BYD Enters a Deadly Race for Excess
This page is translated from the original post "BYD se lance dans une course mortelle à l’excès" in French.
- 11/08/2025 11:29
We suspected this would eventually happen. In their eagerness to impress, BYD is heading down a dead-end path.
Electric car manufacturers, led by BYD, now seem to be engaged in an absurd escalation, always seeking more power, always faster, always more “performant.” Forgetting that the road is not a racetrack and that not everyone is Lewis Hamilton. According to our colleagues at Electrek, BYD is preparing the next step in this madness with the Yangwang U9 “Track Edition,” an electric supercar boasting 3,000 horsepower.
3,019 horsepower to be exact, distributed over four motors of 555 kW each. This represents nearly 50% more power than the already monstrous Rimac Nevera, well beyond what we believed possible or necessary for a road vehicle. All this just to gain a few tenths of a second on a 0 to 100 km/h already at 2 seconds?
Give a weapon to a child…
The saddest part is that we could see this escalation coming. Obtaining hundreds, or even thousands, of extra horsepower from an electric motor is much easier and less costly than extracting even a few horsepower from an internal combustion engine. As a result, instead of focusing on efficiency, reliability, or sobriety, some prefer to engage in a contest of indecent technical specifications. The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is already a glaring example with its 1,000 horsepower for the price of a family sedan.
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But what will happen when these machines, capable of reaching unspeakable speeds in seconds, end up in the hands of drivers with no racing experience? How many injuries and deaths will it take before we understand that one cannot improvise as a supercar driver? Electronic systems can compensate for many clumsinesses, but they cannot abolish the laws of physics.
Manufacturers justify these excesses with dreams, images, and records. In reality, this race towards excess dangerously normalizes extreme speed on open roads. All this to flatter egos and times, at the cost of human lives. Performance is alluring. Excess can kill.
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