Rimac is reportedly ending its Nevera hypercar after building only 71 of a planned 190

Mate Rimac recorded an Instagram video in which the Croatian founder said his company’s first production car “did its job,” and the clip is being read as the funeral notice for the Nevera. By the end of 2026, 71 of them will have left the factory in Croatia, a long way short of the run Rimac once laid out for its electric hypercar.

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The final ten cars, all Nevera R versions, were still in production when Motor1 and Automotive Addicts reported the story on Nov. 11, and they are due with their owners by the end of this year. The video itself had already been written up in early October by the Dutch site Autoblog.nl, so the ending has been signaled for weeks.

71 cars against a planned 190

The arithmetic comes from Car and Driver’s report, which cites the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. That account says 51 of a planned 150 base-model Neveras and 20 of a planned 40 Nevera Rs were built, which adds up to 71 of 190. The magazine’s framing is that production is ending at the close of 2026, well short of the plan.

Not every outlet uses the same denominator. Motor1, working from Mate Rimac’s video, counts 71 cars since deliveries began in 2022 and notes that 150 examples were planned when the car was revealed in 2018; it makes no mention of a 190 target. The Dutch site Autoblog.nl reports 50 standard cars plus 20 Nevera Rs and also cites an original goal of 150. The sources agree on the total of 71 and on the end of this year, and differ only on whether the 40 Nevera Rs belong in the plan.

Motor1 said it had asked Rimac for comment and had not published a reply. As of Nov. 13, no formal company statement beyond the founder’s video appears in the coverage reviewed, which is why the reports are best read as reported rather than confirmed by a Rimac press release.

The timeline explains why the shortfall is visible. The Nevera was revealed in 2018 with 150 examples in mind, and deliveries began in 2022, so the run took about four years to reach a total that is less than half of the combined 190-car plan Car and Driver describes. Motor1 notes the 71 figure already counts the ten Nevera Rs still being built, so no further cars are queued beyond those.

What Mate Rimac said in the video

According to Motor1, Rimac called the Nevera “the most sold electric hypercar in the world” and said that without it, “there wouldn’t be the Tourbillon today; there wouldn’t be this factory.” The Tourbillon is the Bugatti hypercar developed through Bugatti Rimac, the 2021 joint venture in which Rimac holds a major stake. It pairs a naturally aspirated 8.3-liter V16 with three electric motors for about 1,800 horsepower.

Automotive Addicts paraphrases the founder as arguing that the Nevera met its main goal: proving that Rimac could be taken seriously as a builder of advanced electric powertrains. That reading matches how the group is organized, since Rimac Technology supplies batteries, motors and other components to outside carmakers, and Verne, the robotaxi service unveiled in 2024, began operating earlier this year.

Each line of the Rimac group is built to a different purpose, which is the argument the founder makes. The Nevera carried the brand, Rimac Technology sells parts to others, and the Tourbillon shows what the Bugatti Rimac partnership can build. The coverage reviewed does not say what will replace the Nevera on the assembly line, or what happens to the staff who built it.

The car that is ending: 1,914 horsepower and a hypercar price

The Nevera reached customers after Rimac began production of the electric hypercar and delivered the first car to Nico Rosberg. Automotive Addicts lists its quoted performance at 1,914 horsepower from four motors, 0 to 60 mph in 1.85 seconds and a 258 mph top speed, while the Nevera R makes 2,107 horsepower and reaches 60 mph in 1.74 seconds.

Autoblog.nl puts the price at about 3 million euros and counts three Nevera registrations in the Netherlands, two of them added this year. Its verdict on the sales record is mixed: a flop against the original target of 150, though 71 cars is not bad at all for a hypercar from a small Croatian manufacturer.

The reasons for the shortfall are less settled than the numbers. Automotive Addicts attributes the weak demand to buyers at this price level who prize the sound, emotion and mechanical character of combustion hypercars, qualities it says electric cars struggle to match. That is the outlet’s interpretation, not a statement from Rimac, and the founder’s own video frames the car as a success rather than a miss.

What remains unanswered is whether Rimac plans a successor. Neither Motor1 nor Automotive Addicts describes one, and the Car and Driver report presents the end of Nevera production as an ending rather than a pause.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.