Video: Hear that? I hate to say, but that’s the sound of combustion engines dying, as the 1,400hp electric street legal ‘NIO EP9’ shatters Lamborghini’s Nurburgring Lap Record!
A Chinese electric performance car manufacturer has torn the previous Nordschleife record for a production car apart after its EP9 set a lap time of 6:45.9. The car, with separate electric motors for each wheel (making it AWD), boasts a hefty megawatt of power, or 1000kW. Because of this, and its 1480Nm of torque being available at all times, the EP9 has a claimed 0-200km/h of 7.1 seconds, and a top speed of 313km/h. Insane.
