It costs $2 million and will do zero to 60 in just 1.85 seconds. Here's how they developed it—and what it's like to drive.
considered shuttering the brand due to the expected expense involved in rolling out its next generation of vehicles, and when Rimac offered to develop a new hybrid hypercar for the company for less than it would have cost Bugatti to update their current architecture, VW proposed a merger that gave Rimac a controlling stake in the company.
Time spent behind the wheel of Rimac’s new EV hypercar revealed a machine that is devastatingly quick regardless of circumstance. While acan struggle to fully utilize a “mere” 807 horsepower despite the fact that it’s outfitted with drag-tuned suspension and sophisticated launch control functions, the Nevera leaps off the line without a hint of wheelspin and remains reassuringly planted as the speedometer rapidly climbs into extra-legal territory.
Miro Zrncevic, Rimac’s chief development driver, tells us that they did extensive development in simulation long before Rimac built a single physical prototype for testing. “And the testing took a couple of years on its own, not just because of everything that had to be done to globally homologate the car, but also because we had specific targets that we wanted to achieve with the Nevera in terms of both performance and usability.
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