Bugatti boss joins BMW on electric

It all started with converting a 1984 BMW 3 Series E30 to electric. alone. In his garage. 14 years after this early restoration, he directly joined BMW on the development of electric vehicles. Is this not the final realization for Mate Rimac?

It is true that everything seems to be successful for the Croatian businessman, who founded an unknown car brand, but who is also the CEO of Bugatti (of Bugatti Rimac more precisely) since 2021, and is also associated with Porsche (which owns 20% of the Rimac Group)… A good show that, little known, also “hides” behind the activities directly related to the development of batteries and electric motors. That’s Rimac Technology. And it is around this body that the BMW Group has just joined for what is becoming its “most important and most ambitious” project.

Rimac batteries in BMWs

Headquartered in Croatia, Zagreb, Rimac Technology employs less than 1,400 people, and is a leading provider of power transmission technologies, from engineering and production to the development and distribution of battery systems (high voltage), electric motors or even software.

This is where cooperation will bear fruit, since the goal with BMW is to develop and develop innovative battery solutions for electric vehicles.. Still aiming to sell half of its electric cars by 2030, the Bavarian manufacturer plans to use the co-developed technology in its future models in the second half of the 2020s. Knowing that from 2025, is the new Neue Klasse platform that will launch a range of models equipped with the sixth generation of BMW eDrive technology.

Rimac continues to grow

For its part, Rimac, in response to this big project with BMW, will have to increase its automatic production lines. on his campus near Zagreb. After going from being a niche seller to having to adapt to a very large number, Mate Rimac is pleased: “With the unlimited growth of our business, together with the opening of the Rimac Campus, we are now ready to deliver large-scale projects for the leading brands in the automotive industry.

Now we just have to wait a little longer to find out in more detail how this collaboration between BMW and Rimac will take, and what its content will be. It will continue!