a price fraction.
