Yangwang just set a new top speed record with its , going 293.5 mph in a speed test and making it what the Chinese marque says is the world’s fastest EV.

The U9 costs something like a quarter-million dollars, and it originally when it was first announced. That number was clearly lowballing it a little bit, as within months. Then the hypercar later last year, behind, among EVs, only the Aspark Owl, which has gone 272.6 mph, and the , which has gone 268 mph.

The U9 has now surpassed those cars during a run at a track in Germany earlier this month. The 2,959 horsepower (you read that right) U9 Track Edition did the run powered by its four electric motors on August 8, with Yangwang . WATCH

The hypercar achieved that 293.5 mph with a torque-vectoring system that, impressively, can change th

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