(Elbil24): Rimac Nevera is an electric car whose specifications are well out of the ordinary.
With a whopping 1,914 horsepower from an insane 2,339 Nm of torque, the car offers a top speed of over 400 km/h, and the 0-100 sprint is delivered in an incredible 1.81 seconds.
At this time last year, the car broke 23 records in one day.
Only sold about 50
In other words, people with a lot of money are unlikely to find a particularly cruder electric car than Nevera, which has a price tag of over NOK 20 million, but now it turns out that the Croatian company has only sold just over 50 of the 150 planned examples of Nevera.
The first copy was the former Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg who secured it.
– We started developing the car in 2016/17 when electric was cool, said CEO Mate Rimac at the Financial Times’ Future of the car conference in London this week, according to Autocar.
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Comparable to the Apple Watch
In the meantime, electric cars have become “mainstream”, and thus the extra privileged among us will stand out with something else, says Rimac, who draws in the Apple Watch as a comparison.
– An Apple Watch can make everything better. It can do a thousand more things, it’s much more accurate, it can measure your heart rate. But nobody wants to pay 200,000 dollars for an Apple Watch, points out the CEO.
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Don’t believe in electric hypercars
Mate Rimac is also head of Bugatti, which the company bought from Volkswagen in 2021 in a joint venture with Porsche AG.
Bugatti is soon ready with the successor to the Chiron model, with a new V16 engine, and Mate Rimac has no faith that an electric version of this car could have measured against the sales of the planned variant.
Nor does competitor Koenigsegg have plans to make an electric car in this class.
– Our customers say no, no, no – we want engine sound, says CEO Christian von Koenigsegg to Swedish Carup. The manufacturer has so far decided to scrap plans to launch an electric model.
