Nio EP9 EV Smashes Huracan Performante 'Ring Lap With 6min 45sec Effort
Back when NextEV’s Nio EP9 electric hypercar clocked a 7min 5sec Nurburgring lap time, we were told by the test drivers that it wasn’t running at 100 per cent for any part of the effort. The reason was heat management of the batteries: take that issue away, and Nelson Piquet Jr reckoned it would be good for a “six minute 40-something lap”. He was right.
We’re not entirely sure what the team behind the effort did to stop the batteries from heating up too much (we’re currently trying to find out), but whatever they did clearly worked. Nio is claiming an astonishing 6min 45.9sec lap, some six seconds faster than the Lamborghini Huracan Performante. It’s faster even than the Radical SR9 LM.
There’s no video of the lap just yet, but as with Nio’s last ‘Ring effort - itself record-breaking - we’re sure one will follow.
As for whether or not you can call the EP9 the fastest production car at the Nurburgring is - as ever with with these Nordschleife laps - open to debate. Only six were due to be made, with Nio announcing along with the ‘Ring news that 10 more will be built.
That stretches the term ‘production car’ a tad, but regardless, that’s one hell of a time.
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Electric fanboys: Electric cars are always the best!!
GTR fanboys: GTR WilL SmoKe ThAt caR!!!!
I thought this was a weird time to post something but then i realized ive been up for 3 hours reading car posts and its 2:30 in the morning here so its 8:30 in England where CT is
Nick Heidfeld, BMW, Nurburgring Nordschleife, 2007
Ouch.
Meh
Koenigsegg, please take back the crown for the petrolheads!
^^^
I’m quite sure that after the regera the next one is going to be a “real” petrolheads car. With much glorious noise. And even better times for everything
Koenigsegg and Pagani (maybe Mazda too) are both legends
So becouse I love EV’s I’m not a petrolhead?
If they could drive the One:1
They probably disabled the heat management and now the batteries are mush. But hey… if you have the money to buy the car, you probably have money to change the batteries every lap.
Lol I posted this yesterday
The future is bright!