{"id":15870,"date":"2022-02-20T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2022-02-20T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T17:03:44","slug":"rimac-nevera-9-cars-destroyed-in-crash-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15870","title":{"rendered":"Rimac Nevera crash tests: Nine 1,914-hp supercars destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homologating a car to meet the various safety rules for various markets is a time-consuming and very expensive proposition. For the Rimac Nevera, a 1,914-horsepower electric supercar<\/a>, that process has taken four years, a company-issued release says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Billed as the fastest-accelerating car<\/a> in the world, the Nevera goes 0-to-60 in just 1.85 seconds and claims a top speed of 258 mph. It stickers at \u20ac2<\/a> million ($2.27 million), so its crash testing<\/a> was not to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n

Rimac says that Nevera prototypes were put through the ringer with 45 physical crash tests that destroyed nine examples. If you’re keeping track, that’s over $20 million in smashed Rimacs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fortunately, for the many more passive safety tests, computer simulations could be used instead. Rimac says engineers conducted thousands of digital trials using High Performance Cluster computers<\/a> capable of extremely detailed simulations. A physical test might take just 80 milliseconds, Rimac says, but a single HPCC simulations could take as long as 20 hours of processing time.<\/p>\n