The Rimac Nevera R recently smashed over 20 records as the world’s fastest electric car ever made, and its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed has now given one person the chance to ride shotgun.
As a branch of Bugatti, having joined forces in 2021, the fully-electric brand has a lot to live up to.
But rolling into the tire tracks of its new relations, the Veyron, Chiron Super Sport, and Mistral, the Rimac Nevera R hasn’t wasted any time in making equally reputable claims as the fastest electric car in the world.
Now, one of the very few people who have been in the cockpit of the monstrous EV has given their account.
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Rimac Nevera R – the fastest electric car in the world
With over 2,100hp that jolts through the EV at a feather’s touch on the throttle, the Rimac Nevera R is an otherworldly beast.
Just recently, the track-focused road-legal beast smashed an abundance of records in one go, hitting its top speed – 289mph – and coming to a complete stop in a 0-289-0mph test in just 25 seconds.
The only accolade it doesn’t hold is the fastest 0-60mph time in an EV – that belongs to the McMurtry Spéirling.
But this journey sped into the top spot for the highest speed ever achieved by an electric car, as well as record times in quarter-mile, mile, and a whopping 20 more Guinness World Records.
The record-setting drive was even filmed, which you can see at the top of the page.
But, a month later, one man sat in the passenger seat of the record-breaking Nevera R and documented the moment that the fastest electric car in the world ‘reorganized his relationship with physics.’
What it’s like riding shotgun in the Nevera R
Featuring at Goodwood, the Rimac Nevera R was just one of many showstopping supercars on display.
Journalist Sean Evans, of Robb Report, played passenger to Bugatti Rimac Chief Test and Development Driver Miro Zrnčević as the hypercar handled the iconic hill climb.
In his review, Evans claimed that the acceleration and speed were ‘ungodly’.
“We’re on a stretch of the hill climb that takes us past all the major grandstands and under the pedestrian bridge.
“It’s straight enough for Zrnčević to keep his foot in it, and the full onslaught of those 2,107 horses is nothing short of savage,” he said.
“The grandstands blur, and slight tunnel vision creeps in. My stomach processes the forces imparted upon it; these sensations, while intense, are intoxicating.
“I have no idea how fast we’re going, but it feels ungodly quick with zero margin for error. We barely slow down.”
The Rimac Nevera R completed the 1.6-mile course in 50 seconds, and was only pushing at around 70 percent effort, to make sure the one-of-40 hypercars didn’t go off-course in front of 11 million annual viewers.
But even at 70 percent, the fastest electric car in the world was enough to leave the journalist ‘cackling maniacally’.
And we’re just a tiny bit jealous.
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