Chinese EV startup Nio is poised to take on the establishment with more momentum than you might expect
One of the many start-ups looking to leave a permanent tyre track in the market is Nio. You may know Nio from its headline-grabbing arrival into the automotive world by setting a lap record for an electric supercar on the Nürburgring’s infamous northern loop (see evo 237). The EP9’s 6 minute 45.9 second lap was not just the fastest ever for an EV at the Ring, but Lamborghini’s Aventador SVJ is the only production car to have gone quicker (by a second). Yet that moment of glory was two years ago, and despite the 16 units having been produced to date for Chinese customers, the car remains absent from the majority of Ring lap time leaderboards for production, street-legal vehicles.
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