Heaps of Uniquely Loaded Technology
The car that exists in front of us today is an engineering marvel built from scratch within Rimac’s in-house production facility that started from a small garage in Croatia and was owned by its founder Mate Rimac’s parents.
In terms of technology and engineering, Rimac Nevera is an extraordinary machine that entirely runs on a 120kWh battery system which is controlled by an Nvidia Pegasus-based supercomputer. The supercomputer synthesizes around six terabytes of data per hour of driving, tracking 4,500 inputs. These 4,500 inputs further transmit data in the form of signals to the four independent electric motors 100 times per second.
The name Rimac Nevera sits on an impressive single-piece carbon fibre monocoque chassis that holds the front and rear crash structures along with the roof, weighing under 200 kilograms only. As Rimac Automobili claims, this single-piece carbon fibre monocoque is the largest as well as the stiffest piece of carbon fibre available in the industry, withstanding its torsional rigidity higher than that of an LMP1 racer.
The H-shape 120kWh battery pack is incorporated across the floor mostly behind the cockpit to deliver 50:50 weight distribution. If we dig into the 120kWh battery pack details, it is made up of 6,960 individual Lithium Manganese Nickel cells that are liquid-cooled with 730v of maximum voltage.
State-Of-The-Art Systems Provide an Exceptional Driving Pleasure
To bring the car to a run, there are four surface-mounted permanent magnet motors along with four individual gearboxes, each wheel runs on its own individual motors and single-speed reduction gearboxes which make the Rimac Nevera capable of being a four-wheel drive hypercar. The two motors at the front each produce 307hp and 270Nm of torque, whereas the two big motors at the rear each produce 600hp and 900Nm of torque. These four electric motors combined produce a total of 1914 HP of power and 2360 Nm of peak torque output.
With all that power, you’ll get to experience a different machine with a whining sound instead of the V8 or V12 engine roars. This is the same powertrain setup that you get to see on the Pininfarina Battista hypercar, that’s because Rimac Automobili supplies Pininfarina, amongst others, including Ferrari, Hyundai, Porsche, Koenigsegg and Aston Martin. Apart from that, Rimac Nevera comes equipped with heaps of technology including its torque-vectoring system that enables the car to configure the distribution of considerable power output available to the four electric motors.
Furthermore, Rimac’s torque-vectoring system can also be manually customized by the driver himself. This torque-vectoring system can smartly calculate which wheel requires more of traction and can shift the torque output between 0 to 100% depending on the terrain. Also, you can transfer 100 percent of the torque to the rear wheels and watch this beautiful hypercar drift, which Rimac terms the “drift mode”.
Rimac Nevera – An Hypercar That Never Loses its Control
If we put all things together, Rimac Nevera weighs around 2,150 kgs including the weight of major components such as the inverters, traction control system, regenerative braking system, high-voltage and low-voltage harnesses, electronic control units and a bespoke 22kW on-board AC charger. Additionally, Rimac Nevera offers a 490-kilometer WLTP drive range once fully charged that takes nearly 19 minutes to go from zero to an 80 percent state of charge when plugged into a 500 kW charger.
In terms of performance and driving dynamics, Rimac offers an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Driver Coach functionality that gets updated timely over a built-in over-the-air update system. AI Driver Coach utilizes Nevera’s suite of ultrasonic and radar sensors in coordination with its 13 cameras, to help drivers learn racetracks and perfect their lines, providing real-time guidance as you’re driving on the road or a circuit. The Rimac Nevera is the fastest electric car in the world that’s in production.
It can reach 0-100 kmph in just 1.81 seconds and can go for a top speed of up to 412kmph/258mph. This also proves the Rimac Nevera is the fastest-accelerating production car on the earth to date.
Once all of that technology and engineering meet the horizon, Rimac Nevera turns into a brutal machine that quickly moves your head back against the headrest. With default settings, you don’t even need to hold the steering wheel to accelerate hard in a straight line, as the system controls traction and stability automatically while providing you enough confidence to accelerate harder deploying its full potential to the road.