The Rimac Group is an automaker and automotive know-how firm primarily based in Zagreb, Croatia, which is thought for its 800-volt electrical automobile structure that allows EVs to run extra effectively and cost in a short time. After coming into vital partnerships with Porsche and Hyundai, Rimac has simply introduced one other enterprise with a big-name automotive model, BMW. It additionally owns Bugatti now.
In keeping with the official announcement, it is a long-term strategic dedication between BMW and Rimac Expertise (the engineering arm of the corporate that provides powertrains for third-party EVs) to “create progressive options for the high-voltage batteries in future chosen automobile initiatives.”
Rimac is thought for its 800-volt structure and the mighty Nevera
Rimac not solely equipped the 800-volt know-how utilized in Porsche and Hyundai-Kia EVs, but it surely additionally created the world’s first electrical hypercar, the monstrous Nevera with over 1,900 horsepower.
This appears like BMW won’t be straight equipped by Rimac, however it should use the latter’s know-how to develop its personal next-gen EV batteries. Regardless that we all know the upcoming vary of Neue Klasse fashions will function an 800-volt structure, we doubt these new batteries developed with Rimac’s assist will likely be what powers the brand new line of BMW EVs, the primary of which ought to debut earlier than the tip of 2024.
On the finish of its press launch saying the partnership, BMW makes it clear that its sixth-generation eDrive know-how (that may energy Neue Klasse fashions) was developed individually and with out enter from Rimac. Nonetheless, that’s to not say Neue Klasse fashions can’t obtain improved batteries co-engineered with Rimac as a part of an replace after they’re launched.
BMW says it should “launch extra particulars about what type the strategic tie-up will take, in addition to its scope and content material, at a later stage.” The very same phrase is used within the press launch revealed by Rimac, which doesn’t reveal any extra data.
The founder and CEO of Rimac, Mate Rimac, notes that this vital partnership with BMW is “a transparent signal of the transition of Rimac Expertise from area of interest high-performance provider to high-volume manufacturing functionality. With the relentless development of our enterprise, together with the opening of Rimac Campus, we’re now able to ship large-scale initiatives for the main manufacturers within the automotive business.”
However even when particulars are at the moment very restricted, this collaboration is intriguing. Let’s not overlook that Rimac makes the world’s quickest-accelerating road-legal automotive, the bonkers-quick Nevera, a automobile that’s fairly related in philosophy to what BMW would make have been it to launch an electrical hypercar. Rimac says that is “the most important and most bold undertaking the corporate has undertaken so far,” and it’s already concerned in some fairly huge initiatives, so the BMW-Rimac partnership is unquestionably very thrilling information.