Rimac Automobili

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Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 15 ° 47 ′ 31.6 ″  E

Rimac Automobili doo

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legal form Društvo s ograničenom odgovornošću
founding 2009
Seat Sveta Nedelja , CroatiaCroatiaCroatia 
management Mate Rimac
Number of employees 162 (December 31, 2017)
sales 50.3 million HRK (December 31, 2017)
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website rimac-automobili.com

Rimac Automobili [ rǐːmats automobǐːli ], based in Sveta Nedelja near Zagreb in Croatia, is a Croatian automobile manufacturer that develops and manufactures electric super sports cars , drives and battery systems. The company was founded in 2009 by Mate Rimac .

Rimac's first model, the Concept_One , is known as the world's fastest mass-produced electric vehicle. Rimac builds and markets the high-performance vehicles under its own name, and the company also develops and manufactures battery systems, drives and complete vehicles for other companies ( e.g. Applus + IDIADA Volar-E ). At the 88th Geneva Motor Show in March 2018, the company presented its second model, the C_Two .

history

Mate Rimac

The foundation stone for the company was laid in 2007 as the hobby workshop of the founder Mate Rimac. Much of the early funding came from Engel investors and the sale of its own patents .

Rimac Automobili was officially founded in 2009 in Sveta Nedelja , near Zagreb ( Croatia ), where suitable facilities were rented. Initially, Mate Rimac's converted e-M3 served as Rimac Automobili's first prototype . The company's founder and CEO began converting this car at the age of 19: “I owned an old BMW E30 (MY 1984) that I used for drift and circuit races. In one of these races the internal combustion engine suddenly exploded. At that moment I decided to build an electric car. After a year the car was able to drive, but I wasn't happy with the result. The car was heavy, not very strong, and the range was very limited. It is for this reason that I started to form a team of experts to develop our own components as I felt that the electric drive could give a lot more compared to what is available in the market. At that time I already had a clear idea of ​​my ultimate goal. Today, hard work makes my dream come true. "

Models

Concept_One
Concept S
C_Two

Green monster

The BMW E30 prototype, named by the designers as the “Green Monster” ( Croatian Zeleno čudovište ), was the electric vehicle with the fastest acceleration in category A from 2011 with an acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h in 3.3 s , Group VIII (electric vehicle) and Class 3 (over 1000 kg). The “Green Monster” develops an output of 442 kW (601 PS), a torque of 900 Nm, reaches 100 km / h from standstill in 3.3 seconds and has a top speed of 280 km / h. After five more development updates, the e-M3 broke the FIA ​​record and is officially considered the electric vehicle with the greatest acceleration.

  • Records set on April 17th, 2011:
    • 1/8 mile: 7.549 s
    • 1/4 mile: 11.808 s
    • 1/2 km: 13.714 s
    • 1 km: 23.260 s
    • 1 mile: 35.347 s

The original 3-series BMW went through five stages of redevelopment, with the car becoming faster, lighter and more reliable each time. Here Mate Rimac realized that very little was left of the production vehicle and decided to build a completely new vehicle.

Concept_One

The Rimac Concept_One is a two - seat electric powered sports car designed and manufactured by Rimac Automobili. With an output of 800 kW (1088 PS) and 1600 Nm of torque, it accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in 2.8 seconds and is referred to as the first electric super sports car, as well as the most powerfully accelerating electric car in 2013. Eight vehicles were sold by October 2014. In 2016, the final version improved the output to 900 kW (1224 PS) and accelerated from 0 to 100 km / h in 2.5 seconds. The top speed of the Concept_One is 355 km / h.

It was presented at the International Motor Show 2011 in Frankfurt am Main and at the Paris Motor Show 2012. A car was delivered to a Spanish customer in January 2013.

Concept S

Rimac presented its successor, the Rimac Concept_S, at the Geneva Motor Show 2016. It has a maximum output of 1018 kW (1384 hp) and the maximum torque is 1800 Nm. The car takes 2.5 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h, 5.6 seconds to 200 km / h and 13.1 seconds to 300 km / h. The speed is electronically limited to 365 km / h. The vehicle has carbon ceramic - brake discs .

C_Two

At the Geneva Motor Show 2018, Rimac presented the successor model Rimac C_Two. A maximum of 150 units of the vehicle are to be sold at a retail price of over one million euros. The vehicle has one electric motor per wheel, which together achieve 1408 kW (1914 hp) and 2300 Nm. The vehicle should accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in under 2 seconds (if necessary, however, only with racing tires) and from 0 to 300 km / h in under 12 seconds. The maximum speed should be 412 km / h. The accumulator is built into the center tunnel and has a capacity of 120 kWh, which should be enough for a range of 650 km according to the NEDC. It can be charged from empty to 80 percent in less than 30 minutes. Furthermore, the vehicle should be capable of level 4 autonomous driving. Eight cameras, a lidar sensor , six radar systems and twelve ultrasonic sensors are installed for this. The vehicle set-up should automatically adapt to the weather and the mood of the driver.

Parts manufacturing

Rimac is also responsible for the KERS hybrid drive in Aston Martin's new supercar, the Valkyrie . The company also produces the battery system for Koenigsegg Automotive (especially for the Koenigsegg Regera ) and Jaguar , as well as for other car manufacturers, and developed infotainment systems for Renault . In 2018, she entered into a technical partnership with Pininfarina , whose new vehicle, the Pininfarina PFo , will be based on the same platform as the C_Two.

Rimac is also involved in the production of drivetrains and other components for racing vehicles, for example for Nobuhiro Tajima , with whom she debuted with the jointly electrically powered “Tajima Rimac E-Runner Concept_One” at the 2015 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb . The car finished the race in second place, ahead of all internal combustion engine cars.

The Hyundai Motor Group has been cooperating with Rimac since 2019 . From this cooperation, Hyundai and Kia each want to produce a new, high-performance electric car by 2020.

Corporate structure

Ownership structure

  • 52.06%: Mate Rimac
  • 19.35%: Camel Group
  • 15.50%: Porsche AG
  • 8.06%: China Dynamics
  • 4.84%: New Audomovile Development
  • 1.61%: Integrated Asset Management
  • 1.61%: Adriano Mudri
  • 0.81%: Ziad Tassabehji
  • 0.04%: Paul Runge

Status: September 2019

subsidiary company

In 2013, Rimac founded Greyp Bikes , a subsidiary of Rimac Automobili, with the aim of manufacturing high-performance electric bikes .

Web links

Commons : Rimac Automobili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  13. ↑ Mike Duff: Pininfarina Will Build Its Own Version of the Rimac EV Hypercar. Car and Driver, April 25, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Jonathan M. Gitlin: 1500-hp electric cars racing up the side of a mountain: We're going to Pikes Peak. Ars Technica, June 4, 2016, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Matt Burt: Rimac eyes Pikes Peak electric car record with 1455bhp racer. Autocar, June 2, 2015, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors invest 80M EUR in Rimac and establish a technology partnership. Rimac Automobili, May 14, 2019, accessed May 21, 2019 .
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  19. ↑ NOVI PROJECT MATE RIMCA: Električni bicikl s kojim želi promijeniti svijet. Jutarnji list , August 21, 2013, accessed May 3, 2017 (Croatian).