https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1117295_nio-ep9-sets-fastest-time-for-street-legal-cars-at-goodwood-festival-of-speed#image=100662250 Nio EP9 sets fastest time for street-legal cars at Goodwood Festival of Speed Jul 15, 2018 Viknesh Vijayenthiran
[images https://images.hgmsites.net/med/nio-ep9-at-the-2018-goodwood-festival-of-speed_100662255_m.jpg https://images.hgmsites.net/med/nio-ep9-at-the-2018-goodwood-festival-of-speed_100662251_m.jpg https://images.hgmsites.net/med/nio-ep9-at-the-2018-goodwood-festival-of-speed_100662253_m.jpg https://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/nio-ep9-at-the-2018-goodwood-festival-of-speed_100662252_l.jpg Nio EP9 at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed video https://youtu.be/OUwajIrA8iE NIO EP9 is fastest road car on slicks at FOS EVER ] Nio EP9's electric hypercar has set the fastest time for a street-legal car in the Goodwood Festival of Speed's famous hill climb. The car ran a time of 44.61 seconds during Saturday's Supercar shootout event, which eclipsed the previous time of 47.07 set by a McLaren P1 LM by Lanzante in 2016. Doing the driving was Scottish racing driver Peter Dumbreck. The overall record still stands at 41.6 seconds, set by Nick Heidfeld in a McLaren MP4/13 Formula 1 car back in 1999. We should point out that the EP9, like the P1 LM, isn't a regular production car, as just 16 examples are planned. Also, the car's street-legal tires were swapped out for racing slicks for this weekend's hill climb. Still, the EP9's run was incredible and a true sign that electric cars have the potential to rewrite the rule book on performance. We'll remind you that EP9 is also one of the fastest cars around the Nürburgring. It set a time of 6:45.90 around the Green Hell [ https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1110442_nio-ep9-sets-street-legal-nrburgring-record-with-645-9-blast ] in 2017, which for a street-legal is second only to the 6:43.22 set by the aforementioned P1 LM also in 2017. For readers unfamiliar with Nio, it is a Chinese electric startup that aims to become a mainstream brand worldwide. After securing the inaugural Formula E Championship title, Nio set out to build the EP9 electric supercar. The car features four electric motors delivering a combined 1,342 horsepower and 1,091 pound-feet of torque. The power is enough to rocket the EP9 from 0-60 mph in 2.7 seconds to a top speed of 195 mph. Following the supercar, Nio unveiled its first mass-market vehicle, the ES8 electric SUV in China last year. Starting at roughly $68,000, the electric SUV returns an estimated 220 miles of range with its dual-electric motors and 70-kilowatt-hour battery pack. Nio also has plans to offer battery swapping in as little as three minutes. Such a service would render the ES8's electric driving range limitations moot. Of course, the company has to build the infrastructure to make that service viable. Deliveries of the SUV will begin this year following some final testing, Nio said this month. As for the EP9 supercar, Nio originally intended to build six examples with a price tag of $1.48 million each. However, last year, the Chinese brand said it would build 10 more. It's unclear if any copies will ever make their way to the United States. Future models are planned for sale here [ https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1110908_nio-wants-to-sell-a-level-4-self-driving-car-in-us-in-2020 ], though. [© 2018 MotorAuthority] ... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sports%20Wood A slang term to express how desireable or impressive ... ... https://www.nio.io/ep9 NIO - EP9 NextEV has launched an outperforming electric supercar as its first product in London on November 21st. The NIO EP9 is a 1360 bhp, 3G capable, electric ... ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIO_EP9 The NIO EP9 is an electric-powered, two-seat sports car manufactured by NIO, assisted by their Formula E racing division. It holds several track records. Electric range?: ?427 km (265 mi) Battery?: ?lithium ion batteries Electric motor?: ?Indirectly water-cooled motors ... Curb weight?: ?1,735 kg (3,825 lb) ... ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=EP9&sort=date Search evdl archive on EP9 + (ID-R not st-legal) https://www.autosport.com/historics/news/137447/vw-id-r-beats-goodwood-electric-car-record Pikes Peak-winning VW I.D. R smashes Goodwood electric car record July 15th 2018 -8 minutes ago Volkswagen's all-electric I.D. R has smashed the official Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb record for electric vehicles, beating the existing time by 3.5 ... https://d2d0b2rxqzh1q5.cloudfront.net/sv/1.67/dir/f36/image/f3654bfc5f53c574410729d00b936ea3.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
