Porsche Now Owns A Piece Of Rimac

Stuttgart has taken a 10 per cent stake in the Croatian electric hypercar company, with the hope of creating a "development partnership"
Porsche Now Owns A Piece Of Rimac

With the motoring industry changing at a rapid pace, it’s all the rage to use joint ventures to soften the blow of R&D costs. BMW and Toyota’s sports car collaboration is a prominent example, and yesterday it was announced that Ford and VW would be forming a “strategic alliance” to develop a “range of commercial vehicles” and “much more.”

Now, Porsche is getting in on the act. It’s already working with multiple manufacturers including Mercedes and Ford to create a new rapid charging network, but to bolster the electric car side of proceedings a little further, Stuttgart has taken a 10 per cent stake in Croatian hypercar company Rimac.

Lutz Meschke, Porsche’s Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and Member of the Executive Board for Finance and IT (impressively long job title, no?), has this to say about the tie-up: “We feel that Rimac’s ideas and approaches are extremely promising, which is why we hope to enter into close collaboration with the company in the form of a development partnership.”

Porsche Now Owns A Piece Of Rimac

This almost certainly means that Rimac-developed tech will end up on future Porsche electric vehicles like the Taycan. You can hardly blame Stuttgart: the setup of the incoming C_Two is astonishing, with a powertrain that consists of a quartet of electric motors with independent gearboxes and carbon clutches. In total, the system develops 1888bhp.

Commenting on the news, company CEO Mate Rimac said: “This partnership now is an important step for Rimac on our way to become a component and system supplier of choice for the industry in electrification, connectivity and the exciting field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.”

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Comments

Anonymous

Rimac C Two GT3 RS.
OR:
Porsche revives the 911 GT1 as an Electric supercar.
Both would be awesome tho…

06/21/2018 - 08:07 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Maybe they will bring back the 911 gt1 for the new class that will replace lmp1 and make it hybrid

06/21/2018 - 08:18 |
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Andrew 30

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

A Rimac C Two GT3 RS would catch on fire twice as fast 😂 Both have a tendency to catch fire no?

06/22/2018 - 07:58 |
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luke c

This is probably one of the smartest moves I’ve seen from Porsche in awhile

06/21/2018 - 08:18 |
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CannedRex24

In reply to by luke c

Uhmmm a lot of their options in the past 5 years have been smart moves lol

06/21/2018 - 10:42 |
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VTEC didn’t kick in

Richard Hammond testing out a new Porsche, 2019 (colourized)

06/21/2018 - 08:27 |
117 | 4

Hammond, the type of guy to crash so many times, yet still live and have courage to drive cars on the limit.

He really is special, isn’t he

06/21/2018 - 09:44 |
49 | 1

Richard is just a Max who never learnt to drive

06/21/2018 - 10:12 |
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He didnt crash in a 2005 Porsche Carrera gt

06/21/2018 - 14:40 |
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The guy’s special, don’t upset him!

06/22/2018 - 00:16 |
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RIP Richard Hammond died in a Carrera GT and buried alongside Paul Walker

06/28/2018 - 13:38 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for the tag❤

06/21/2018 - 09:43 |
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Anonymous

Smart move!

06/21/2018 - 08:33 |
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German Perfectionist

“Porsche now owns a piece of Rimac” - So does Richard Hammond…

06/21/2018 - 08:34 |
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Thats a titanium screw reconstructive Shoulder Surgery,
I had this procedure done in Feb…

06/21/2018 - 11:18 |
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Tomislav Celić

So, we will get Rimac parts in a Porsche Taycan

And Porsche will help Rimac with production, so they don’t end up like Tesla.

IT’S A WIN, WIN SCENARIO

06/21/2018 - 09:43 |
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Ben Ireland

Damn the more I look at that Rimac the more I like the way it looks, the silhouette is so cool

06/21/2018 - 09:56 |
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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

Not gonna lie, I’m not the biggest fan of Rimac, but this is gonna be good

06/21/2018 - 12:08 |
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Not arguing or anything, but why aren’t you a fan of Rimac?

06/26/2018 - 02:25 |
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Griffin Mackenzie

Hold up

06/21/2018 - 15:34 |
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