BYD just got Abu Dhabi to shut down a desert highway so its electric hypercar could hit 503 km/h, about 313 mph. That made it the first production car in history past 500.
At that speed you cross a football field in about two-thirds of a second, and the car needed a whole highway because its test track in Germany literally ran out of road.
Back in September 2025 at Papenburg, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme came off the banked curve doing around 300, hit 496 on the straight, and started drifting toward the left wall. Marc Basseng had to lift off with more still left in it, and the car sat stuck at 496 for over a year.
Those last few km/h are brutal because of air. Drag goes up with the square of your speed, and the power you need to push through it goes up with the cube, so going from 400 to 500 is only 25% faster but takes roughly twice the power. Up near the top, almost all of the car's 3,000 horsepower is getting burned just to hold its speed against the wind. What's left over for accelerating is a trickle, so the last bit eats a ton of road.
Everybody who's chased this number has run out of road. Bugatti needed the 8.8 km straight at Volkswagen's private Ehra-Lessien track to reach 490 in 2019, and then announced it was done with top speed records. Koenigsegg built the Jesko Absolut for exactly this number, and Christian von Koenigsegg admitted a 3-mile runway would only get it to about 85% of what it can do. No Jesko has officially gone past 500.
So BYD went looking for a road. Stella Li said in July she wanted a 15 km straight in the UAE and would ask the police for one. Last Sunday Abu Dhabi closed 10 km of the E11 out in the desert, Basseng went back out, and the whole run from launch to stop used 9.2 km of highway. It was one direction only, same as Bugatti's record, and the FIA made it official today.
Bugatti spent 14 years getting from 408 to 490 km/h, and the original U9 went from 309 in January 2024 to 503 in less than three years.
Sadly surgery didn’t go well and tumour too big now. You are going to try and get me into the hospice tomorrow. From there I think it’s probably a few days left. I’ve loved it all and have no regrets. Achieved everything I ever wanted with a perfext wife and 2 kids,
رجل تايواني يدعى بان، كان يعمل في ازالة اعشاش الدبابير وتعرض للسعه في رأسه وبدأ جسدة ينهار تدريجيا وكان على وشك الاغماء
كان بعيد عن اي تواجد للبشر، فقاوم الاغماء بشدة وركب سيارته وقادها حتى وصل لاقرب منزل وتوقف امامهم وطلب المساعده بصوت ضعيف وقال انه على وشك الموت
كان بينهم رجل يدعى بو ديوي الذي قفز فورا وانطلق به للمستشفى وظل يتحدث معه طوال الطريق حتى يمنعه من فقدان وعيه
عند وصولهما، عجز الأطباء عن قياس ضغط دمه لشدة انخفاضه، بينما وصل نبضه إلى 168 نبضة في الدقيقة، لحسن الحظ تمكنوا من انقاذه بأربع حقن، وقالوا لو انه تأخر 5 دقائق لكان من الموتى
في اليوم التالي عاد لشكر منقذه وقدم له مكافأة مالية
مخيف ان كل هذا تسببت فيه حشرة صغيرة وبلسعه واحده، احيانا اصغر المخلوقات قادره على الفتك بمخلوق اضعاف حجمها
🚨 BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just laid out EXACTLY what happened in the nationwide ground stop.
At 3:36 PM, radar and communications at air traffic centers across the country BECAME UNSTABLE.
Systems weren't fully down, but the data stopped being reliable, so the FAA grounded flights.
MORE THAN 3,500 PLANES WERE IN THE AIR. Duffy says fewer than 400 are left now, and they're all coming in to land safely. Medevac flights, lifesaving cargo and law enforcement kept flying the whole time.
His bottom line is that America is running "AN INCREDIBLY OLD AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM."
Trump and Duffy have been warning about this for two years.
Washington needs to quit stalling and fund the fix.
2x1 vs @G2esports, que jogo bom do caralho, mais uma vez conseguimos ter cabeça e só tenho a agradecer por ter esse time, amanhã voltamos em busca da final.
#fazeup