Yangwang just set a new top speed record with its all-electric U9 hypercar, going 293.5 mph in a speed test and making it what the Chinese marque says is the world’s fastest EV.
The U9 costs something like a quarter-million dollars, and it originally set out to go just 192 mph when it was first announced. That number was clearly lowballing it a little bit, as the car went 233 mph within months. Then the hypercar went 244 mph later last year, behind, among EVs, only the Aspark Owl,…

