The finish line is in sight for Rimac Automobil’s debut model.
The EV maker’s founder and namesake, Mate Rimac, has revealed the company will wrap up production of the Nevera by the end of the year. Rimac will have ended up building fewer than half the examples it intended to, but the executive, who now also runs Bugatti, believes the electric hypercar was a success.
Back when the EV was first revealed in 2018 as the C_Two concept, Rimac said his company intended to build 150 examples of the hypercar. But more than four years after the model officially launched as the Nevera in 2021, it would seem the marque fell well short of this goal. In an Instagram post earlier this fall, the executive revealed that final production would come out to 71 units, 51 of which are the standard model and 20 of which are the high-performance R variant.
Rimac Nevera
Rimac
We can’t imagine that Rimac is thrilled to have missed the original production target by such a wide margin, but he insists that the hypercar was still a success. “I think it’s still a pretty good achievement,” Rimac said in the video. “It’s the most sold electric hypercar in the world. And without that, there wouldn’t be the Tourbillon today; there wouldn’t be this factory. So, it did its job. I think it’s a quite cool car that … will have its place in history.”
It’s hard to disagree. The Nevera, which started at $2.2 million, is easily one of the most impressive performance vehicles to be released this decade. It has a bold, sculptural design with a quad-motor powertrain that churned out 1,888 hp and 1,741 ft lbs of torque. Thanks to all this power, the car it can accelerate from zero to 62 mph in 1.74 seconds and reach 258 mph. The track-focused Nevera R, which starts at $2.5 million, pairs an even more aggressive aero kit with a more potent powertrain that boosts output to 2,078 hp. It can accelerate from zero to 62 mph in 1.74 seconds and hit a top speed of 268 mph. Unfortunately, all of this was not enough to win over enough of the crowd that buys seven-figure hypercars.
So, what’s next for Rimac? The company has yet to announce a successor to the Nevera, but it has also grown dramatically since the model was first announced, as Motor1.com points out. It now features multiple divisions, including one that develops EV tech for other manufacturers, including sister company Bugatti. The company also began operating a self-driving, ride-share service called Verne earlier this year.
