Croatia's headline-grabbing electric hypercar is heading for the end of the line. Mate Rimac has confirmed that production of the Nevera will finish before the end of 2026, closing out an eight-year run for the most ambitious car project the country has seen.
The numbers tell an interesting story. Rimac originally aimed to build 150 standard Neveras, but only 51 were completed, plus 20 units of the hotter Nevera R. That makes 71 cars in total — each one assembled at the company's facilities near Zagreb and priced around €2 million, with the Nevera R commanding roughly €300,000 more.
The car first appeared in 2017 as the C_Two concept at the Geneva Motor Show, then picked up its production name three years later. It's called Nevera after the fierce Mediterranean storm that sweeps across the Croatian Adriatic — a fitting choice for a machine with four electric motors producing close to 2,000 horsepower and a zero-to-100 km/h sprint under two seconds.
The Nevera didn't just talk fast. The standard model set 23 world records in a single day, and the Nevera R added 24 more on top, with a reported top speed beyond 431 km/h. Fame followed: Will Smith and former F1 champion Nico Rosberg were among the high-profile names drawn to it.
Even though output fell well short of plan, Rimac frames the project as a success that made everything else possible — the company's factory complex, its partnerships, and its reputation as a serious engineering house. Whether a direct successor follows is still unknown.
For travellers, this is less about the car itself and more about what it says about Croatia. Beyond the beaches of Dalmatia and the walls of Dubrovnik, the country has quietly built a niche as a home for cutting-edge technology, with Rimac's campus near Zagreb becoming a point of pride and a symbol of modern Croatian identity alongside traditional draws like Istrian truffles and Plitvice Lakes. Anyone visiting Zagreb in the coming years will find a city increasingly happy to trade on that tech cred, and a national car industry story that started in a garage and ended up breaking world records.
Reported by Croatia Week.
