This week marked the public debut of the Rimac Nevera, formerly known as C Two, the most insane production version electric vehicle to date. During the launch, one as-yet-unnamed driver did his best to max it out on a public road, and then had video of it posted online.
Back in 2018, Croatian company Rimac pulled the wraps off what was back then one of the craziest electric hypercar concepts shown at the Geneva Motor Show. Enough time seems to have passed since for the vehicle to mature enough and be unveiled on the first day of June as the craziest production version electric vehicle of this year. So far.
It looks like all those millions of drag races that Mat staged for carwow over the last few years are paying off for him (and us as well). That's because while the rest of the world sat waiting for the official reveal of the new Rimac electric hypercar, Mr. Watson was out on the track of a sunny airfield in Croatia, experiencing the Nevera firsthand.
Rimac C Two Humiliates Porsche Taycan Turbo S in Blistering 8s Quarter-Mile Run 26 Apr 2021, 7:59 UTC ·
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Mate Rimac, the founder and CEO of Rimac Automobili, probably felt the opportunity to keep the momentum going after a video of a C Two acceleration run surfaced on the internet, so he decided to come out and offer us a bit more information about the upcoming electric hypercar. 6 photos
The video gives a transparent view of how the car s development is going as Mate doesn t try to hide or sugarcoat anything. Compare that to Elon Musk s way of doing things, and you couldn t get two more divergent pictures even if you tried. Admittedly, the two companies operate on different scales one sells a handful of really expensive hypercars, the other shifts 500,000 units a year so it s natural to be managed differently.
Rimac C Two Challenges New Tesla Roadster with Real-World 8 Second 1/4 Mile Pass 25 Apr 2021, 20:32 UTC ·
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Rimac didn t even try to hide the fact it was competing with Musk s company to make the most potent electric performance vehicle by immediately adjusting the C Two s numbers so that they were marginally better than Tesla s. We re talking hundredths of a second here, but the message was clear.
Well, unlike the Roadster which seems to have disappeared into a black hole while Musk finds all sorts of excuses for missing one deadline after another, the Rimac C Two doesn t hide and seems to be almost ready. To be fair, the company s second model should have already been out by now, but then pandemics happened so we re now looking at the end of this year for the first customer deliveries.