Friday, June 02, 2023

Electric Car Goes Dangerously Fast



When electric car first became available, they were described as useful for running errands around town, but not for road trips. Later models proved that wrong, but many car enthusiasts doubted that electrics would ever be used for hauling (and now they are) or racing. Then a small auto company in Croatia, Rimac Automobili, introduced the electric hypercar Rimac Nevera.

Automann-TV takes the 1913 horsepower Rimac Nevera out on the Autobahn to check out its acceleration potential, specifically how fast it can go from 100 km/h to 200 km/h (62 mph to 124 mph). Can its four electric motors and 120 kilowatt battery keep up? You betcha, and it only takes three second to go from 100 to 200.

Somehow, I get the feeling that this supercar is not so much about saving the environment (and how could it at those speeds), but more about proving that electric cars can and do perform as well as gas guzzlers on the racetrack. This may sway some who feel internal combustion engines should be kept around for specialty uses. (via Born in Space)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now hit it with a big-ass morningstar and see what happens!

Bicycle Rider said...

And only $2,200,000.

xoxoxoBruce said...

An EV is subject to the same compromises as other vehicles. They can be designed and built to go fast, go far, haul heavy loads, but pick one, they can't do it all.
In 1899 a Belgian electric car held the land speed record for a road going vehicle of 65 mph, with 2 motors each drawing 124 amps at 200 volts but couldn't go far or carry much.

When you spend $2.2 million on a Rimac where to you keep it? In a fireproof, bomb proof bunker with armed guards? How much is insurance and what kind of rules does the policy come with? Where do you find escort vehicles that can keep up? When and where do you drive it? Valet parking?

WilliamRocket said...

KPM ?

Kilometres per minute ?

Miss Cellania said...

Oops! My fault. Fixed, now thanks!