WEARING Croatian quantity plates, Rimac’s brutally highly effective Nevera has this week damaged cowl at a bridge opening ceremony within the south of the Balkan nation.
The 1430kW/2300Nm hypercar automotive rolled off Rimac’s manufacturing line every week or two again and has shocked onlookers on the opening of the equally gorgeous Pelješac bridge, a 2.4km lengthy suspension building connecting Croatia’s southern areas and the remainder of the nation… with a slice of Bosnia and Herzegovina in between.
Aside from building autos, Nevera, the main focus of a lot Croatian delight, turned the primary ‘automotive’ to cross the brand new span.
That nationwide delight in Nevera is heightened by the truth that it’s Croatia’s first automotive designed, engineered, and manufactured there to achieve homologation for the EU and US markets.
Plus, the small undeniable fact that it’s a multi-million-dollar “sledgehammer” hypercar claimed to be the quickest and quickest of the style at present accessible due to a four-motor powertrain with torque vectoring able to launching Nevera from 0-100km/h in beneath two seconds.
On the wheel for the bridge drive was Nevera’s chief engineer, Matija ReniÄ, who has a finely-honed appreciation of the size of the engineering challenges that needed to be overcome in establishing the brand new bridge.
He has been a part of the Nevera venture from day one and has overseen the event of the placing, low-slung car for the final two years.
Mr ReniÄ efficiently introduced the world’s first all-electric hypercar to manufacturing and thus created a completely new phase of efficiency vehicles within the course of.
Rimac says they’re outfitted to supply solely 150 models a yr as a result of Nevera is bespoke and hand constructed. It comes out of a purpose-built facility in Croatia.
The pure-EV Nevera was 5 years within the making working by way of 19 prototypes, 45 crash checks and 1.6 million improvement hours.
The potent powertrain is fed from a T-shaped, 120kWh battery pack that resides within the centre tunnel of the automotive and is nice for a claimed 500km plus vary in regular driving mode.
Engineers cleverly designed Nevera with a pair of two-speed gearboxes for the rear axles which implies at excessive speeds it’s going to change into rear-wheel drive.
In testing beneath managed circumstances, Nevera (the identify for a sudden tempest in Croatian) has been clocked at 1.85 seconds for the 0-100km/h dash with a prime velocity anticipated to exceed 400km/h.
Know-how from Rimac Nevera is more likely to filter by way of into autos produced by Rimac shareholders that embrace the likes of Porsche (VW Group together with Lamborghini, Bugatti and Audi), Hyundai and Pininfarina.
GoAuto understands that Lamborghini isn’t far behind Bugatti within the queue for the Croatian-developed EV expertise and Hyundai has plans for an N efficiency automotive utilizing that very same expertise.
The Rimac Group was first established by Mate Rimac in Croatia in 2009 and headquartered on the outskirts of Zagreb. It at present employs greater than 1700 folks and is endeavor the development of one of many largest R&D amenities in Europe, the so-called Rimac Campus, residence to Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Know-how.
The power will account for 50 Neveras a yr together with and tens of hundreds of battery models, electrical motors and different EV parts for Rimac Know-how shoppers.
Mate Rimac, CEO of The Rimac Group, stated: “From the very starting, the Rimac Group has been pleased with its Croatian roots. Our Nevera, is known as after a sort of storm discovered off the Croatian coast and its design language incorporates delicate nods to the cravat (necktie), which was popularised by members of the Croatian military within the seventeenth century.
“We love seeing Croatia additional develop and develop, therefore we’re proud to have taken half within the opening of the Pelješac Bridge – one other venture contributing the way forward for this nation.”
The Pelješac Bridge opening ceremony was capped within the night by Nevera’s first (silent) drive throughout, opening it to regular street site visitors.
