Rimacs future lies in ground-breaking tech, rather than EVs alone | KLRT [Video]

Rimac may be best known as a supplier of leading electric vehicle technology, as well as the maker of the Nevera electric hypercar, though that isn’t where the company’s future exclusively lies, judging by recent comments made by CEO and founder Mate Rimac.

Speaking during this week’s Financial Times Future of the Car conference in London, Rimac said electric vehicles have started to lose their cool factor as governments attempt to mandate the technology, and this has pushed buyers, especially in the high-end segment, to favor cars with gas engines, Autocar reported.

“The regulators and some OEMs push it so much that the narrative has changed,” he is quoted as saying. “They’re pushing stuff on us that we don’t want, so people get a little bit repulsed by it, this whole forced application.”

Rimac, who is also chief of Bugatti Rimac, which is responsible for hypercars from the Bugatti and Rimac brands, said buyers …