May the 12th, 2024 – Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac has been in London recently, where he discussed the sales of the Nevera hypercar.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the magnificent successor to the Nevera, the electric hypercar created in the “workshop” of Mate Rimac, will most likely not be an electric vehicle. The above was written by the popular British Autocar in a text which stated that the Nevera 2021 was presented as an evolution of the C_Two concept.
In the same year, deliveries and production of 150 models began. The company hasn’t yet sold that number, but the CEO Mate Rimac attributes that to the overall falling demand for ultra-high-end electric vehicles we’ve seen of late.
“We started developing the Nevera back in 2016/2017, when electric drive was cool,” commented Rimac at the Financial Times Future of the Car conference in London, emphasising that the Nevera market exists and that it is the best-selling electric hypercar by far.
“We’ve already delivered more than 50 cars out of a total of 150,” Rimac said, adding that since then, the market environment has evolved and tastes have changed as national legislation and major car manufacturers strive to make electric cars mainstream.
“Regulatory bodies and some OEMs are pushing it so hard that the story has changed somewhat. They impose things on us that we don’t want. That makes people kind of move away from that whole forced application. I’m always against it. I think everything has to be based on values. Therefore, the product must be better and better,” said Rimac.
The truly remarkable Nevera was developed in part as an example of what could be achieved with motors and batteries at a time when that type of technology was still in its infancy and had yet to be fully embraced by mainstream manufacturers.
Rimac explained in London that back at the time, they thought that electric cars would be cool in a few years – the best cars or with the best performance… “We’ve noticed that as electrification becomes more and more mainstream, people at the top of the sector want to differentiate themselves in some way.”
