The Yangwang U9 Xtreme becomes the first electric supercar to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in under seven minutes.

In early August, the Electric RaceAbout, a former Automotive X Prize contender, set what it claimed to be the Nordschleife lap record for an electric car at (roughly) 9:08. Today, it has announced an ...

Porsche’s Taycan Turbo GT is on a mission to claim back some bragging rights in the electric car arena. After Xiaomi’s recent announcements about snatching the record at the Nurburgring and Shanghai, ...

Nio, the electric car company formerly known as NextEV, has already claimed a lap record at the Circuit of the Americas, but before that, it picked up the EV lap record at the Nürburgring. And now, ...

Chinese tech megacorp Xiaomi is back at it again, putting the world on notice that it builds the quickest and fastest electric vehicles anywhere. The old standard for proving the mettle of a sports ...

Audi is bidding farewell to the R8 supercar with "something special planned." "It’s the R8’s Last Lap," they say, posting teaser photos on Instagram. That last lap comes after the model spent 17 years ...

In just a few years, the Re:Fuel racing event has become legendary among those who like their electric cars really, really fast. Two years ago, Joe Nuxoll set a new lap record for electric cars there ...

Volkswagen on Wednesday revealed the latest iteration of its ID R all-electric racing car, which on Thursday will begin testing towards the company's goal of setting a new lap record at the ...

Setting a record is great and all, but what about setting one when you’re not even trying? That’s what happened to a McMurtry Spéirling. The electric fan car recently posted two different lap records ...

That time makes the SLS AMG Electric Drive significantly quicker than another German electric supercar, the Audi R8 e-tron. That car turned a lap of the Nürburgring in 8:09.09 minutes. But whereas the ...