This car has already set the speed record for an electric car on the Nürburgring circuit in Germany (which is the benchmark for performance in the automotive world), which is 24.4 km long, with a time of seven minutes, 51 seconds, and 12 hundredths. But the weather conditions were not perfect, and NIO aimed to beat significant supercars like Lamborghini and Radical, so under better weather conditions, it set an amazing time of six minutes and 45 seconds, making it the fastest of all road-legal cars (not race cars) tested on that track in Germany, even non-electric ones.
The NIO brand is produced by a Chinese startup called NextEV with a vision of high-performance electric vehicles, and also with a tendency towards autonomy: the car achieved a fast lap on the track without a driver.
It’s quite a large car – 2.2 meters wide. Its electric motors produce 1,341 horsepower. Its maximum speed is limited to 300 km/h, and it reaches 200 km/h in 7.1 seconds. It is equipped with special tires, which, along with its meticulous aerodynamic design that creates strong downforce, give it the ability, according to its creators, to make a turn at a speed that would generate 3G (most sports cars start to slide at 1G).
Bottom line: a supercar on wheels.
Price: around $1.2 million.
