Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

Chinese EV maker BYD’s YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car. The sleek vehicle reached a white-knuckled 308.4 mph at the ATP Papenburg oval track in Germany, as Car and Driver reports, blowing past the previous record of 304.8 mph, which was set by the Bugatti Chiron in 2019. That means the U9 isn’t just the fastest EV ever — it’s the fastest of any production vehicle, in terms of top s…

YANGWANG U9 Xtreme is the world’s fastest production car, with top speed of 496.22km/h - SME Tech Guru

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 track in Germany. The feat was achieved with YANGWANG’s latest U9 Xtreme hypercar on 14 September 2025, eclipsing its previous EV benchmark and the 490.484km/h maximum of the quickest petrol-powered model to become the world’s fastest car overall. This modern…

China Just Launched the World's Fastest Production Car—And It's an EV

It’s official: the world’s fastest car no longer wears a Bugatti badge—it’s made in China, and it’s electric. BYD’s luxury arm, Yangwang, has stunned the automotive world with the U9 Xtreme, a hypercar that just clocked 496.22 km/h (308.34 mph) at Germany’s ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg track, edging past the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ and its 304.77 mph run in 2019. Yes, you read that right—BYD overpasses Bugatti. Official recording of…

The world's fastest road car is now a BYD

Not content with setting a new EV production car speed record, BYD’s Yangwang brand has now overtaken the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ to become the world’s fastest production car of any kind. BYD appears to be on a mission to surpass any established performance brand it can. Through its ultra-prestige Yangwang sub-brand, BYD has been on a mission to set new performance records in a number of fields. The latest record attempt sees the Yangwa…

The fastest production car in the world is the Yangwang U9 Xtreme

A few weeks ago, Yangwang made headlines by setting a new record for the fastest speed achieved by an EV. Read more...