The Nevera is Rimac’s first “sequence manufacturing” automotive, following on from the Croatian firm’s first mannequin, the Concept_One.
Although the latter was additionally an electrical hypercar, the 2 fashions share nothing, because the Nevera was created from the bottom up as a brand new automotive with virtually each part developed in-house.
It options 4 electrical motors, giving the carbon-tubbed coupe sufficient efficiency for Rimac to say the Nevera is the quickest electrical automotive on the earth.
Solely 150 examples of the Rimac can be made and there are nonetheless manufacturing slots accessible inside that. To see what all of the fuss is about, we travelled to Zagreb for a manufacturing facility tour earlier than taking the Nevera for a drive on highway and monitor.
Rimac even allow us to use the insane Drift mode to soften a number of tyres.
How a lot does the Rimac Nevera value?
It ain’t low-cost.
Pricing begins at €2 million ($3.16 million) in Europe. There are three normal trim ranges to select from: GT, Signature and Timeless.
Naturally, prospects can select to trim and equip the to their tastes as far their budgets will stretch.
All autos can be inbuilt left-hand drive. As famous earlier, manufacturing is capped at 150 models worldwide.
What’s the Rimac Nevera like on the within?
As you’d hope from a crazy-expensive hypercar, even stepping into the Nevera is an expertise.
There’s a bespoke carbon-fibre tub beneath accommodating a big H-shaped battery pack, however Rimac has designed all of it itself, so the battery is packaged to permit the driving force and passenger sit low down within the automotive.
Regardless of that, and the ultra-low roof, entry and exit are made straightforward by butterfly doorways that incorporate a part of the roof and the aspect sills.
You sit in figure-hugging buckets seats made by Sabelt to Rimac’s specification, and the upholstery alternative is as much as you – although Mate Rimac; the corporate’s founder, would favor in the event you selected one of many ‘vegan’ finishes.
Whichever takes your fancy, the Nevera’s cabin is festooned with bespoke switchgear – even the infotainment software program is an in-house creation.
Beneath the central touchscreen is a financial institution of stable bodily buttons, whereas Rimac is rightfully pleased with its massive protruding stalk controls that may be pushed, pulled or rotated to permit the driving force to pick out from the myriad driving modes.
It’s a welcome analogue contact to what’s undoubtedly a automotive of the digital era.
We’re not so satisfied by the steering wheel, nevertheless, which has Ferrari-like buttons for the symptoms, however forward of that may be a fantastically sharp digital display housing the customisable instrumentation.
What’s beneath the bonnet?
We’ve talked about the H-shaped battery pack. That has a 120kWh capability for a theoretical vary of as much as 480 kilometres between prices.
Rimac designed its personal AC on-board charger, whereas additionally endowing the Nevera with DC charging functionality of as much as 500kW – i.e. quicker than any Australian EV charger presently can handle.
Talking of quicker, the battery sends power to 4 electrical motors, two on the entrance and two on the again, all independently managed.
Most energy is quoted as 1408kW, backed up by 1740Nm of torque. Rimac had deliberate to make use of a two-speed transmission, a method used on the Porsche Taycan, however as an alternative designed its personal motors and their operation to make use of single-speed gearboxes.
In response to Rimac, the Nevera can hit 100km/h from relaxation in simply 1.97 seconds, regardless of weighing 2150kg. It just lately went on to high 412km/h to set a brand new world report for electrical vehicles, although buyer autos can solely be pushed at such speeds following particular preparation by the manufacturing facility to make sure that the tyres are in good situation and so on.
Encouragingly, although, the launch management facility can be utilized at any time, with out pre-warming the battery pack or something – and effectively over 1000kW continues to be accessible even when the battery is at 30 per cent cost.
How does the Rimac Nevera drive?
Regardless of the headline-grabbing figures and the hypercar billing, Rimac is adamant that the Nevera has been developed to play the function of a GT automotive, too.
