Rimac is still a silent star.

He has long been involved in this.

Rimac owns 55 percent of Bugatti-Rimac, a company founded last year.

The rest belongs to Porsche, which in turn holds 24 percent of Rimac.

Boris Smith

Editor in the "Technology and Engine" department.

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The career of Croatian Mate Rimac, who grew up in Frankfurt am Main, is reminiscent of that of Elon Musk.

The mid-thirties Rimac appears much more discreet and probably had the worse starting conditions.

And now he delivers.

The first five Nevera have been produced in Zagreb after 60 months of development, the wear and tear of 18 prototypes and nine vehicles in 45 crash tests and 1.6 million test kilometers.

It takes five weeks to make a nevera by hand, and the 50 copies that should be ready in the first year have already been sold.

Two million euros each.

Net.

The factory has 1,500 employees, and initially there will not be more than 150 Nevera.

25 dealers in the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia will take care of sales and maintenance.

The name Nevera denotes an unexpected summer storm on the Croatian coast.

Car fans draw mental parallels to the Maserati Mistral.

The Rimac can take on the strongest winds, four electric motors in each wheel deliver 1914 hp, and the acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h should be possible in 1.85 seconds.

The top speed is somewhere beyond 400 km/h.

Despite batteries that can store a whopping 120 kWh of energy, the range should not be far off when the 4.75 meter long and 1.21 meter flat super sports car, which weighs around 2.2 tons, is exhausted.

However, Rimac specifies 547 kilometers in “range mode”.

As fast as the Nevera drives, Rimac has catapulted itself into the auto industry.

He even helped to develop the next Porsche 911 Hybrid.