China's NextEV NIO EP9 Claims To Be 'World's Fastest' Electric Supercar (hothardware.com) 56
Brandon Hill, writing for HotHardware: NextEV, a Chinese manufacturer that fields a team in Formula E, is looking to take the world by storm with its EP9. Launching under the NIO sub-brand, the EP9 is said to accelerate to 60 mph in just 2.7 seconds and can hit 124 mph in 7.1 seconds. After 15.9 seconds, the EP9 will be traveling at a heady 186 mph. The EV weighs 3,825 pounds, or 1,730kg (about 200 pounds heavier than the 918 Spyder), of which 1,400 pounds is devoted solely to the lithium-ion battery pack. Despite the fact that the EP9's motors combine to produce an astonishing 1390 horsepower, it still has a respectable driving range of 265 miles. So what do all of these performance numbers mean in the real world? Well, NextEV says that the EP9 is capable of lapping the famed Nurburgring Nordschleife race track in 7 minutes, 5 seconds. Interestingly enough, NextEV is claiming that the EP9 is the world's fastest EV, but we have the feeling that Rimac Automobili would take issue with that statement. Rimac's Concept_S can dash to 60 mph in just 2.5 seconds and can hit 186 mph in 13.5 seconds. Likewise, the Concept_S is capable of topping out at 226.8 mph, whereas NextEV hasn't provided a top speed for the EP9.
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2. Anything over 100mph is a felony?
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Well... actually, That varies State by state. I see plenty of 70mph interstates around where I am, and doesn't Montana have 80mph speedlimits. (for a while they had no daytime speed limit in Montana- and since implementing speed limits ,fatalities have gone up and there is talk about removing them again).
That aside, I understand you sentiment that most of us would never get to enjoy the full performance option that a supercar offers.
Most of us won't be buying supercars either! If you can afford one, you
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In the US we have these things called race tracks where there are no speed limits.
Well there's C.
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Neither of those is true nationwide, so far as I know. Most states have allowed speeds above 65mph since the mid-90s, with only a handful of states keeping their maximum speeds under 70mph [wikipedia.org]. For instance, here in Texas our speed limits go as high as 85mph in some parts of the state, though the fastest I see in everyday driving is 75mph.
As for anything over 100mph being a felony, maybe that's true where you live, but I doubt it's true here. In Texas we have prima facie speed limits, rather than absolute speed
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They are talking about the maximum speed. Model S is limited to 155 MPH, this thing claims over 185.
Presumably they also tuned it for performance, it's very low, probably a stiff racing suspension etc. The Model S doesn't do too well on tracks because the battery tends to reach its thermal limit quite quickly, so presumably they had some powerful cooling systems to get that time on the Nurburgring.
Be interesting to know what size battery it has too. They state 265 miles range, so I'd guess 60-70kWh.
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Be interesting to know what size battery it has too. They state 265 miles range, so I'd guess 60-70kWh.
I wonder if what you're looking for could be extracted from the fact the battery weight is 1,400 pounds (as compared to other 60-70kWh models)
On a related note, sitting on top of 1,400 pounds of lithium-ion, traveling at 180MPH+ speeds...what could possibly go wrong?
Given the fact that range is the FAR more relevant factor with consumers, I grow very tired of this bigger-dick contest between EV vendors.
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TBH it doesn't sound any worse than sitting on top of gallons of flammable liquid in a car powered by explosions.
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TBH it doesn't sound any worse than sitting on top of gallons of flammable liquid in a car powered by explosions.
If US safety standards were universal 150 years ago, there would be a lot more horses today.
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Car companies have always had dick-measuring contests. This drives their engineers to find new, innovative solutions and try cutting edge things, of which many eventually make it into normal production cars. The publicity is also good.
SuperCar companies have always had dick-measuring contests.
For the other 99% of cars on the road, the metrics are quite a bit more sane, and dick-measuring with this kind of performance will not end well when someone sneezes behind the wheel of their new EV car, accidentally launching them across an intersection, pulling 3Gs and killing 17 people in a crosswalk in the blink of an eye.
There is a safety point to be taken into consideration, and EV vendors are not doing that with this constant race to 60MPH o
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I grow very tired of this bigger-dick contest between EV vendors.
I know right. The petrol and Diesel vehicle makers have always been so responsible and have never pushed the performance angle.
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Indeed. Here's a youtube vid of the car on Das Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Enjoy!
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You either do a lap in that time or you do not, there is no 'capable'.
Yeah, TFA is silly. Instead of having a long drawn out discussion of which racing car is "fastest", why not just ... race them.
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MPH again ? And the winner is .... (Score:3, Insightful)
MPH ? Why not Avoidupois system insteand ? Or maybe ancient egyptian mesurement system.
Are we on /. or what ? Stuff that matters, such as using a practical unit system.
Ey, by the way, did you know that only 3 countries in the whole world have not moved yet officially to the universal metric system : Myanmar, Liberia and ..... the USA !
Years back, it was a pun intended but nowadays, it's starting to make phooey sense ;-)
Meahwhile, in the rest of the planet earth, people mostly use km/h to rank a car speed ...
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MPH ? Why not Avoidupois system insteand ? Or maybe ancient egyptian mesurement system.
You must be new here. The US not using the metric system has been discussed ad-nauseum here on Slashdot for many years. While most of us would like the US to go metric it's not going to change any time soon so I suggest you get over it. Most of the readership on Slashdot is in the US so most of us are perfectly comfortable with MPH as a unit. Those who aren't used to mph as a unit are mostly smart enough to handle the conversion. Roughly 0-60mph = 0-100kph.
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I think it's important for everyone to have a rudimentary grasp of both systems. Metric is far superior, but it doesn't help to stick one's head in the dirt and scream "I'm not pulling my head out until everything is in kilometers".
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Most of the readership on Slashdot is in the US :D
This is extremely unlikely
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Kilograms per minute makes no sense, its joules per second, aka watts, and the typical denomination is kilowatts (kW). At least kilowatts are the same everywhere unlike horsepower that are different in different countries.
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This is a really weird one though, the spec like 205/55/R16 means 205mm tread width, 55% aspect (sidewall is 55% of tread width) for 16 in rims. It has both millimetres and inches in it, just to be confusing.
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And about bicycles... let's sort the common adult bicycle rim sizes by their actual size:
26 27.5 28 = 29 27
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Eh.. slashdot ate my less-than signs, so let's try again.
26" is smaller than 27.5, which is smaller than 28, which is equal to 29. 27 is larger than all others.
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Despite the efforts of the EU, the UK hasn't moved to the metric system either. Distances and speeds are still using Imperial units if you're driving.
That said, you're right to be irritated by this article. Given that the car is Chinese, the speeds would have been measured in KPH. The quoted MPH numbers in this summary are not just jarring, they include a rounding error. Why not just say the actual correct values, which are 200 and 300 kph for instance?
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Sell it as a kit-car in the US and they can ignore the safety standards.
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About the time the White Zombie started hitting the drag races at Portland International Raceway. Look it up (though that's a purpose-built electric car that has two totally different modes- cruise around town slowly, or dump a full 1000 KW/h battery pack into two 1000 horsepower motors in 3.6 seconds for a quarter mile speed burn).
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