Creating The NextEV’s New NIO EP9 Electric Supercar – Video

If a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap is a widely accepted benchmark by which speed is judged, the EP9 can be considered the fastest electric car in the world, thanks to its 7,05.12 EV laptime record around the ‘Ring; quite a bit faster than the previous 7,22.329 record accomplished by a Toyota TMG EV P002 in 2012. To back that up, the EP9 also managed a 1,52.78 lap around the Paul Ricard circuit in France, besting the earlier electric vehicle lap record of two minutes, 40 seconds. To keep the vehicle’s dirty side down, the aerodynamics have been honed to produce 24,000 Newtons of downforce at 240 kilometers an hour.

As claimed earlier, the EP9 manages a megawatt of power, or 1360 horsepower. There are four electric motors, with four gearboxes, accelerating the vehicle from standstill to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds and to 200 km/h (124.3 mph) in just 7.1 seconds, continuing all the way to its top speed of 313 km/h or 200mph. NextEV says the battery system is swappable, able to be charged in 45 minutes and it provides a range of 427 km or 265 miles.