YANGWANG is proud to announce that the U9 Xtreme has achieved a new lap record for Electric Super Sports Cars around the Nürburgring.
BYD Showcases Fastest Electric Hypercar at Nordschleife which is the largest motorsport event in Germany. YANGWANG U9 Xtreme is already the fastest car on the planet. BYD’s luxury sub-brand has set another benchmark as a performance standard. It is after posting a world-record high speed of 496.22km/h at ATP Papenburg.
Interestingly, YANGWANG’s engineering team has been conducting long-term testing at the 20.832km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit since July 2024. The extensive on-track data gleaned from this process had been fed into the development of the U9 Xtreme. YANGWANG can now confirm that on 22 August 2025, the U9X lapped the Nürburgring in 6m and 59.157 seconds. It slices more than five seconds off the previous record time in the Electric Super Sports Cars class. Moreover, it is the first such vehicle to dip under the seven-minute barrier.
BYD Executive Vice President Stella Li said: “We are dedicated to pushing the limits of what can be achieved through technology, and the Nürburgring is such a legendary challenge for cars and drivers that it is only natural for our engineers to pursue their dreams there. I congratulate the entire team on this phenomenal achievement. The limited-edition U9 Xtreme has proven that it is not only the world’s fastest car in a straight line, but also a vehicle with the performance and dynamic qualities necessary to break lap records on a circuit with a wide variety of corners.”
U9 Xtreme’s High Performance Motors
The U9 Xtreme is built on the world’s first mass-produced all-domain 1200V ultra-high-voltage platform. It has four high-performance motors, each capable of 30,000rpm. The car delivers a total output of over 3,000PS, delivering a power-to-weight ratio of 1,217PS per tonne that sets new global benchmarks for performance.
It is based on the same e⁴ Platform and DiSus-X intelligent body-control system as the current YANGWANG U9. The U9 Xtreme innovatively brings “body-attitude control” technology to track applications. Thus, it balances both top-speed and lap-time performance in a single vehicle.
The U9 Xtreme features a completely redesigned cooling system and a new titanium-alloy carbon-ceramic braking system. It also has GitiSport e·GTR² PRO semi-slick tires, jointly developed with Giti. These upgrades enable the car to excel in the 496.22km/h top-speed challenge. Thus, it also delivered in the Nürburgring’s “Green Hell” lap-time record attempt. The U9 Xtreme is available to customers with a limited series production run of no more than 30 units.
The driver for the record lap was an experienced German racer Moritz Kranz. He has notched up almost 10,000 laps of the ultra-challenging Nordschleife circuit during a career in GT competition. He said: “The Nürburgring Nordschleife is the most demanding track, and our lap time is a testament to the development skills of BYD and YANGWANG. Without their intense work to balance a high-powered EV platform with the difficult demands of the chassis set-up, this great lap time would not have been possible.”
