Parent company Volvo comes up with all-electric hypercar
A Chinese car brand has shown off the latest experiment from the East: an all-electric hypercar the likes of which we have never seen before.
The Chinese auto industry is developing at a rapid pace. The automakers there are shooting up like mushrooms and coming out with one new model after another. Generally, this mainly results in sedans and crossovers (all electric, of course). Existing brands taken over by China, such as MG and Lotus, still occasionally venture into electric sports cars. But one brand is now going a step further and wants to venture into a true hypercar.
This is Ji Yue, a brand that falls under Geely. This puts Ji Yue in the same pedigree as Volvo, Polestar and Zeekr. In addition, the brand is also partly owned by Baidu, basically the Chinese equivalent of Google. So big names with lots of money. And that means Ji Yue can work on a very ambitious project.
Ji Yue’s previous cars were not particularly creative, as they were the same electric sedans the market is overflowing with these days. But now the brand is showing a real hypercar, named Robo X. That sound you hear now is Elon Musk running around cursing that he hasn’t captured that name yet. In terms of appearance, it is without a doubt a hypercar: it is reminiscent of the Koenigsegg or the Mercedes AMG ONE. The body is made of carbon fiber and has a built-in halo, familiar from Formula One. Propulsion comes from four different electric motors.
Very much more than that is not yet known about the Robo X. Ji Yue would not reveal anything about its power output, only that it should go from 0 to 100 in 1.9 seconds. On paper, the car should have a range of 650 kilometers and it should use a solid state battery. Ji Yue hopes to put the car into production in 2027 for a limited run of 88 units.
