Rimac Verne Robotaxi: prices, availability, specs

The Rimac Group describes Verne—its caller autonomous ride-hailing service—as its “next intolerable thing.” First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electrical hypercar company successful Croatia, a state with nary past of carmaking. That went well. Porsche, Hyundai and Softbank each took stakes. The Volkswagen Group talented him a bulk involvement successful Bugatti successful instrumentality for entree to his propulsion tech successful aboriginal models.

Rimac Technology present supplies electrical drivetrains to Porsche, BMW and Aston Martin, among galore others, and it is processing advanced energy retention tech, too.

And present there's Verne, Mate's autonomous ride-hailing work launched contiguous successful Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Named aft French novelist and futurist Jules Verne, it goes unrecorded successful Zagreb archetypal successful 2026, followed by Manchester successful the UK. Agreements person been signed to bring the work to different 9 cities successful Europe and the Middle East, and Verne is successful talks to rotation retired to different 30 cities worldwide.

So tin this ambitious but fast-moving start-up from a tiny federation bash the near-impossible and get a robust robotaxi work successful cognition earlier astir of the different players successful this space—including Tesla, which reveals its ain robotaxi successful August?

Don't stake against it. Verne was founded by Mate and 2 of his closest colleagues and friends: Marko Pejković, present CEO of Verne, and Adriano Mudri, the decorator of Rimac Nevera hypercar and present main plan serviceman astatine Verne. The Rimac Group has a 55 per cent involvement successful Verne, with Saudi investors holding the rest.

The thought has been successful improvement since astatine slightest 2019. Verne already employs 280 staff, and astatine its planetary motorboat revealed a complete-looking ecosystem of app, car and “mothership” buildings, to which the vehicles volition instrumentality to beryllium charged and cleaned.