Chinese car giant BYD has claimed it has created the world's fastest production car - and it's electric. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme (U9X) hypercar - made by BYD's sub-brand Yangwang - delivered a hair ...

Now it has gone (much) further and has defeated the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300+, which in 2019 set the record that, until today, was at the top of the historical speed charts: 304.77 mph. The ...

Chinese car giant BYD has claimed it has created the world's fastest production car - and it's electric. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme (U9X) hypercar - made by BYD's sub-brand Yangwang - delivered a hair ...

Volkswagen’s ludicrous electric racer was built with the intention of smashing the Pikes Peak record. It did it in under eight minutes, a time that hasn’t been beaten since, and also went on to break ...

Chances are you’ll recall our last mention of the Yangwang U9 - because it was less than a month ago, and it covered its maker’s attempts to extract ludicrous speed from a 3,000hp version of its ...

Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport 300+ was the world’s official fastest production car with a top speed of 490.48km/h. But now Yangwang have claimed this record with a 496.22km/h run with their U9 Xtreme ...

Yangwang knows simply becoming the fastest car on the planet is not the ball game. No, mastering a tricky, terrifying bit of tarmac in the middle of a forest is the ultimate test, and it has done just ...

SINGAPORE, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- It was just slightly more than a month ago that BYD was able to set new EV land speed record equipped with the GitiSport e.GTR2 Pro tires, a tire pattern that ...

BYD - YANGWANG, the luxury sub-brand of global new-energy vehicle (NEV) leader BYD, has set a new global production-car top-speed record of 496.22km/h at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg test ...

When electric vehicles first came around, they had a lot of problems. They looked ugly, couldn't cover long distances, and most importantly, lacked speed and power. This made them unappealing to both ...