The Chinese company BYD wants to present the Yangwang U9 at the end of February. According to a report by “Carnewschina”, this is a super sports car with amazing performance. The car should accelerate from a standstill to 100 kilometers per hour in just two seconds and rely on 1287 hp. The maximum speed should be limited to 300 km/h. There is currently no official information on the subject of battery and range.
The two-door coupe is about the size of a Tesla Model S and is equipped with the so-called Disus-X body control system. This system allows the Yangwang U9 unusual freedom of movement. This means that the car should be able to drive on three tires and even jump. It should also be possible to turn around on the spot.
Such an unusual chassis could enable new best times for driving on the race track, as the car can be optimally adapted to the respective situation and route in real time. According to BYD, Disus is intended to represent “the basis for the future development of driver assistance systems.”
BYD is still on the hunt for Tesla. In the last quarter, the Chinese managed to replace Tesla as the best-selling electric vehicle brand in the world. Now it also seems to be about future vehicles.
The new edition of the Tesla Roadstar, announced in 2017, is planned for the end of 2024. Tesla aims to create a vehicle with an acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 2.1 seconds, a top speed of over 400 km/h and a range of 1000 kilometers. While the system performance has not yet been mentioned, the battery is said to be a model with 200 kilowatt hours – twice as much as in the Tesla Model S Plaid.
Rapid acceleration has been a very important point for Tesla since the Roadster was announced. BYD already seems to be delivering better values with the Yangwang U9 – which shouldn’t please Tesla boss Elon Musk.
In his eyes, BYD and Tesla were not serious competitors for a very long time. In 2011, Elon Musk publicly ridiculed the manufacturer in an interview and asked the “Bloomberg” reporter if “she had seen their car.” She replied in the affirmative and asked whether Musk did not see BYD as competition at all – he replied in the negative. “I don’t think BYD has a good product. The technology isn’t particularly good and BYD has serious problems in its home market,” he added. “Your focus should be on not drowning in China,” Musk concluded at the time.
