In recent years, BYD, which has shown a strong momentum in the field of new energy vehicles, has not only eaten away at the former's electric energy market with BEVs and PHEVs, but also launched a luxury sub-brand to try to get involved in the high-end market where 1A2B is located! Since it is said to look up, then we have to mention BYD's four-motor pure electric supercar U9 announced in January 2023 and officially launched in February 2024.
This 1,680,000-dollar, 1,300-horsepower Chinese supercar has recently been seen haunting the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany, and there was also a scene of intense driving until the brake disc turned red due to the high temperature! Looking up to the U9 in the green hell, is it to break the lap record of the Chinese brand and even its class?
In February this year, the 1.68 million price of Yangwang U9 was officially announced, although it has begun to take orders, but Yangwang did not give a detailed delivery schedule, but it has been confirmed that the new car will land in the British Goodwood Speed Carnival (Goodwood Festival of Speed) that opened in mid-July, for its European premiere! Although the new car has been exhibited in the domestic market many times, the two test cars that were witnessed in the green hell this time are still covered with checkered camouflage stickers on the body to hide people's eyes, but the unique design vocabulary of the time and space gate and the huge carbon fiber rear wing at the rear of the car bring eye-catching recognition characteristics to the U9 that cannot be misunderstood.
The U9's aggressive exterior design is just to attract attention, with a low-profile body with 6 airflow channels and 12 active and passive aero kits, while solving the heat dissipation problems of the high-performance electric module and bringing the downforce required for intense driving on the track! Underneath the body is a carbon fibre monocoque cockpit.
According to the data released by BYD, it is pointed out that the current U9's carbon fiber monocoque cockpit is not only 30% lighter than the metal versions such as steel and aluminum, but also has an excellent torsional rigidity of 54425N·m/deg, showing the advantages of carbon fiber materials in the two fields of lightweight and rigidity.
With a track length of 20.8 kilometers, the importance of excellent power output and chassis strength may outweigh aeropower, looking up to the U9 equipped with two motors on the front and rear axles, forming a rare four-motor four-drive layout in the current car industry, with a total of 1,300 horsepower and 171.3 kilograms of peak torque, creating excellent performance of 0~100km/h in 2.36 seconds, 0~400m acceleration in 9.78 seconds and top speed of 309.19km/h!
On the control side, in addition to the blessing of the high-rigidity carbon fiber monomer, it is also equipped with the Yunlin X active dynamic control system, which can adjust the stroke of the air pressure suspension through various detectors to eliminate the roll phenomenon, and stabilize the body dynamics to achieve the purpose of improving the lap speed. But it's a pity that we shouldn't see the U9 lap results in the short term, because the senior management revealed on Weibo that this trip to Germany is mainly for testing purposes, and whether to challenge the green hell in the future may depend on the test results of this trip.