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China's NextEV NIO EP9 Claims To Be 'World's Fastest' Electric Supercar (hothardware.com)
Brandon Hill, writing for HotHardware: NextEV, a Chinese manufacturer that fields a team in Formula E, is looking to take the world by storm with its EP9. Launching under the NIO sub-brand, the EP9 is said to accelerate to 60 mph in just 2.7 seconds and can hit 124 mph in 7.1 seconds. After 15.9 seconds, the EP9 will be traveling at a heady 186 mph. The EV weighs 3,825 pounds, or 1,730kg (about 200 pounds heavier than the 918 Spyder), of which 1,400 pounds is devoted solely to the lithium-ion battery pack. Despite the fact that the EP9's motors combine to produce an astonishing 1390 horsepower, it still has a respectable driving range of 265 miles. So what do all of these performance numbers mean in the real world? Well, NextEV says that the EP9 is capable of lapping the famed Nurburgring Nordschleife race track in 7 minutes, 5 seconds. Interestingly enough, NextEV is claiming that the EP9 is the world's fastest EV, but we have the feeling that Rimac Automobili would take issue with that statement. Rimac's Concept_S can dash to 60 mph in just 2.5 seconds and can hit 186 mph in 13.5 seconds. Likewise, the Concept_S is capable of topping out at 226.8 mph, whereas NextEV hasn't provided a top speed for the EP9.
You either do a lap in that time or you do not, there is no 'capable'.
The Tesla is also a 5000lb sedan which is problematic when you want to corner or brake at high speed on a track.
headless then.
MPH ? Why not Avoidupois system insteand ? Or maybe ancient egyptian mesurement system.
Are we on /. or what ? Stuff that matters, such as using a practical unit system.
Ey, by the way, did you know that only 3 countries in the whole world have not moved yet officially to the universal metric system : Myanmar, Liberia and ..... the USA !
Years back, it was a pun intended but nowadays, it's starting to make phooey sense ;-)
Meahwhile, in the rest of the planet earth, people mostly use km/h to rank a car speed ...
1. What does any of this matter when, here in the U.S. anyway, you can't exceed 65mph without being in violation of the the law, and
2. Anything over 100mph is a felony?
They are talking about the maximum speed. Model S is limited to 155 MPH, this thing claims over 185.
Presumably they also tuned it for performance, it's very low, probably a stiff racing suspension etc. The Model S doesn't do too well on tracks because the battery tends to reach its thermal limit quite quickly, so presumably they had some powerful cooling systems to get that time on the Nurburgring.
Be interesting to know what size battery it has too. They state 265 miles range, so I'd guess 60-70kWh.
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Well... actually, That varies State by state. I see plenty of 70mph interstates around where I am, and doesn't Montana have 80mph speedlimits. (for a while they had no daytime speed limit in Montana- and since implementing speed limits ,fatalities have gone up and there is talk about removing them again).
That aside, I understand you sentiment that most of us would never get to enjoy the full performance option that a supercar offers.
Most of us won't be buying supercars either! If you can afford one, you can afford to take it to the track from time to time. What is impressive is that it shows electric vehicles are quickly demolishing the idea that it requires petrol to have high-performance.
This car looks cool, but I'd take the Tesla over it anyday, much more practical.
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Sell it as a kit-car in the US and they can ignore the safety standards.
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Be interesting to know what size battery it has too. They state 265 miles range, so I'd guess 60-70kWh.
I wonder if what you're looking for could be extracted from the fact the battery weight is 1,400 pounds (as compared to other 60-70kWh models)
On a related note, sitting on top of 1,400 pounds of lithium-ion, traveling at 180MPH+ speeds...what could possibly go wrong?
Given the fact that range is the FAR more relevant factor with consumers, I grow very tired of this bigger-dick contest between EV vendors.
About the time the White Zombie started hitting the drag races at Portland International Raceway. Look it up (though that's a purpose-built electric car that has two totally different modes- cruise around town slowly, or dump a full 1000 KW/h battery pack into two 1000 horsepower motors in 3.6 seconds for a quarter mile speed burn).
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TBH it doesn't sound any worse than sitting on top of gallons of flammable liquid in a car powered by explosions.
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As soon as there were two electric cars.
In the US we have these things called race tracks where there are no speed limits.
Well there's C.
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I grow very tired of this bigger-dick contest between EV vendors.
I know right. The petrol and Diesel vehicle makers have always been so responsible and have never pushed the performance angle.
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Limited by governing software like nearly all production street cars. What's actually possible absent the governor is quite likely much more. What would be more interesting is comparing how long they can respectively sustain these speeds.
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Perhaps part of the point is that Tesla's S for instance pulls comparable performance specs but does so while acing government safety tests.
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TBH it doesn't sound any worse than sitting on top of gallons of flammable liquid in a car powered by explosions.
If US safety standards were universal 150 years ago, there would be a lot more horses today.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Car companies have always had dick-measuring contests. This drives their engineers to find new, innovative solutions and try cutting edge things, of which many eventually make it into normal production cars. The publicity is also good.
SuperCar companies have always had dick-measuring contests.
For the other 99% of cars on the road, the metrics are quite a bit more sane, and dick-measuring with this kind of performance will not end well when someone sneezes behind the wheel of their new EV car, accidentally launching them across an intersection, pulling 3Gs and killing 17 people in a crosswalk in the blink of an eye.
There is a safety point to be taken into consideration, and EV vendors are not doing that with this constant race to 60MPH or faster. As I said before, it's range that should be the metric, not "ludicrous" speeds.
Let's put this another way. In 5 years when the average EV "family wagon" will do 0-60 in less than 2 seconds and top out at 200MPH, will you feel comfortable on the roads knowing teenagers are learning to drive with that under their novice foot?
Neither of those is true nationwide, so far as I know. Most states have allowed speeds above 65mph since the mid-90s, with only a handful of states keeping their maximum speeds under 70mph. For instance, here in Texas our speed limits go as high as 85mph in some parts of the state, though the fastest I see in everyday driving is 75mph.
As for anything over 100mph being a felony, maybe that's true where you live, but I doubt it's true here. In Texas we have prima facie speed limits, rather than absolute speed limits. Whereas in most states the very act of speeding is a crime in and of itself, in Texas and a few other states that isn't the case. Rather, when we get pulled over "for speeding", it's actually for going faster than what is considered safe for the conditions (the ticket will even have details about the road and environmental conditions at the time you were pulled over). You can contest the ticket in court if you lay out a case for why you were driving safely, despite exceeding the limit (e.g. common speed that day was higher than posted speed, so it would have been unsafe to drive at the posted speed). Likewise, if everyone is passing you while you drive the limit, you may find yourself getting ticketed for unsafe driving, regardless of the fact that you were at the speed limit.
Also, as others have pointed out, there are plenty of private race courses and the like at which people may want to push their cars to their limits.
Is the EP9 3D Printed? Or was fabrication not important?