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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.
The Tesla is also a 5000lb sedan which is problematic when you want to corner or brake at high speed on a track.
Indeed. Here's a youtube vid of the car on Das Ring
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Enjoy!
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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 ...
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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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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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.