Rimac’s All-Electric Nevera R Just Set a New 249 MPH World Record

The title of world’s fastest-accelerating production car is one of the last automotive speed records that is still interesting, in part because the record keeps getting quicker, and not incrementally, but by leaps and bounds. On Wednesday, Rimac snagged the title once again, smashing Koenigsegg‘s zero-to-249-mph-to-zero record by over two seconds, which is an eternity. It will probably be only a matter of time before Koenigsegg responds.

Rimac said its Nevera R got up to 249 mph and back to zero again in 25.79 seconds, to be precise, beating Koenigsegg’s time of 27.83 seconds, which it set in a Jesko Absolut last year. Koenigsegg had also set a then-world-record time of 28.81 seconds in 2023, when it beat out, you guessed it, a Rimac Nevera.

The Nevera R that grabbed the title got some performance upgrades, including a new fixed rear wing, a bigger diffuser, better Michelin tires, and a new torque vectoring system to optimize those tires. Downforce is up by 15 percent, Rimac says. The 2,107 horsepower Nevera R—the power is made with four electric motors—also goes from zero to 60 mph in 1.66 seconds.

A few other numbers: The Nevera R gets to 100 mph in 2.96 seconds and to 200 mph in 9.25 seconds, It’s also do a quarter-mile in 7.90 seconds. As a driver, not only will you feel speed like that, it will probably also hurt.

“When we first introduced Nevera, it almost seemed like the pinnacle of hypercar performance had been reached. In a single generation, we had created a performance jump that previously would have taken decades,” Mate Rimac, founder of Rimac, said in a statement. “But now, through relentless innovation, Nevera R goes even faster, while still maintaining much of the comfort and practicality that makes the Nevera a real, usable daily car.”

The Nevera R starts at around $2.7 million, and will be limited to just 40 examples. The car also set an EV top speed record, going 268 mph. Rimac says all the records were verified by an independent firm. That sounds like a pretty good daily driver, then, as Mate Rimac says, but only for complete nuts.

Click here for more photos of the record-setting Rimac Nevera R.

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