Rimac will stop building the Nevera, its all-electric hypercar, by the end of 2026, with 71 cars produced. That is well under half the number the Croatian company once planned. Founder and chief executive Mate Rimac disclosed the total in a video posted to Instagram this week. He argued that the car had served its purpose.
The final tally is 51 standard Neveras and 20 of the more powerful Nevera R, according to figures reported by Motor1 and electrive. Rimac set out to build 150 standard cars, and later capped the Nevera R at 40. Against that combined target of 190, the run will finish at about 37 per cent. The shortfall reflects a wider shift. The wealthiest car buyers have moved back towards combustion engines, and Rimac has steered its own business towards batteries, components and Bugatti.
What Mate Rimac said
Mate Rimac did not present the outcome as a setback. "I think it is still a pretty good achievement," he said in the video, as transcribed by Motor1. "It's the most sold electric hypercar in the world."
He tied the car directly to the company's later ventures. "And without that, there wouldn't be the Tourbillon today; there wouldn't be this factory," he said. "So, it did its job." The Tourbillon is the Bugatti hypercar developed under Bugatti Rimac, the joint venture formed in 2021.
The claim that the Nevera is the best-selling car of its type comes from the company itself. Direct rivals are also few. The closest relative, the Pininfarina Battista, is itself built on the Nevera's underpinnings, according to Carscoops.
How the numbers stack up
Ten of the 20 Nevera Rs belong to a Founder's Edition, which customers specified together with Mate Rimac. electrive reports that these cars have been delivered since January 2026. The other ten are still being built and are due to reach owners before the end of the year, Motor1 reports.
The standard Nevera cost around €2m, according to Croatia Week, with the Nevera R priced roughly €300,000 higher. The R arrived in August 2024 with 2,078bhp, up from 1,888bhp in the original car. Rimac used it to claim 24 performance records in a single day, Carscoops reports. They included a top speed of 431.45km/h (268.2mph), which Carscoops says has since been beaten by BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme.
The weak demand is not new. In May 2024, Mate Rimac told the Financial Times Future of the Car conference in London that just over 50 Neveras had been sold, against the plan for 150. That remark was reported by Autocar and cited by Canada's The Car Guide and Australia's CarExpert.
Set beside this week's figure of 51 standard cars, the 2024 number suggests the base model's order book barely moved after that point. On that reading, the Nevera R, launched three months later, accounted for almost all of the car's later sales. electrive separately reports that Nevera demand began to fall from mid-2024.
Rimac founder Mate Rimac speaking at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. Photo: El monty / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Why buyers moved on
The Nevera was conceived when electric power looked like the future of the fastest cars. It was first shown as the C_Two concept in 2018, and deliveries began in 2022. "We started to develop Nevera in 2016-2017 when electric was cool," Mate Rimac said at the 2024 conference, as quoted by Autocar.
His argument then was that buyers at the top of the market want to stand apart as electric cars become mainstream. He likened an electric car to a smartwatch: more capable than a mechanical watch, but without the same prestige. As he put it, "nobody would pay $200,000 for an Apple Watch".
Rimac's own product decisions follow that view. The Nevera's technology was once expected to underpin an all-electric successor to the Bugatti Chiron. Instead, the Tourbillon combines an 8.3-litre naturally aspirated V16, developed with Cosworth, with three electric motors. Motor1 puts its combined output at 1,800hp. electrive reports that the Tourbillon is already sold out.
Where Rimac goes from here
The Nevera is Rimac Automobili's only model, and no direct successor has been announced. Croatia Week reports that it remains unclear whether one will be developed. In 2024, The Car Guide reported that Rimac did not plan a second model and would instead use its battery expertise through partnerships.
The wider group now earns its keep elsewhere. Rimac Technology develops and supplies electric-car components, including a battery system for BMW. According to electrive, a new Rimac Campus in Zagreb opened in early 2026 to produce high-voltage battery systems. Verne, the group's robotaxi business, began commercial autonomous operations in Zagreb in spring 2026.
Ownership has also changed. Porsche completed the sale of its stakes in Rimac Group and Bugatti Rimac on 9 September 2026, electrive reported. The buyer was a consortium led by the investor HOF Capital, and Porsche received about €1bn.
The figures released this week do not break down deliveries by country, so it is not clear how many Neveras are in the UK. Motor1 said it had asked Rimac for further details.
The next markers are the delivery of the last ten Nevera Rs, due by 31 December, and any word on whether Rimac Automobili will build another car under its own name. For now, the Bugatti Tourbillon and the battery business carry the group's ambitions.
Featured image: Rimac - Nevera 01 by Miroslav.vajdic, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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