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Chinese Start-Up Firm: NextEV has just set a new electric car lap record at the Nurburgring with its latest model the NIO EP9 Hypercar. How often have you heard a start-up company say they have gone one better than exist
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Chinese Start-Up Firm: NextEV has just set a new electric car lap record at the Nurburgring with its latest model the NIO EP9 Hypercar. How often have you heard a start-up company say they have gone one better than existing manufacturers, hardly ever. Well, welcome to the world of China where unknown firm NextEV has launched what it claims to be the world’s fastest electric car ever.
The 195mph NIO EP9 has lapped the track, NextEV claims, around 7m 05.12sec, or around 17 seconds faster than the previous electric car record. Indeed, to put that in context, the EP9’s time is only beaten in the all-time list by four cars, two of them racers, and the other two supercars from Porsche and Lamborghini. Yet this beast of a car, the EP9 can be recharged from flat in as little as 45 minutes, to offer a range of more than 265 miles. There is no guarantee that it will deliver this in production, but if it does, it has the potential to rewrite the rules of the hypercar market.
Written by the Season team. Hiring cars in London since 2006. Published December 2016.
