{"id":1295187,"date":"2025-09-21T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-worlds-fastest-car-a-chinese-electric-car-sets-a-new-record\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:49:14","slug":"the-worlds-fastest-car-a-chinese-electric-car-sets-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-worlds-fastest-car-a-chinese-electric-car-sets-a-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s fastest car: A Chinese electric car sets a new record."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Chinese hypercar YangWang U9 Xtreme has become the fastest car in the world, nearly reaching 500 km\/h.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the German track in Papenburg, racing driver Marc Basseng accelerated the Chinese BYD YangWang to 496.22 km\/h (308.5 mph), breaking the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+&#8217;s 490.48 km\/h (304.1 mph) record set in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BYD Yangwang U9 Hits 496.22 KM\/H \u2013 EV Supercar Speed Record\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hidULl548o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The YangWang is an electric vehicle. It is equipped with a four-motor powertrain producing 2,978 hp. The battery provides a range of up to 450 km, and charging from 30 to 80% at a fast charging station takes 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar is a limited edition of 30 units. Each car costs $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; reported that a plant based in the orbit of one of the parliamentary majorities <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zavod-z-orbity-sluhy-kunytskoho-postachav-zariadni-stantsii-do-elektrokariv-v-okupovanyy-krym-skhemy\/\">supplied charging stations for electric cars<\/a> to occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>The LUAZ plant also considered the possibility <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/povernennia-lehendy-znamenytyy-luaz-vidrodiat-u-formati-elektromobilia\/\">of reviving the Ukrainian SUV<\/a> as an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese hypercar YangWang U9 Xtreme has become the fastest car in the world, nearly reaching 500 km\/h. At the German track in Papenburg, racing driver Marc Basseng accelerated the Chinese BYD YangWang to 496.22 km\/h (308.5 mph), breaking the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+&#8217;s 490.48 km\/h (304.1 mph) record set in 2019. The YangWang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1295178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76895,76896],"class_list":["post-1295187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-sports","category-techno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295189,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295187\/revisions\/1295189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}