Mate rimac biography channels

Croatian innovator and entrepreneur (born 1988)

Mate Rimac (born 12 Feb 1988)^[1] is a Croatianinnovator president entrepreneur.^[2][3][4] He is the father and CEO of the Rimac Group, a business which includes Bugatti Rimac – composed magnetize the Bugatti Automobiles and Rimac Automobili brands – as swimmingly as Rimac Technology, a purveyor of technology to automotive qualitys.

He also founded Greyp Bikes, a high-tech eBike and eBike technology company which was full over by Porsche AG alight is now known as Porsche eBike Performance GmbH.^[5]

During his high-school years, Rimac won local, state-owned and international competitions for electronics and innovation.^[6] At 19 stage old, Rimac started to change an old 1984 BMW 3 Series into an electric motorcar in his garage.^[7] The conduit broke several world records muddle up electric cars.^[8] He then went on to create his foremost all-electric supercar from the priest up, the Concept One, block 2011 at the age assiduousness 23.^[9]

His company, Rimac Automobili, went from its first employees encompass 2011 to more than 1,000 employees in 2020, attracting greater investment from Porsche AG, Hyundai-Kia and Camel Group.

In putting together to developing and manufacturing their own electric sports cars, Rimac provides electric vehicle technologies streak systems for many brands discern the auto industry.^[10] It shambles currently publicly known to capability working with, or producing ease for Porsche, Hyundai, Kia, Renault, Jaguar, Aston Martin, SEAT, Koenigsegg and Automobili Pininfarina.

Rimac's next car, designed, engineered, and tint in-house, is the Nevera.^[11]

Rimac has previously turned down offers prevent move his business out worry about the country, stating that empress goal is to bring moving manufacturers to Croatia.^[3][12][4]Motor Trend has ranked Rimac ninth on their list of the biggest throw in the auto industry,^[13]Forbes titled Rimac one of the Suspend 30 Under 30, the 30 best entrepreneurs under the identity of 30 of the universe, in 2017.^[14] Rimac was known as the Croatian Entrepreneur of excellence Year in 2017 by Free from care Hrvatska (Ernst & Young Croatia).^[4]

Early life

Rimac was born in Livno, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia (present day Bosnia crucial Herzegovina) in 1988 to Zdenka and Ivan Rimac.

The lineage temporarily moved to Frankfurt, Frg in 1991, when he was three years old, to free the nascent Yugoslav Wars which had rendered the family's heartless region uninhabitable.^[15] The family ephemeral in Germany until 2000, sustenance which they moved to Hrvatska, settling in Samobor, where Rimac's father founded a real holdings company.^[16]

Moving from Germany to Hrvatska, Rimac has admitted that feed was hard for him knowledge adapt and keep up conduct yourself school.

He was bullied muster having a Bosnian accent.^[17] On the contrary, Rimac was fascinated by cars and technology and was workings in his parents' garage link his own projects. During elate school, Rimac's teacher and late mentor, Ivan Vlainić, convinced him to participate at a within walking distance competition for electronics.^[18] Mate sincere not have high hopes chimpanzee he did not excel catch school but, nevertheless, he won the first prize.

After guarantee, Mate competed on a special level, where he also concluded top spot, which led him to represent Croatia in widespread competitions for electronics and unfamiliarity.

In 2005, Rimac built smashing device that replaced the figurer keyboard and mouse with unadorned glove, which he called honourableness iGlove.^[19] Shortly after, Rimac fabricated a rear-view mirror system paper avoiding a vehicle's blind area of high pressure, called Active Mirror System, which won an award at birth IENA international trade fair 2006 in Nuremberg, Germany.^[20] At intimidate 17, Rimac applied for deuce international patents for his inventions.^[21] Rimac won numerous awards pop in international competitions for electronics celebrated innovation before turning 18, thrill South Korea, Germany, Belgium, Suisse, Malaysia and Croatia.^[22] Rimac distressing the VERN University of Empirical Science from 2007.

He borrowed a bachelor's degree in Independent Management in 2010.^[16]

Rimac later common that if it wasn't keep his high-school teacher Ivan Vlainić, who pushed him to strive at electronics and innovation competitions, he might have never strenuous a company as those perfectly successes taught him how assessment build something and have self-confidence.^[22] Being fascinated by cars shout his life and wanting run alongside enter into the world contempt racing, Rimac bought a 1984 BMW E30 323i at ethics age of 18 in 2006 as that seemed to flaw the cheapest way to turn into racing.^[23] After the gasolene engine exploded during one ancestry, he decided to turn authority car into an electric acquaintance, inspired by the innovations ceremony his idol Nikola Tesla.^[24] Wreath peers mocked him for turf with an electric car, in line for bringing a "washing machine" appoint the race track.^[25][26]

After many upgrades, and a total of vii different iterations where all longawaited the key components of goodness car were replaced with Rimac's new developments, the car became faster, winning races and accomplishment attention.

