Rimac Takes Back 0-250-0 Mph Crown With 2,107-hp Nevera R, Sets 24 New Performance Records And Sub-8-second Quarter-mile Time

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Back successful 2023 the Rimac Nevera collapsed 23 capacity records successful 1 day, aft it had already set nan accumulation electrical conveyance apical velocity record. Basically each of those 23 records were astir acceleration and braking performance, but nan astir awesome feat was nan Nevera's clip connected a tally from 0 to 400 kilometers per hr and backmost to 0 again, aliases 0-249-0 mph. The Croatian electrical hypercar managed nan feat successful 29.93 seconds, beating the erstwhile grounds holder, nan Koenigsegg Regera, by 1.56 seconds. Koenigsegg took that grounds backmost nan aforesaid year, past past summertime it collapsed nan grounds again pinch nan Jesko, mounting a clip of 27.83 seconds. (Looking astatine 0-250-0-mph times alternatively of conscionable converting from kph and nan Jesko still group caller benchmarks.)

Enter nan Rimac Nevera R, which was first unveiled past twelvemonth during Monterey Car Week. Rimac says nan Nevera R, of which only 40 will beryllium made, is for customers who wanted moreover much capacity and better, much engaging handling. Still, Rimac gave nan Nevera R 2,107 horsepower, 193 hp much than nan modular Nevera, and if you tin judge it nan Nevera R is moreover much neck-breakingly quick. With times independently verified by Dewesoft, nan Nevera R group 24 caller capacity records and took backmost nan 0-250-0-mph crown, but I don't deliberation that grounds is what's really chaotic here: not only will the Rimac Nevera R deed 100 mph successful nether 3 seconds, it will tally nan quarter-mile successful little than 8 seconds. Yes, really. It group a caller apical velocity record, too.

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These records were group connected betwixt July 5 and 8 astatine nan Automotive Testing Papenburg proving ground, and Rimac says it was portion of nan last validation testing earlier customer deliveries start. The car was successful its high-speed mode for nan tests, which arsenic pinch its Bugatti cousins unlocks nan maximum apical speed. It wasn't connected immoderate benignant typical tire, either — conscionable Michelin Cup 2s. The Nevera R's redesigned exterior and aerodynamic package generates 15% much downforce while besides improving aerodynamic ratio by 10%, and its quad electrical motors' torque vectoring strategy tin cipher and set powerfulness transportation 100 times per second, per wheel. Now, Rimac says it group 24 records because it measured acceleration times successful some kph and mph, for illustration there's some a 0-200-kph clip (124 mph) and a 0-120-mph time. For astir of nan below, I americium going pinch nan kph times converted, arsenic those are much commonly referenced, but astatine nan bottommost of nan communicative I've put nan full chart.

Alright, first up are elemental acceleration times. Dewesoft's study says these were measured aft 1 ft of rollout was detected pinch a full velocity period of 0.5 mph. An EV arsenic powerful arsenic nan Nevera R hits that period beautiful quickly. 0-60 mph takes an excruciating 1.66 seconds, 0.08 2nd quicker than the normal Nevera. (0-100 kph, aliases 0-62 mph, took 1.72 seconds.) 0-100 mph is dispatched successful 2.96 seconds, a quarter-second betterment and quicker than a Porsche Taycan GTS hits 60 mph. The Nevera R needs 3.95 seconds to deed 124 mph (a 0.47-second improvement), 186 mph arrives successful 7.89 seconds (a 1.33-second improvement), and reaching 200 mph takes 9.25 seconds (a 1.61-second improvement). The Nevera R reaches 249 mph successful 17.35 seconds, an full 3.96 seconds quicker than nan modular car and a mates seconds earlier nan Koenigsegg Jesko reaches that mark.

The Nevera R is besides nan first accumulation car to put down a quarter-mile clip nether 8 seconds, doing it successful 7.90 seconds. Now, nan basal Nevera already would tally nan quarter-mile successful 8.25 seconds, but still, my god. It only needs 19.71 seconds to dispatch nan opinionated mile, too, almost a 2nd quicker. 

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How astir stopping? The header number present is nan 0-400-0-kph time, which useful retired to 249 mph. The Nevera R accomplished nan feat successful 25.79 seconds, 4.14 seconds quicker than nan modular Nevera and 2.04 seconds quicker than nan Jesko attack. If you want to get mph-specific pinch a information number, Rimac's measured 0-250-0-mph clip is 26.2 seconds, beating nan aged car by 5.21 seconds and besting nan Jesko by 2.07 seconds.

If moving conscionable from 0 to 60 mph and backmost to 0 again, nan Nevera R needs conscionable 3.32 seconds. It tin deed 124 mph and beryllium backmost astatine 0 successful 8.58 seconds, and it'll do 0-186-0 mph successful 14.49 seconds, much than a 2nd quicker than nan normal Nevera. Rimac hasn't said really powerful nan Nevera R's regenerative brakes are; nan modular Nevera tin decelerate astatine 0.4 g pinch 300 kW of recuperation, which is rather substantial, but nan Nevera R besides has new, larger Evo2 carbon-ceramic brakes pinch a silicone matrix layer.

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Oh yeah, and nan Nevera R's apical velocity is higher. Dewesoft certified it astatine 268.092 mph, pinch an mean velocity of precisely 268 mph complete 600 meters traveled. The institution says nan velocity was measured pinch an accuracy of 0.054 kph, truthful you cognize it's legit. That intends nan Nevera R tops retired 12 mph higher than the modular Nevera, which had group nan EV apical velocity grounds successful 2022. It's besides a tick amended than what nan Bugatti Veyron Super Sport managed. Rimac hasn't yet said if it has tested nan Nevera R successful reverse, but hopefully it tops the Nevera's 171-mph apical velocity erstwhile backing up. 

The Nevera is simply a beast astatine nan Nürburgring, having set nan electrical accumulation car grounds successful 2023 pinch a clip of 7:05.298, but that was surpassed by a fewer tenths of a 2nd earlier this twelvemonth by the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra. (The Chinese phone-company-turned-automaker has since put down a clip faster than immoderate accumulation car pinch a prototype type of its sedan, but it remains to beryllium seen what elements will make it to production.) The Nevera besides group a accumulation car hillclimb grounds astatine nan 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed by moving up that elevation successful 49.32 seconds, but the Czinger 21C hit it by astir a 2nd and a half past year

Rimac says "there's plentifulness much opportunity for Nevera R to now hunt down those remaining records and more." The institution will beryllium astatine this year's moving of nan Goodwood Festival of Speed this play pinch nan Nevera R, truthful don't beryllium amazed to spot that grounds get taken back. Regarding nan Nevera R successful general, Rimac says that erstwhile again it "has proven that its engineering and creation talent is among nan champion in the world, able to push nan limits of capacity to create nan fastest accelerating accumulation car nan world has ever seen — electrical aliases otherwise."

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