NIO EP9 at the 'ring: Time for Coffee?
Heard the one about the electric car doing 7:05 at the Nordschleife? You have now!
Sadly Leach is no longer with us, but the project continues unabated. You may remember NIO claimed a very, very fast lap time at the Nordschleife for the EP9 of 7min 5.120sec back in 2016; rapid by any standards, leave alone an electric vehicle.
Now we have the video to support that lap, recorded last October. And while it may lack some of the drama or noise of other 'ring records, there's absolutely no doubting the speed on show. It's quite hard to be definite without displays, but certainly the Armco and kerb is passing rather swiftly through the Foxhole...
The time set by the NIO is 15 seconds quicker than the previous EV lap record, begging the question of just where the race goes next. Could it be that the production vehicle record is soon held by an entirely electric car?
Watch the video here.
AS I said, I'm probably odd ....
No gears to shift must contribute a lot to a fast time
At first I was trying to figure out if it was just mirrored as the driver appeared to tilt his head in the wrong direction and also look to the wrong side for the corner the car was going into, then I realised they don't even move together. I couldn't continue to watch after that.
If so that's rubbish, surely car manufacturers have to realise that for petrolheads, one of the big things missing from EV's is aural drama and something about it?
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