Evolving market and slow Nevera sales push Croatian EV firm to realise the importance of analogue appeal.
Rimac hasn't sold all 150 examples of its Nevera electric hypercar, and any replacement is unlikely to be an EV.
"The regulators and some OEMs [manufacturers] push it so much that the narrative has changed. They're pushing stuff on us that we don't want, so people get a little bit repulsed by it, this whole forced application.
"I'm always against it. I think everything has to be based on merit. So the product has to be better."
"We notice [now] that as electrification is becoming mainstream, people at the top end of the sector want to differentiate themselves."
"We do have a market for the Nevera, and it is the best-sold electric hypercar. We have already delivered more than 50 cars out of a total of 150."
He added that "if we did an electric Bugatti, we would have sold an amount of them, for sure, because of the brand", but that amount would have been "nowhere near" the estimated amount it will sell of the V16-engined Chiron successor.
"Rimac isn’t exclusively electric; it’s doing whatever is most exciting at the time,” he said, citing LPG, hydrogen and even diesel as potential fuels that could be used in this set-up.
Aspark Owl: ~3 de 50 Lotus Evija: ~18 de 130 Pininfarina Battista: ~10 de 150 Rimac Nevera: >50 de 150
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