A Yangwang U9 Xtreme has just become the first production car to exceed 500km\/h. It managed a staggering 503.17km\/h<\/b> on a closed section of the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed International Road in Abu Dhabi. Yangwang is the luxury arm of BYD.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s an impressive feat, it\u2019s worth\u00a0mentioning\u00a0that\u00a0this feat\u00a0was achieved with a heavily modified version of the Yangwang U9 Xtreme.\u00a0The car used had upgraded electric motors and produced a whopping 2,978hp<\/b> \u2013 more than twice the U9\u2019s standard output of \u201cjust\u201d 1,252hp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In doing so, Yangwang says it has claimed\u00a0the\u00a0Guinness World Records for highest speed achieved by a production car in a single-direction run,\u00a0and\u00a0highest speed achieved\u00a0by an electric production car in a single-direction run.<\/p>\n
It broke its own single-direction record of 496.22km\/h set last year at Germany\u2019s ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg.<\/p>\n The record was performed on a closed stretch of road in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n Photo: Yangwang<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n You might notice that it isn\u2019t the fastest production car in the world – that title still belongs to the SSC Tuatara<\/b>, which managed 455.3km\/h back in 2021.\u00a0That\u2019s because a\u00a0bi-directional\u00a0run is required to claim that record, to remove any environmental variables (gradient in the road,\u00a0and\u00a0wind, etc.), and the Yangwang only managed that top speed in one direction.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear why Yangwang didn\u2019t head back in the opposite direction. One can only assume that conditions were unfavourable in the other direction.\u00a0Regardless, going past 500km\/h, even in one direction, in a car, is a huge achievement.<\/p>\n Naturally, the feat has garnered quite a lot of attention in our forum, and if you want to join in the discussion, click here.<\/p>\n Source: BYD\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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