Rimac engineer says 0-60 ‘below one second’ is possible
Monterey Automotive Week encourages every kind of questions which can be answered with outrageous numbers. How a lot is the Pebble Seaside garden value? What number of metric tons of palm fronds had been sacrificed to make the toquilla straw that make the numberless Panama hats? And how briskly can a quick automotive go? The Drive spoke to Rimac Nevera Chief Program Engineer Matija Renić at The Quail about that final query, questioning what Renić believes is feasible for a 0-60 time. His reply: “Under one second.” There aren’t many issues people can full in lower than a second apart from say three-word sentences like “Under one second.” The thought of being at relaxation as one’s lips purse for the “B,” and touring 60 miles per hour by the point the tongue comes off higher alveolar ridge to complete the “d” is, frankly, absurd.
Regrettably, both The Drive did not probe Renić as to what applied sciences will make the feat doable, or it determined to not repeat Renić’s phrases. All we now have is the oracular pronouncement and little strategy to conceive of the way it might occur, together with a lot of questions on tires.
See, folks like Engineering Defined who do math for a dwelling have figured that, for a avenue automobile on avenue tires on a daily avenue, about 2.05 seconds is the decrease restrict of the stoplight drag. When the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid ripped off a 1.85-second teleport to 60 mph for Motor Development, that was on “the tremendous sticky VHT-coated floor of Auto Membership Famoso Raceway.” On a non-prepped floor, Motor Development acquired that all the way down to 2.28 seconds, Automotive and Driver pruned it to 2.1 seconds. However C/D bettered the Tesla’s time in a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, hitting 0-60 in 2.0 seconds flat.
Rimac claims the Nevera will hit 60 miles per hour in 1.85 seconds, a time additionally achieved on a prepped drag strip, however we have not seen instrumented proof of that but. Amongst YouTube movies of the Nevera working the quarter mile, one devoted thrill seeker pulled off a 2.13-second rip to 60 mph.
Talking of drag strips, high gas dragsters are the go-to monsters for hitting 60 miles per hour in below one second, doing the deed in roughly 0.7 to 0.9 seconds. In 2019, Jalopnik tried to determine the G forces concerned in such dashes, the mathematics concluding that getting from zero to 60 in 0.86 seconds put a 5.3-G pressure on the physique. Having that potential in your avenue automotive can be like having your individual curler coaster, and what we think about can be a monumental invoice for tires. Till we see such issues doable for the common (fairly rich) driver, we’ll be paying even nearer consideration to what what Rimac has coming.
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