23-year old Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac unveiled the Concept_One electric supercar at the Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday – a 1,099 horsepower machine that can go a little under 600 km per charge, and can get over 300 km/h on a stretch. Is that enough car numbers? I’m not great at car numbers. Take a look at the thing though, it’s sexy.
The car is apparently a ‘blown up’ version of the BMW E30 used for circuit racing – that went through about five stages of reinvention until Rimac decided to just build his own engine. The electric thing is mostly incidental – as Rimac said, in an interview with WIRED:
“We believe that electric motors are simply better machines compared to internal combustion engines. We are not building electric cars ‘to save the planet’ with low CO2 emissions — we are aware of the fact that 10-15 cars a year (which is our annual target production) won’t make any difference in terms of emissions.…
Our target is to raise the bar for sports/supercars in terms of driving dynamics with our All Wheel Torque Vectoring System. I think that the people will look at electric cars from a different angle when they see our car performing.”
Because ‘saving the planet’ is for chumps, that’s why.
[Source: WIRED]
