Rimac Automobili 2012For many people, automotive companies are owned by their well-established. Car design was considered to only be made by an experienced person. But it was broken by Mate Rimac, a 23-year-old boy who bravely set up a sports car company as well as designing his own car to be produced by the company.
Rimac is a young man from Croatia who recently founded a company which specialized in producing sports cars named Rimac Automobili in an industrial area near Zagreb, the Croatian capital.
"Croatia does not have the automotive industry. But that will change," believes Rimac quotes from the New York Times, Thursday (09/08/2011).
The new cars that will be born by the company this young man's car is a sports car concept called the Concept One. The car will be officially next week at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
"This is an electric super car," said Mr. Rimac. "This car could produce 1088 horsepower, torque of 3800 newton-meters and is able to run far to more than 300 kilometers per hour," he explained, saying that currently limit the top speed they will advance to maintain security.
But the claim is widely questioned the observer of the automotive industry. For strength and ability is quite remarkable even for a car with an internal combustion engine that is still conventional. Especially for an electric car that technology has not been developed, the claim is of course a lot of questions.
And when asked if Rimac Automobili've tested this car to 300 km / h, Rimac said only that all the components in this car has been tested in a prototype program is closed. Currently Rimac Concept One provides a teaser before the car was officially disclosed a few more days.
Furthermore, this young man smoothly explained that Concept One is supported by four independent electric motors capable of generating 800 kilowatts of total power, according to which these factors are used to calculate the force that is able to be born Concept One.
In addition, the super car Croatian origin is thought to be able to walk as far as 366 miles (589 km) with just a single charge. The figure beat the Tesla Model S electric sedan Signature series which is predicted to travel up to 300 miles (482.8 km) with just a single charge.
His body was backed aluminum chassis with a body of carbon fiber was directly able to make this car becomes lighter. Weight is approximately 1646.5 kg car.
And to anticipate demand, Rimac said that she will soon build 88 units of cars and preorder was made at a price that is cheaper than gasoline-engine super car like the Pagani, Koenigsegg and Bugatti.
To target consumers, Rimac target will hook the royal family in the Middle East is rich as a buyer of this car.
