Rimac Concept_One

[Eraser]

Ever heard of the Rimac Concept One? It's an electric supercar designed by Croatian car company Rimac. The thing has a total output of 1088 hp, accelerates from 0 - 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds, a (limited) top speed of 304km/h, a range of 600km and a pricetag of $980,000 USD. Only 88 will be made, but don't worry, so far they've only sold one of them (as far as they made public).



Here's a promo video with computer renders:


Here's a video showing the thing in real life. In it, they explain a bit about "torque vectoring", which sounds pretty cool.

[xer0s]

Why don't companies like this focus their talents on making an affordable electric car for the masses?

[MKJ]

oil.

[Eraser]

Why don't companies like this focus their talents on making an affordable electric car for the masses?

There's already companies doing that.
A small, unknown company like this would probably never recoup the costs from the R&D (and subsequently, the production process) simply because no one knows about them and they can't shift enough units to make up for the investment. Even if many people wanted their cars, they don't have the production volume to keep up with that. So the other thing you can do is build an exotic car for which you can ask an immense amount of money, so that you need to sell only 80-odd-something cars to make some real money out of it.

[bitWISE]

Why don't companies like this focus their talents on making an affordable electric car for the masses?

Get your capital by pandering to the ultra rich and then you have the money and knowledge base to do R&D into a mass production car. Tesla's next model is supposed to be in the 30s.

[Psyche911]

Why don't companies like this focus their talents on making an affordable electric car for the masses?

There's already companies doing that.
A small, unknown company like this would probably never recoup the costs from the R&D (and subsequently, the production process) simply because no one knows about them and they can't shift enough units to make up for the investment. Even if many people wanted their cars, they don't have the production volume to keep up with that. So the other thing you can do is build an exotic car for which you can ask an immense amount of money, so that you need to sell only 80-odd-something cars to make some real money out of it.

Supercars aren't always profitable. The Bugatti Veyron sells for about half of the production cost. They lose over $2M on each car.

[MKJ]

Probably easily compensated by the rise in stocks since they released the veyron.

[Whiskey 7]

Supercars aren't always profitable. The Bugatti Veyron sells for about half of the production cost. They lose over $2M on each car.

Yes I have heard that before and still think it is weird

[GONNAFISTYA]

Nice car. It has a familiar GT40 shape about it.

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[Don Carlos]

Looks like a squashed VW Scirocco

[mrd]

Pretty neat. Almost 1100HP from electric motors... impressive stuff. Would like to say I could afford one.