Rimac Nevera sprints from zero to 96 km/h in record 1.74 seconds

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The Rimac Nevera has just laid down a benchmark in the ultra-competitive world of high-performance hypercars, one that won’t be easily beat. The all-electric Croatian hypercar set a mind-boggling 23 independently verified performance records over a series of runs. In doing so, the Nevera, already the title holder for the fastest top speed for an electric vehicle, also now holds the title for most performance records broken on a single day. Talk about meta.

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Rimac Automobili achieved the impressive feat at Germany’s Automotive Testing Papenburg (ATP) facility. The facility operates one of the world’s largest independent automotive proving grounds. The expansive grounds include a 4-km-long stretch of tarmac, which Mate Rimac, CEO of Rimac Automobili, and his team put to good use. The track runs covered the Nevera’s blistering acceleration, speed, braking, and overall aerodynamic capabilities.

One of the benchmark records, the zero-to-249-mph-to-zero (0-400-km/h-0) run, was knocked off in 29.93 seconds. That is over a second shaved off the previous record, 31.49 seconds, set by the Koenigsegg Regera in 2019. The Rimac Nevera, already one of the fastest-accelerating cars on the planet, even outperformed its own official specifications, sprinting from zero to 60 mph (06 km/h) in 1.74 seconds (compared with its official 1.85-second time).

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All the records were independently verified by officials from Dewesoft and Racelogic, two leading names in data-logging and GPS positioning. Demonstrating the reliability of its powertrain, the Nevera smashed these records operating at full throttle conditions over several consecutive runs without any significant loss of performance. What’s more, the hypercar ran on road-legal Michelin Cup 2 R tires on a non-prepped asphalt surface. It’s scary to think that even more performance could have been unlocked under more ideal conditions, or with race slicks.

To mark the momentous occasion, the carmaker’s design team created a special livery for the record-breaking Nevera. The green-and-black theme was inspired by the Rimac BMW e-M3, the brainchild of Mate Rimac and the car that inspired Mate to create Rimac Automobili. In 2011, the e-M3 put Mate Rimac on the big stage after it also set a number of Guinness- and FIA-approved all-electric speed records.