BYD has become one of the world’s largest automakers by sales volume, primarily selling affordable vehicles, but it wants more than that. Through its Yangwang premium brand, it wants to start winning customers from established luxury automakers, and one of the ways it’s doing that is by launching an ultra-high-performance electric supercar.
The Rimac Nevera, which has 1,914 hp from its four motors, is considerably faster too, putting down a quarter-mile time of around 8.5 seconds to the Yangwang’s 9.87 seconds. The U9 is still supercar-quick, though, and its quarter-mile time is comparable to that of a Porsche 911 Turbo S. With a price of around $230,000 in China, the Yangwang U9 is pretty affordable given its bonkers performance and radical looks—just look at that huge rear wing.