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 ...

Last month, BYD's luxury brand Yangwang took the EV speed crown away from the Rimac Nevera with its 2,959 horsepower U9 Track/Special Edition. The car hit 293.54 miles per hour, but that simply wasn't ...

A Chinese EV is now the fastest production car in the world. The YangWang U9 Extreme broke the 300 mph barrier earlier this month and dethroned the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+. Just 30 units of ...

John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...

It has been less than a month since Chinese performance brand Yangwang claimed to have set an outright speed record for a production electric vehicle with its U9 Xtreme, hitting a top speed on a ...

BYD’s all-electric hypercar, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme, is now the world’s fastest production car, having hit 308.4mph at ATP Papenburg’s high-speed oval circuit in Germany with German test driver Marc ...

With a 13.1-second 1/4-mile time, this American manufacturer's car was certainly no slouch.

A group of students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands built a homemade racing electric vehicle that reaches a speed of 62 mph in just 2.15 seconds. The vehicle, dubbed DUT13 ...