When the demands of lasting a sub-seven minute lap of the Nurburgring are relaxed and the batteries are allowed to deliver maximum power, the Nio EP9 has 1,341bhp at its disposal. That’s ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The electric Nio EP9 set a lap record at the infamous Nürburgring track. The EP9 drove a 6:45:9 lap time, which is faster than any production car. The EP9 beat its ...

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In 2017, Nio let the EP9 loose on the Nurburgring Nordschleife with British racing driver Peter Dumbreck behind the wheel. Dumbreck set a lap time of 6:45.90—beating the Nio's former record 7:05 ...

Nurburgring Nordshleife laptimes ... The Volkswagen ID.R and NIO EP9 racers currently lead the EV table by a huge margin, but the production electric cars are catching up. Rimac’s Nevera ...

Directly, not a great deal. The EP9 is purely a halo car to showcase Nio’s engineering principles; something to be taken into consideration by regular car buyers when they are deciding which ...