Rimac Nevera

Exquisite Quality Touch with a Spacious Cabin

When you step inside the Rimac Nevera, you’ll be able to sense an extraordinary premium quality touch. Something obvious to be expected considering more than a million-dollar Rimac Nevera price tag.

The seating posture is quite amazing with a low-set windscreen base that provides good visibility. Rimac Nevera offers a two-seat cabin that smartly wraps around you in a way as if it were an extension of your body. Like the exteriors, the cabin design feels minimalistic but sophisticated, with fewer fancy buttons around the cabin. The battery placement inside the car needs to be appreciated as well, all thanks to its H-shaped design, which allows the bucket chairs to be mounted as low as possible to the ground.

Furthermore, the positions of the seats as well as the steering wheel can be electrically adjusted via the central touchscreen to your liking.

Like any other electric car, Rimac Nevera runs on its in-house infotainment software that allows access to useful data and customization to enhance the overall driving experience. The infotainment software graphics are crisp and easy to read at one glance, with a set of solid physical buttons under the central touch screen for more functionality. You can even adjust the side mirrors, climate control, and navigation from the same central touch screen.

Apart from that, you will notice unique twist dials next to the steering wheel which can be twisted, pushed, or pulled depending on the alteration of the drive settings. However, one might get confused with those round dials as AC vents at a glance, unless you take a closer look at their functionality. Another large digital screen houses the instrument console in front of the driver’s seat. This instrument console can be customized as per what information the driver wants to see in front of him while enthusiastically enjoying his roller coaster ride with great visibility.

Uncompromised Comfort at Your Fingertips

This is a car that will not make you feel tired at long drives as well despite being a hypercar. The flat-bottomed steering wheel gives you a great sense of control with its electronic assistance on the go. The steering unit houses buttons on the spokes that are made of high-quality materials.

Rimac Nevera is a different car from inside with each corner of Nevera’s cabin designed and built by Rimac Automobili from scratch. You won’t find its high-quality switchgear in any other car. Although the bucket seats are manufactured by Sabelt as per Rimac’s specification to allow for worldwide homologation. Rimac Automobili gives you the option to customize the interiors of this car in a variety of materials including leather as well as non-leather trims.

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.

Superior Handling Dynamics in Coalition With Electronics

The best part about the Rimac Nevera is its unmatchable handling and the feedback it provides once you hit the pedal to its floor. We have never seen any other Hypercar with such an amazing sense of feel and feedback that the Nevera provides to its driver, as it seamlessly makes you feel as if the car is functioning just as an extension of your body.

Driving the Rimac Nevera is something sensational as well as unique in its own terms. The amount of confidence you feel while holding the steering of this car is remarkable, as everything seems to be just in control as one would prefer. Trust us, you will never feel getting used to it, because when the Nevera comes into action you can sense an immediate change of characteristics within this hypercar while still being in great control.

Unlike most other hypercars, the Rimac Nevera is not going to scare you while driving despite being a 1918 horsepower machine. With such a massive power output there needs to be a great amount of traction control to handle all of that power and torque. Well, this car will not disappoint you in any order, as the Nevera has been specifically tuned by Rimac to work incredibly well in every character you throw it in.

Its finely tuned electronics address the car relentlessly to provide you with the best driving experience ever, whether you take it offroad or onroad, whether you want to go slow or fast. The Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system functions extraordinarily in search of the best grip available to each wheel.

Glides Like a Cloud With 326 Percent More Downforce

However, handling this electric beast properly might take you some time and effort as the car behaves differently in each drive mode you select from the five drive modes available; Range, Cruise, Sport, Track, and Drift.

Each drive mode has a unique set of tuning maps for the throttle, ESC, steering, dampers, and aerodynamics. Rimac Nevera is more of a gran turismo than a proper track-day car. The acceleration response is terrific, it feels like you’re running way faster than you are supposed to. The acceleration on this hypercar is so quick, indeed, it makes a 1600bhp Bugatti Chiron Supersport look quite slow in competition to this car in a straight-line drag race. And once you hit its full throttle, the Nevera doesn’t have any fake sounds of a V-8 or V-12 engine tuned to appease your ears, but all you can hear are four whirring motors—pretty loud and sensational of a high-end electric hypercar.

The Rimac Nevera has an astounding advantage when you push it around corners, as you can sense how much torque is being pumped out through each wheel in front of your eyes on the instrument console. If we dig more through the driving modes, it is Track or Drift mode where you can slide it into the corners and push the throttle to its full at the exit of a corner by accelerating sooner and harder. The electronics are always there for you though, unless you switch them all off, which we suggest you not do. The electronics of the Nevera are there to deliver maximum edge and as much feel through the steering and seats at all times.

