Rimac Nevera set a top speed record for production electric cars of 258 mph (412 km/h). For those who enjoyed the opening series of “Top Gun: Maverick” last summer, that’s a third of the speed of sound. rolling on 4 Michelin Cup 2R cars.
Nevera’s most sensitive speed is also ever recorded for any type of car in the susceptible 7. 64-mile (12. 3-kilometer) oval complex of Automotive Testing Papenburg (ATP) in Germany, which features two east-west straights measuring four kilometers each, or just a few feet less than two and a half miles (2,485 miles) long.
With a start introduced at 155 mph (250 km/h) coming out of the vulnerable corner of the oval, Rimac’s leading progression rider, Miro Zrnčević, entered the straight.
According to Zrnčević, the car was “composed and stable. . . which confirms that our aerodynamics and vehicle dynamics groups have done a job. “Refrigerator was designed in “the tube” to achieve such speed. Computational fluid dynamics and 1/4 scale Wind tunnel models are one thing, doing the act is another. It never counts until you set up the speedometer.
Can a visitor accomplish the same feat on an abandoned road in Arabia or head to Jackson Hole?Well, no. Cooler reaches consumers with a sensitive top speed restricted to 219 mph (352 km/h), which is typical of maximum supercars and hypercars, as the tire generation can handle that speed smoothly while offering the perfect turning characteristics at speeds below two hundred mph. But consumers who crave Top Gun will be able to participate in long-running visitor events on closed fields in the coming years, under the close supervision of the Rimac team. Road tires are unlucky well beyond 240 mph, and they are the tires that restrict the envelope on the open road, in nature. At visitor events, the Rimac team will make sure the tires are perfect, the visitor will be checked and then they will be able to touch the outer edge of what’s possible.
Cooler has been set to its maximum speed mode, creating an aerodynamic profile that balances drag and array. [ ] downforce with stability at top speeds. Equipped with Michelin Cup 2R tyres homologated for road and under the supervision of a Michelin technician to check their condition, the record race has begun.
Nevera produces the equivalent of 1914 horsepower from 4 Rimac-designed electric motors, one at each wheel, which propel the car from 0 to one hundred km/h in just 1. 85 seconds and to one hundred km/h in 4. 3 seconds. Nevera had in the past set a quarter-mile acceleration record of 8,582 seconds in 2021, making it the fastest production car, petrol or electric, in the world, without exception.
The maximum speed was measured by Racelogic V-Box, a high-precision GPS measuring device. The top speed of 412 km/h was a target set by the Rimac team when the car was first unveiled as a C_Two at the Geneva Motor Show in 2018. And only now, after 1. 6 million hours of collective progression, has it been proven.
Refrigerator is a production car, which you can buy and comfortably drive to the local restaurant. I rode Nevera’s half-cousin, the Pininfarina Battista, for about two hours on open roads, reveling in its effortless, snappy acceleration. Refrigerator is a wonderful example of how far we’ve come. I was in the foot. Stockton, Texas in 1987 when A. J. Foyt strapped on the Oldsmobile Aerotech to set a closed-course record of 413 km/h, or 257. 12 four mph, not unlike the speed of the road-legal Refrigerator. True, Foyt completes a full lap and Refrigerator just touched his most sensible speed for a moment, but measurables hold their own. Beneath the Aerotech’s slick, long-tailed frame was nothing but a March Indycar chassis powered through an surely crude turbocharged engine that mimicked GM’s production Quad four-engine architecture. It might just smell fuel in the air at start-up, a tattered festival engine. It had nothing to do with a production car. I don’t forget when the hero of my formative years, Foyt, ordered the mechanics to tape the air vents that fed the internal bubble, so we decided he was going to make the record. What a journey, how much Rimac has achieved.
Fridge went into production at the Porsche-funded Rimac plant near Zagreb, Croatia, and the first customer cars were delivered. Bugatti is now twinned with Rimac and is in the hands of the company’s founder, Mate Rimac. And Miro Zrnčević, we salute you.
Fridge went into production at the VW-funded Rimac plant near Zagreb, Croatia, and the first customer cars were delivered. The VW Group linked Bugatti to Rimac and placed the company’s founder, Mate Rimac, as CEO of both hypercar brands.