Ludicrous Mode what now?
Not a single week goes by without a new electric contraption making its way into the transitioning automotive world.
Transition, as we're witnessing it today, sees the industry going electric or planning for electrification. Some move slower, others are already off the mark. Others simply go extreme.
Our point of interest today is NextEV and their Nio sub-brand, which celebrated its birth with the EP9 all-electric supercar.
NextEV has been quick to label the Nio EP9 as the world's fastest electric car, but there's a catch. They took the silent brute on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, where it seized a lap time of 7 minutes and 5.12 seconds.
So it's a different concept of "fastest electric car" when compared to Genovation GXE's Guinness record in a straight line, which involved a top speed of 205.6 mph (roughly 330 km/h).
Back to the Nio EP9, here's what animates the beast: four electric motors kept in check by four individual gearboxes for 1 MegaWatt of power or 1,360 PS (1,341 hp).
The figures above account for a 0 to 220 km/h (137 mph) sprint obliterated in 7.1 seconds and a terminal velocity of 313 km/h (195 mph).
EP9 also gets an interchangeable battery pack (swapping them takes around 8 minutes), but you can still charge it to full juice in 45 minutes and squeeze a max range of 427 km (265 miles), according to NextEV.
You thought specs couldn't get crazier than that? Well, hear this out: Nio EP9 generates the downforce of a current Formula 1 car, the braking torque of a GT3 racer and 3G forces when cornering.