To persuade us, the corporate allow us to drive the automotive on a busy freeway, then a decent and twisty again highway with a greasy floor, and eventually via a small city earlier than we arrived at a check monitor to essentially push the automotive to its limits.
Key to the Nevera’s broad breadth of functionality is adaptive damping and energetic ride-height adjustment. Nevertheless, there’s a giant host of sub-systems which are tweaked based on the chosen driving mode.
On the highway, the driving force chooses from Vary (for optimum effectivity), Cruise for long-distance driving in consolation and Sport for lots extra focus and response.
There’s a tangible distinction between the three, because the steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire programs, aerodynamics, trip top, damping, throttle response and the cut up of the torque front-to-rear are all adjusted – together with the proprietary torque vectoring system. All of those components will be tweaked by the driving force and saved in one among two customized modes, too.
The brakes really feel a bit odd at on a regular basis site visitors speeds, however the steering is alive and seemingly full of knowledge. Although the Nevera feels a bit too broad for city driving, visibility is nice, so it endows the driving force with confidence to make use of the automotive.
Out on quicker, however damp, roads, that’s strengthened as a bit slip of the rear is clearly communicated to the driving force and simple to rectify.
By all this, the Nevera’s efficiency is easy, quite than dominating the expertise. In its softest setting, the suspension continues to be agency, however the automotive strikes with the floor, so it’s not uncomfortable on the freeway.
It’s not what you’d name quiet, although. Rimac fortunately prevented the temptation to give you its personal artificial noise signature, however the motors make a particular sound of their very own, rising in pitch as you journey quicker. It’s massively completely different to an inside combustion engine’s observe after all, but it surely’s thrilling in its personal means.
That pleasure steps up a number of rungs once we hit the circuit and check out the Observe and Drift modes. The latter is simply foolish, making it laughably straightforward to soften away the tyres in a cloud of smoke ought to you’ve the area and inclination.
Curiously, Rimac doesn’t simply use the rear motors for this trick, however selectively sends power to the entrance motors, too, permitting the driving force appear to be drifting royalty with out making an attempt too arduous in any respect.
The Nevera is much more spectacular in the event you attempt to drive it shortly on monitor with out the showboating. The torque vectoring system employs all 4 motors as want be to maintain the automotive pointing within the route the driving force supposed and but, one way or the other, it nonetheless feels participating and as in the event you’re a part of the method.
It devours straights of any size in a laughably quick period of time, so it takes a number of laps in your mind to catch up and realise that you’ll want to begin braking a bit earlier. However the Nevera can also be fairly forgiving, and the brakes are wonderful on this surroundings.
It’s an electrical automotive you’ll wish to use on a monitor, that’s for positive.
What do you get?
Aerodynamics
Lively elementsBonnetFront underbody flapRear diffuserRear wing
Chassis and construction
Carbon-fibre monocoqueBonded carbon-fibre roofCarbon-fibre rear subframeCarbon-fibre, aluminium crash structuresElectro-hydraulic brakesBrake-by-wire functionalityBreak-blendingPedal really feel simulator390mm 6-piston brakes (entrance and rear)
ADAS {hardware}
13 cameras6 radars12 ultrasonic sensors
Security programs
Twin entrance, aspect airbagsTorque vectoringTraction controlStability management
Tyres
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S275/35 R20 front315,35 R20 rear
CarExpert’s Tackle the Rimac Nevera
Whereas the Nevera undoubtedly lives as much as its grown-up set of efficiency numbers, it’s much more particular than they convey.
It’s one of the vital high-tech vehicles on the earth, constructed by a Croatian firm that’s fresh-faced and modern. Certain, it’s hideously costly, and there are a number of quirks to get used to, however equally, there’s little or no prefer it available on the market.
Consider it as being a part of this firm’s superb beginnings, and the worth doesn’t appear so loopy compared to many old-school supercars available on the market.
We now have little question that Rimac has a brilliant future forward of it – hopefully it’ll make its approach to Australia ultimately.
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