Rimac unveils Nevera R at campus

Electric hypercars are one thing. Building a company that can actually make them — and supply other carmakers too — is the harder trick. That is the real story behind Rimac putting the Nevera R in front of journalists at its campus in Kerestinec on October 18, 2024. The car was the hook, but the event was really about showing that Rimac now has a physical base big enough to match the ambition. ### What was actually unveiled? Rimac did not launch the Nevera R for the first time at the campus. The model had already been shown in August 2024 at The Quail in California. What changed in Croatia was the framing — this was the local public presentation of the car alongside the opening push around Rimac Campus phase one. Basically, the company put the product and the factory story on the same stage. (rimac-newsroom.com) ### So what is the Nevera R? The Nevera R is the more focused version of the standard Nevera. Rimac describes it as moving from “Hyper GT” toward “Hyper Sportscar,” which sounds like marketing — but there is real hardware behind it. The car gets 2,107 hp, a performance-oriented battery setup, larger brakes, more downforce, and revised torque vectoring aimed at cornering, not just straight-line records. (diplomacyandcommerce.hr) ### How different is it on paper? Pretty different. Rimac says the Nevera R uses a 108 kWh battery pack and reaches 300 km/h in 7.89 seconds on the product page, while the newsroom materials describe 300 km/h in 8.66 seconds and emphasize a 15% downforce gain, 10% aerodynamic-efficiency improvement, 5% more lateral grip, and a 3.8-second quicker lap at Nardò’s handling track. The exact acceleration figure varies by Rimac page, but the direction is clear — this is the track-sharpened Nevera. (rimac-newsroom.com) ### Why pair it with the campus? Because the campus is the bigger credibility play. Phase one was described as complete on October 18, 2024, covering about 75,000 m² of production space within a 100,000 m² total site plan. Rimac says the campus will house development and assembly for the Nevera and Nevera R, plus prototype work, composites, CNC machining, upholstery, and paint. In other words, the car helps glamorize the facility, and the facility helps legitimize the car. (rimac-automobili.com) ### Is this about production scale yet? Not really — at least not in the “we are delivering lots of these now” sense. The most revealing detail from the Croatian event was actually how limited the hypercar side still is. The Nevera R was described as capped at 40 units with a starting price of €2.3 million, and one sold at that point. The earlier Nevera had a planned run of 150, with 39 produced by then. That is boutique manufacturing, not volume. (rimac-newsroom.com) ### Then where is the volume story? In Rimac Technology, not the hypercars. At the event, Mate Rimac talked up battery-system lines for BMW and other unnamed German manufacturers, and the official campus release said the site would also support three new high-volume battery projects for premium European carmakers. So the halo car grabs attention, but the supplier business is where industrial scale starts to show up. (diplomacyandcommerce.hr) ### Why does that matter for Rimac? Because Rimac has always had two identities — exotic-car maker and behind-the-scenes technology supplier. The campus presentation says the company wants those two stories to reinforce each other. The Nevera R shows what Rimac can build at the edge. The campus is meant to show that the same engineering culture can be turned into repeatable manufacturing. (diplomacyandcommerce.hr) ### Bottom line? The campus event was less a manufacturing milestone for the Nevera R than a positioning move. Rimac used a spectacular car to make a more practical point: the company now wants to be seen not just as the builder of a wild electric hypercar, but as an industrial automotive player with a serious home base. (rimac-newsroom.com)