BYD’s Yangwang U9 Track Edition Is a 3,020hp Monster on Wheels

By Danial Martinus  •  14 Aug 2025 in Cars

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As a casual observer of the automotive market, it feels like Chinese cars (more specifically EVs) are just taking over at blistering speeds. And if you’d told me a few years ago that a Chinese EV could be knocking on the doors of hypercar royalty, I’d have laughed, nodded politely, and gone back to fawning over some familiar European names.

But here we are. BYD’s Yangwang U9 Track Edition is coming, and it’s packing a spec sheet so ludicrous it almost reads like a typo.

Not a typo, at least according to official filings

Of course, we have to start with the headline figure. 3,020 horsepower courtesy of four individual electric motors pumping out 555 kW each. That’s more than triple the output of the already-absurd standard U9, which makes “just” 960 kW. The result? A top speed of 350 km/h in a 2.5-tonne EV.

It seems that BYD’s engineers decided the standard U9 wasn’t terrifying enough.

From the pictures filed with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the Track Edition doesn’t scream about its extra muscle, at least not in the flamboyant way you’d normally expect from track-focused editions. The changes are less flashy, more purposeful.

You’ve got a carbon fibre roof to shave off weight, 20-inch lightweight alloys, an enhanced front splitter, and a rear end armed with a carbon fibre diffuser (with adjustable blades, no less).

If all this automotive lingo sounds like gibberish to you, let’s make it more simple: very smooth, cut through air like a hot knife on butter, stick to the ground like superglue, very fast.

Basically, aerodynamics is the name of the game here. When you’re pushing that kind of speed and power, keeping the car pinned to the ground is just as important as sending it rocketing down a straight.

In terms of dimensions, though, the Track Edition will be almost identical to the standard U9. The same goes to the battery, which will probably have the ability to charge from 30% to 80% in just 10 minutes on a 500 kW DC charger, assuming you can find one.

But let’s be real. People seriously interested in buying the U9 Track Edition are probably not worried about range.

Not just here to compete, but to dominate

BYD’s rise has been nothing short of meteoric. It’s gone from making sensible EV sedans for the mass market to producing a hypercar contender that, at least on paper, can trade punches with the likes of Rimac, the Lotus Evija, and even Bugatti’s upcoming electric efforts.

And for Malaysians, BYD isn’t just some niche name. It’s already the best-selling EV brand in the country, just ahead of national carmaker Proton. That means the company has both the sales clout and the engineering prowess to back up something as wild as the U9 Track Edition.

You’ll probably never see a U9 (or its Track Edition sibling) blasting through Malaysian roads, but it’s a clear proof of concept for BYD. It tells everyone just what the company is capable of. Whether it can actually walk the walk remains to be seen, of course.

But it definitely indicates that we can expect more fun cars in the future.

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