Gas Beats Electric! Why Is 1000 HP Faster Than 3,000 HP?
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How Is The Corvette ZR1 Faster Than The Yangwang U9 Xtreme At The ‘Ring? Sponsored By Continental - https://bit.ly/44yquR2 Subscribe to Engineering Explained! - https://goo.gl/VZstk7 The most powerful production car ever, with nearly 3,000 horsepower, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme, is… somehow slower around the Nurburgring than the 1,000+ horsepower Corvette ZR1?? But why?! We’ll break it all down in this video, by performing a deep dive analysis on three questions: 1). Do the cars have enough energy onboard for a complete full power lap? 2). Is there a speed at which the Yangwang U9 Xtreme can actually use its full power? 3). What speed, for the front and rear axles, does the U9X become power limited? For the first question, we’ll analyze and compare each vehicle’s energy storage and power efficiency - how much energy can they actually put to the ground, and will this limit their lap times in any way, or is there an abundance of energy? For the second question, we’ll figure out what sp
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