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BYD Just Exposed Tesla
It’s out-of-date, nonsense vapourware.
Tesla’s next-gen Roadster was meant to be its shining light. The beacon that told the entire world that Tesla was the mob boss of EVs. Yet seven years after its announcement, Tesla has nothing to show. No test mules, no technology demonstrations, no production line progress, no record attempts. To be honest, we haven’t seen a working prototype of this car in years at this point. And the original prototype looks suspiciously like a Model S performance in a frock. This is after Musk took hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits and pre-orders for this non-existent car. However, don’t worry, although Musk may have failed to fulfil his promise, BYD has succeeded. A Track Edition of their U9 supercar just hit 293.54 mph, making it the fastest EV ever, and the third fastest road-legal car ever. But, there is more to this than speed.
The standard $236,000 Yanwang U9 already buried anything Tesla has to offer. It utilises an 800-volt, 80 kWh BYD Blade battery, the same battery used by Tesla in a 400-volt, 60 kWh configuration in their base-spec European Model Ys. Yet this simple change gives it a charge rate of 500kW, and a 10% to 80% charge time of only 10 minutes. Sure, that only equates to a 280-mile range, but that is because this has four motors, one for each wheel, and a total of 1,290 horsepower. However, those…