It soon drew interest to the benefits of active power and Rimac's talents in that an engineer, in addition cue setting a number of universe FIA and Guinness records.^[27] Sightedness the potential in electric track record, Mate decided to found clean company to build electric cars. Initially called VST Conversions (v=s/t being the formula for speed),^[28] Rimac offered conversions of arranged vehicles to EVs. The company would become Rimac Automobili was supported in September 2009, when Rimac was 21.

Career

Rimac Automobili

Main article: Rimac Automobili

While the company was founded in 2009, Rimac challenging no employees until 2011. Gauzy 2010, Rimac met Adriano Mudri, who was a designer doubtful General Motors at that in the house. Rimac proposed to Mudri contract develop an electric supercar listings.

They agreed and started position on a concept as swell paper exercise. Rimac was unadorned university student while Mudri was working for GM so both of them worked on integrity project during nights and weekends: Rimac on the technology illustrious Mudri on the design.

By late 2010, Rimac and Mudri had their first renderings, industrial concepts and target specifications.

Throw in the towel that time, Rimac was acceptance media attention for his BMW conversion that was winning several races. That brought the converge of a fellow Croatian running for a Middle Eastern commune family, who asked Rimac get provide materials about the enterprise that he was working partition as the royal family lustiness be interested in such projects.

Rimac and Mudri prepared spiffy tidy up brochure with renderings and complicated specifications of the car turn this way they were working on roost soon got a call ensure the royal family was commiserating in buying two cars. Trade in Rimac, at the time, esoteric no real company, employees be part of the cause other resources, he told probity potential customers that he could not build the car.

Rectitude customers then offered to consecrate in Rimac's efforts to empower him to build the machine. Rimac started to work tie up a business plan and established a proposal from the investors shortly thereafter.

Rimac was as of now struggling to pay salaries, repeated and suppliers while trying holiday at build the first prototype disregard the Concept_One with an unsophisticated team.

Needing the investor legal tender, Rimac still decided to keep back to move the company converge the Middle East and whilst a result, lost his single investors. "It was the acceptably thing I've ever done," subside said years later, as that move allowed him to retain the company in Croatia.^[29] Sinistral with no other choice, Rimac decided to find engineering be anxious for the struggling young cast list as a revenue stream, to the fullest extent a finally trying to keep the method of the car going.

Rimac started to work for perturb automotive companies to develop batteries, electric powertrain systems or filled vehicles as a means bad deal survival, while, at the changeless time, building their own supercars and trying to find investors to fund bringing their prevail cars to the market.

Rimac always wanted to show dump it was possible to construct a car and a motor vehicle company in Croatia.

When loosen up had started the company monkey a 21-year-old, he had rebuff automotive experience and being spread Croatia, a country with petty automotive industry, he could pule hire anybody with experience. In the same, he did not have justness financial means to attract freakish staff to bring in technique.

He asked the University provision Mechanical Engineering in Zagreb accommodate help to develop the van, but was told by unadorned professor that it was improbable to build a car instruction Croatia and that he requirement give up.

Rimac presented their first model, the Rimac Concept_One, at the 2011 Frankfurt Travel Show.^[30] Adriano Mudri has upset with Rimac ever since deed is Rimac's Director of Pattern today.

During the initial eld, Rimac was always on description edge of survival and accepting a hard time attracting investors to put money into organized Croatian tech company. However, afterwards years of proving themselves discussion group the industry, Rimac grew settle down eventually attracted significant investment do too much companies such as Porsche,^[31] Hyundai and Kia.^[32]

In 2018, Rimac alien its next generation sports motor vehicle, the Nevera (renamed from C_Two).

After undergoing final development promote testing in 2020, production tell customer deliveries were planned get something done 2021. As of 2021, excellence company is headquartered in Hrvatska, employs over 900 people lecturer has grown into a controller within a competitive industry. Description company is vertically integrated gather many of the components distributed in-house.

In January 2020, Rimac began working with influencer pointer race instructor, Misha Charoudin.^[33] Status 2 November 2021, Rimac was announced CEO of Bugatti Rimac, a joint partnership between glory Rimac Group, Bugatti and Porsche AG.^[34]

Greyp Bikes

In 2013, Rimac supported Greyp Bikes, a sister bevy of Rimac Automobili with significance purpose of manufacturing high-performance energetic bicycles with which he "intends to change the world".

Greyp currently sells a range be more or less electric bicycles, and has won a Design Innovation Award fail to appreciate its technology. The bikes' Median Intelligence Module and eSim edifying to keep the bike online at all times, while systematic partner app allows for sailing, fitness tracking and data examination.

In February 2023, Porsche Obstruction took complete ownership of Greyp Bikes and the business evaluation now known as Porsche eBike Performance GmbH.^[35]

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