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Fully Charged Show: BYD Yangwang U8 and U9 Highlights

[Music] hello and welcome to a slightly unusual episode of the fully charged show now many of you will know that some of the big Japanese mass-produced car manufacturers have a very luxury brand associated with them uh Nissan have Infiniti Toyota have Lexus but now byd from China have Yang Wang now this enormous machine is the Yang Wang u8 and it is a plug-in hybrid which we normally would never touch with a barge Bowl but this particular car does have a particular set of skills for one thing it can turn on its axis it can do a tank turn and for another thing if you make a mistake and drive into a river you just drive it to the other side of the river and drive out love the fully charged show join us live in Canada this September the South in October and Australia and London in 2025 now before we look at the all electric superc car the u9 I just couldn't help having a quick look around the truly Bonkers Yang Wang u8 yes the Yang Wang u8 is a plug-in hybrid and we as I've said we wouldn't normally cover that there is a petrol engine under here it burns fossil fuels but you know this vehicle is so exceptional I think it is really worth having a look at it is a series hybrid that means that the petrol engine is not mechanically connected to the wheels in any way it operates just as a generator so this vehicle can do about 85 to 90 M on battery alone which is what you're going to use for the vast majority of the time you have the car but you can do then 600 miles when you've got a tank full of petrol to burn it's got lithium ion phosphate uh battery chemistry built by byd that's their speciality they're a battery company that make cars not a car company that are scrabbling around looking for Batteries they know batteries backwards uh it has close to 12200 horsepower it needs it it's a size of a quite a large semi- detached house um it's it's got one motor for each wheel so each wheel is individually driven by a motor all this made by byd they don't they're not buying parts from anyone else uh and as I mentioned earlier on because it's got those four Motors that are controlling each wheel separately it can do this ridiculous thing I don't know where you'd use it maybe in a car park when you just bought some milk and you needed to turn this vehicle around it will do a tank turn that means that literally these wheels on this side are turning that way and those wheels on that side are turning that way and it goes probably not good for long-term tile wear but the fact that it can do it and a vehicle this size can do it is absolutely amazing it also means it's off-road capabilities are off the scale it could it can deal with incredibly difficult terrain and sand and things like that that the combustion engine four-wheel drives really struggle with but let's just quickly mention the fact of its capabilities of floating I mean that really is Bonkers they do not advise you to do it it is not something you should do every day but if by any chance you accidentally drive off the side of a road into a river you know it's a difficult one but say you do this car will float and it will cut off the petrol engine no matter what's going on and it will drive the wheels with the electric motor because electric electricity and water are much safer and more reliable than petrol engines and water you put a p petrol engine under waterer it will stop forever but the electric motors will keep going and it will spin the wheels and that will drive you along and you can steer it to go to the other bank it's safe to be in water for about 30 minutes uh the sunroof automatically opens so in a really dire emergency you can still get out of the car easily but the fact is you can drive into the into a river or a lake and you're not going to [Music] sink and of course a critically important uh piece of technology this vehicle comes with is a karaoke machine so you you play your song there and it's got a karaoke microphone and you can sing to your heart's content obviously not while you're driving that would be unsafe but maybe your passengers want to do it or you're stuck in heavy traffic and you think I'll just have a bit of a sing hello the time is can't sing CU we haven't got the [Music] copyright and this dear viewers is the Yang Wang u9 and the the stats for this vehicle are completely Bonkers off the charts it's just short of 1,300 horsepower it can do 0 to 100 km an hour in around 2 seconds it's got a top speed of 186 mph it is an 800v platform it has four byd electri elect Motors one for each wheel and it can perform tank turns as well like the u8 each motor has uh 322 horsepower or 240 Kow of power each individual motor that's like four cars in one car it can be charged quite quickly so it can go from 30 to 80% in 10 minutes because you can charge it on both sides of the car you can plug in 250 Kow both sides so you're charging the car up 500 KW that is a Bonkers electric super car so the battery capacity on this car is 80 kwatt hours which can can give it if you drive really carefully a range of they say 280 Mi I'd say 220 230 Mi I bet if you drove really carefully because it's so aerodynamically amazing we'll talk about that later you probably get quite good range out of it but what really makes this car Stand Out is the suspension the u9 has desus X intelligent body control now this is kind of a next level of computer control suspension uh that is that can be activated in milliseconds uh and one of the things it does so if you're like on a track and you're at the start line and you put your foot down the car doesn't lift up as you rock it forward like all cars do the car stays level the suspension levels the car out if you go around a corner really fast it doesn't tip to one side it stays absolutely flat if you break incredibly hard it stays flat the suspension is so incredibly finely tuned and Powerful that it can literally lower the car right down then boying it up in the air it literally takes off they've been demonstrating this all over the world with this car it is quite quite extraordinary the estimated price for the u9 in the UK and Europe if they do bring it here which they are talking about very seriously that's why we're seeing this now uh the estimated price in the UK would be $184,000 I mean a incredible amount of money that would be $233,000 in the US or € 216,000 so it's really not a cheap car let's be really serious about that however if you compare it with the other cars that I mentioned the rimac NAA is around2 million and the pinifarina Batista is over3 million so this car this incredible achievement in break technological breakthrough technology just extraordinary um is about a sixth of the cost of its Rivals this one probably goes faster in a straight line goes faster around corners can stop quicker and has a longer electric range and definitely charges quicker than any of them that really has to be taken into consideration so one of the interesting things I think about this interior is the only other supercars I've ever sat in have a massive you know analog and Butch switches and all that stuff this is obviously very very plain and simple small screen here really really responsive really fast as soon as you touch it it changes it's there's no lag there difficulty of really knowing uh how this car runs is all the all the information is in Chinese so this is a Chinese built car and it's for the Chinese market um so it's kind of hard to judge one of the key things I know there's a little phone holder here that looks level so you know your phone would just slide off but it's as soon as you put a phone on it it goes down and it holds your phone safely and securely really really comfortable seats obviously very tight holding you in they're good racing seats they're good this is a performance car this car goes fast that's what it's for amazing visibility and really cool camera rearview miror which I've got to say I like I know there's been a lot of criticism when we did the postar 4 recently you know that's got no rear window well nor is this but I can really see clearly he got proper mirrors on the doors you know I would be able to drive this car but I would drive it very slowly I wouldn't do I wouldn't it would be a waste of me having it obviously the materials that are used on the interior are beautiful it's it's all very very high-end I'm not I would think this is um you know pleather or vegan leather but it might not be it might be real leather I can't really tell uh we got very minimal information about all those intricacies of the car but it's what what is the has still go on what is the most extraordinary thing is this is not a prototype this is a production car it's in production they've made lots of them the fit and finish is off the scale it's it's stunning the The Challenge from China is mindboggling for the automotive industry it really [Music] is so it's kind of hard to sum up what I've seen here today an incredible super powerful supercast incredible fast super car this absolute monster huge SUV with a petrol engine in it and when it started up accidentally when we were filming it we could all smell the fumes you know there is a big downside to even amazing plug-in hybrids like this but I'm really glad we covered it because it represents so many other breakthroughs in technology that byd have been achieving at break next speed this company didn't exist 2 years ago and look what they've made already it's a incredible achievement I'm really really impressed with what they're doing uh I can't wait I'm going to have a little ride in the uh u9 uh in the near future which I'm very excited about please do subscribe to the fully charged show channel if you haven't already please do tell friends and mates and family members and Skeptics about it because we see a huge range of vehicles on this show uh and as always if you have been thank you for watching