Miroslav Zrnčević, a former automotive journalist who started a car magazine in Croatia is now the official development driver for Rimac Automobili. Everyone calls him Miro here at Rimac. He’s the man who piloted the Nevera to 256 mph, a world record for an electric car, along with several other FIA and Guinness world records, including the fastest electric hypercar driving in reverse. Miro states “the Nevera felt like it was just getting warmed up” when he broke all of these world records.

Quick and Regenerative Braking Performance

One thing that scares us still is the absence of a roll cage, which could have been an addition in terms of the overall safety of the driver. Furthermore, the suspension of the Rimac Nevera is not any different as it’s a hypercar. You can not expect the Nevera to be soft and plush to drive being a hypercar. It comes equipped with double unequal-length wishbones at each corner with electronically adjustable dampers all around.

Last but not least, if we talk about the brakes, Rimac Nevera features a set of four large carbon ceramic discs with 6-piston calipers. These brake calipers are further assisted by electronic systems, however, even if the e-systems fail to function the brakes of the car still work conventionally. The same goes with the steering, as you’ll still be able to operate the Nevera despite an e-systems failure. As an integral part of the systems, this car is even capable of regenerating power on the move with an awe-inspiring analogue-like feel.

The Final Verdict – Rimac Automobili

To be true, there are plenty of fast and convincing hypercar options available in the market other than the Rimac Nevera. Let it be the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, the Mercedes-AMG One, Koenigsegg Jesko, the Aston Martin Valkyre, the Lotus Evija, and the list goes so on. However, the confidence that you gain behind the steering wheel of this car is something phenomenal. As there are only 150 limited units to be produced for the world, Rimac Nevera counts among one of the highly exclusive hypercars around the world. Considering Rimac’s knowledge of technology, batteries, inverters, and e-motors, they have developed almost everything in-house from scratch.

From the beginning of 2024, we are rapidly stepping towards the electric age with day-to-day electrical revolutions gathering serious momentum. Rimac Automobili, a 12-year-old automobile manufacturer born from the grounds of Nikola Tesla, is headed by a nearly 30-year-old CEO, and that too from a country that has no history of making any car before. By the name of Tesla, do not get confused between Elon Musk’s American theme “Tesla”.

We are talking about Croatia, the homeland of scientist Nikola Tesla who gave us the invention of alternating current (AC) electricity in 1856. Since the discovery of Rimac Automobili, everything we thought we knew about hypercars changed significantly.

Handcrafted With Precision

Built by hand in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, the Nevera is a beautiful combination of art and engineering. Consisting of the second-largest battery pack available on a production car along with giant 15.3-inch six-piston carbon-ceramic Brembo brakes, an electronically adjustable suspension, and active aerodynamics, Rimac Nevera price certainly lives up to its billing. If you’re wondering who has the largest battery pack available on a production car? Well, the American startup Rivian’s battery pack is larger, at 133 kWh.

In terms of an overall package, it features a 3.5-cubic foot trunk space where on the other hand you’ll get to see a V8, V12, or W16 engine on most other cars accessed through the rear glass. The design here is somewhat less flashy, however, if you want the same fun with better aesthetics then you can check out the Pininfarina Battista which has the same mechanical setup as of the Nevera. That’s because Rimac Automobili is also building the mechanically identical Pininfarina Battista alongside the Nevera for those searching for a visual appeal.

What’s the Future Of Rimac Automobili?

It’s only the starting point for the Croatian company, both Hyundai and Porsche own parts of the company. Rimac even serves its engineering arm licensing its technology to Koenigsegg and Aston Martin, and it just bought Bugatti from Volkswagen. Apart from that, Rimac Technology has even joined hands with the BMW Group for a long-term partnership recently in April 2024. Coming back to the Nevera, if we keep all the world records apart including the fastest electric car in the world tag. Is the Rimac Nevera worth its price tag? The answer to this question is quite long. As of being a hypercar, Rimac Nevera justifies its price as an incredibly exciting piece of automotive technology and art rolled into one that could be driven for long distances comfortably.

Is The Nevera a Package Worth Consideration?

Ignoring Rimac’s big, bold claims, Rimac Nevera still offers decent promising technology wrapped in an engaging hypercar form. But unfortunately for British as well as Indian buyers, the steering wheel on all cars will be on the left-hand side. One more thing is that the Rimac Nevera top speed limit is governed to 219 mph only. It is not that the car is not capable of going any further but Rimac asks you to find the tires good for 256 mph, and they are ready to discuss and do it for you.

It’s quite hard to come to a solid conclusion about the Rimac Nevera. An Accommodating cockpit, stunning on-road comfort. Easily wins a drag race against anything you compete it with, as a car the Nevera is simply far, far better than you’d expect. A masterpiece of performance engineering and design.