By : Joan MacKay Petti – Foreign Editor
The NIO EP9 electric hypercar set a new Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record on May 12,2017, improving its previous result from October 2016 by 19.22 seconds to a road-legal record of 6:45.900 s (six minutes, 45.900 seconds)
Nio EP9 On The Ring
No other production car ever posted a faster lap time at the ‘Ring than the NIO EP9, not even the Lamborghini Hurac?n Performante, that turned in a time of 6:52.01 a couple months back.
NIO’s time is simply amazing, but the EP9 isn’t the only plug-in among the Top 5 fastest-ever laps of the Nurburging by road-legal production cars.
Standing in fifth place for its ‘Ring time is the Porsche 918 Spyder.
So, with the new NIO EP9 time added in, we’ve now got 2 plug-ins in the Top 5 for best times ever at the Nurburging by road legal production cars.
Here’s the Top 5 rundown:
1 – Nio EP9 – 6:45.90
2 – Radical SR8LM – 6:48.00
3 – Lamborghini Huracan Performante – 6:52.01
4 – Radical SR8 – 6:56.08
5 – Porsche 918 Spyder – 6:57.00
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the next fastest pure EV with a documented time around the ‘Ring is the Toyota TMG EV P001 at 7:47.79, so the NIO’s EP9 blows it away.
By : Joan MacKay Petti - Foreign Editor
The NIO EP9 electric hypercar set a new Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record on May 12,2017, improving its previous result from October 2016 by 19.22 seconds to a road-legal record of 6:45.900 s (six minutes, 45.900 seconds)
Nio EP9 On The Ring
No other production car ever posted a faster lap time at the ‘Ring than the NIO EP9, not even the Lamborghini Hurac?n Performante, that turned in a time of 6:52.01 a couple months back.
NIO’s time is simply amazing, but the EP9 isn’t the only plug-in among the Top 5 fastest-ever laps of the Nurburging by road-legal production cars.
Standing in fifth place for its ‘Ring time is the Porsche 918 Spyder.
So, with the new NIO EP9 time added in, we’ve now got 2 plug-ins in the Top 5 for best times ever at the Nurburging by road legal production cars.
Here’s the Top 5 rundown:
1 – Nio EP9 – 6:45.90
2 – Radical SR8LM – 6:48.00
3 – Lamborghini Huracan Performante – 6:52.01
4 – Radical SR8 – 6:56.08
5 – Porsche 918 Spyder – 6:57.00
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the next fastest pure EV with a documented time around the ‘Ring is the Toyota TMG EV P001 at 7:47.79, so the NIO’s EP9 blows it away.
