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Chinese automaker Yangwang has claimed the Nurburgring lap record for a production electric sports car with its U9 Xtreme, clocking an impressive 6 minutes 59.157 seconds on the 20.8 km circuit in August. Driven by professional racer Moritz Kranz, the 2,959-horsepower, quad-motor U9 Xtreme shaved five seconds off the previous…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced it will partially restart manufacturing in the coming days, nearly a month after production was halted by a major cyberattack. The luxury carmaker suspended operations on 31 August, disrupting assembly lines at its plants in Solihull and Halewood, and forcing thousands of staff and…
Chinese automaker BYD’s luxury brand Yangwang has set a new world record for the fastest production car, with its electric hypercar U9 Xtreme reaching 308.4 mph at Germany’s Automotive Testing Papenburg High Speed Oval. The run surpasses the previous record of 304.8 mph, set by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport…
Volkswagen has announced a €1 bn (£866mln) investment in artificial intelligence, pledging to make the technology central to how it designs and builds vehicles. The German automaker unveiled the plan at the IAA Mobility event in Munich, saying AI will be used in «vehicle development, industrial applications and high-performance IT…