---
title: "Watch the 1,360-HP Nio EP9 Set a Nurburgring Record for Electric Cars"
description: "A 7:05 lap makes this battery-powered car quicker around the 'Ring than some serious heavy metal."
date: "2017-03-22"
modified: "2017-03-22"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/tech/8528/watch-the-nio-ep9-supercar-set-a-nurburgring-record-for-electric-cars"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "ep9"
  - "nio"
  - "Nurburgring"
  - "Supercar"
  - "Supercars"
---

# Watch the 1,360-HP Nio EP9 Set a Nurburgring Record for Electric Cars

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Remember the old high school game, "Seven Minutes in Heaven?" Well, last autumn, [NextEV's electric Nio EP9 supercar](<https://www.nio.io/ep9>) played its own version: "Seven Minutes in the Green Hell." On October 14th, 2016, [the battery-powered speed machine blitzed around the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:05.12](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/6132/did-nextevs-new-1-360-hp-nio-ep9-electric-supercar-set-a-nurburgring-record>)—a lap time that earns it a new 'Ring record for electric cars. And now, Nio has released video of the 1,360-horsepower supercar taking its borderline-bonkers lap.

Now, the business of new Nurburgring lap records has been a little contentious lately. Lamborghini has come under fire in recent weeks over allegations that it fudged[ the video of the 6:52 lap set by the Huracan Performante at the famed German race track](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/8494/lamborghini-on-ring-time-controversy-why-would-we-cheat>). But the video below of the Nio EP9 blasting around the 'Ring —which forgoes a speedometer for a stopwatch, a map of the track, and a picture-in-picture view of [driver Peter Dumbreck pushing the car to its limits](<https://www.peterdumbreck.com/updates/dumbreck-pilots-nextev-nio-ep9-to-take-nurburgring-nordschleife-electric-lap-record>)—doesn't trip our B.S. sensors the way some clips do.

![message-editor%2F1490198262800-nio-ep9-many.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1490198262800-nio-ep9-many.jpg>)
**Nio**

Honestly, the EP9's lap time isn't all that shocking, given the car's claimed specs. In addition to the four electric motors cranking out a claimed one megawatt of power, Nio says its supercar can generate 5,400 pounds of downforce—twice as much as a Formula One race car—and pull two and a half g's while taking a turn at 140 miles per hour. (Credit also goes to the 19-inch slicks, each of which is more than a foot wide.)

Still, that 7:05.12 lap time means the Nio EP9 can outrun some incredible performance cars at the 'Ring. [The Mercedes-AMG GT R](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/6410/watch-the-mercedes-amg-gt-r-lap-the-nurburgring-in-7-minutes-11-seconds>), the [Nissan GT-R NISMO](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/7542/watch-the-2017-nsx-battle-the-nissan-gt-r-nismo-at-tsukuba-circuit>) with N Attack Package, the Lexus LFA Nurburgring, the [Ferrari 488 GTB](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/5378/the-ferrari-488-gtb-instant-review>)—all of 'em wind up sucking the EP9's metaphorical exhaust.

Our only question, then: When can we take this puppy for a spin?

https://youtube.com/embed/UuW9qYVBLB8

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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