Acceleration times, especially in the hypercar segment, are insane. You can easily reach 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) from rest in about two seconds on some production vehicles. This is not enough, some might say, and we are pleased to report the limit in terms of acceleration has not been reached. At least according to an engineer from Rimac.
Rimac is a Croatian hypercar manufacturer with close ties to Bugatti. The Nevera, the company’s newest and greatest product, can safely sprint to 60 mph (96 kph) in 1.85 seconds but one of Rimac’s top engineers believes the production car can accelerate in less than a second.
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When Drive asked Matija Renic, Chief Program Engineer of Rimac Nevera, whether acceleration from 0 to 60 was possible in one second or less, he simply replied: “In under one second.” We can’t explain how fast it really is – theory says that one second is exactly “the duration of 9,192,631,770 radiation periods that correspond to the transition between the two hypersmooth states of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.” If you allow us to put that number into perspective, the fastest human sprinter only runs 10 meters in one second at full speed.
Mind you, we are talking about production vehicles here. A dedicated drag race car can do this on a slippery track but it seems traction on the road will be the deciding factor. The Nevera electric hypercar comes very close to achieving this stunning feat, but Renic says it wasn’t built with just acceleration in mind. It’s much more than that.
“The car was really fast, to be honest,” said Renic Drive. “Numbers here and there, we are very proud of them, but the car is more than that. This isn’t a one trick pony, it’s not a dragster you take to the drag strip and hit the best times, and that’s it. This car is actually very, very complex, showing you what the future of automotive technology can do. And also very useful and friendly from a user point of view.”
