The world's fastest EV

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Mate Rimac tells us how he designed and now produces the world's fastest electric car.

He started out converting petrol racing cars to run on electricity and proving those vehicles could achieve top speeds. Mate Rimac then built a business to produce the car from scratch, with little money and no experience.

His company is now valued at more than 2 billion dollars after securing investment last year from Porsche. He's also managed to build a new car manufacturing industry in Croatia.

Presenter/producer: Theo Leggett

(Photo: Mate Rimac leaning against a blue electric car in a showroom. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	An original audio drama series from the BBC World Service,
0:05.0	Fukushima tells the story of the 2011 disaster
0:08.5	at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
0:12.6	We lose the Daiichi plant.
0:14.5	Then we lose Japan as we know it.
0:17.1	Listen to the series now by searching for Fukushima,
0:20.1	wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:28.0	Today on Business Daily, I'll be speaking to the man behind an electric hypercar that goes like the wind and leaves conventional machines choking on its dust.
0:43.9	60. like the wind and leaves conventional machines choking on its dust. Born in Bosnia, Matyrimatz became a refugee in Germany, before settling in Croatia.
0:54.0	His childhood was not a happy one.
0:56.4	I had a hard time.
0:57.3	I was also quite bullied, to be honest,
0:59.8	because I didn't speak the language well.
1:01.2	And I spoke like a posting grandmother, you know.
1:04.4	So kids can be cruel sometimes.
1:06.7	Yet he went on to found an international business
1:09.4	that sells some of the most remarkable cars on the planet.
1:13.0	So how and why did he do it?
1:15.4	I love cars, loved cars all my life.
1:18.2	I was fascinated all my life with cars.
1:20.3	So I'm a car guy and basically an entrepreneur.
1:25.6	Mate Riematz joins me, Theo Leggett,
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