Rimac: This is what the new headquarters of the electric car manufacturer looks like

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Rimac Campus:

The manufacturer's new headquarters for electric sports cars measures 200,000 square meters and will cost at least 200 million euros

Photo: Rimac

He is often called "The Elon Musk of the Balkans" -

Mate Rimac

(33) doesn't really like

the comparison

that much.

On the one hand, because the most famous Croatian entrepreneur has a "huge respect for Elon", as he says.

On the other hand, because the creator of fully electric PS monsters is anything but a mass manufacturer and wants to earn his living primarily as a supplier of high-tech electrical components in the future.

At the same time,

Elon Musk

(49) also started small with a sensational roadster.

And now it is apparently also getting too tight for Rimac: The car manufacturer is planning a new headquarters on the outskirts of the Croatian metropolis Zagreb.

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"The campus is our stepping stone for growth plans for the next decade," says Mate Rimac

Photo: Dalibor Urukalovic / Pixsell / imago images

"We have reached a point where we have to build our long-term home in Croatia, and that is exactly what the Rimac Campus is," says the laid-back young entrepreneur with a hipster beard.

He spent eight years meticulously planning the campus.

The property is 200,000 square meters, half of which is built on.

The campus is dominated by a gigantic hexagon and a large, kidney-shaped office wing that is to offer space for 2500 employees in the long term.

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The production of the electric sports cars should be completely climate-neutral

Photo: Rimac

Only a few kilometers as the crow flies from Rimac's current location, the campus is to bundle development, administration and production in a huge area.

According to its own information, Rimac wants to develop and build prototypes here as well as manufacture small series and, in the medium term, also produce large series of its electric drive and battery systems that meet the highest demands.

200 million euros investment

Construction work is scheduled to begin this year, and the new headquarters should be ready for occupancy in 2023.

Not only the extraordinary building, which follows a holistic and sustainable approach, but also the estimated costs of 200 million euros show how lucrative it is apparently to count manufacturers such as Porsche, Hyundai or Aston Martin among your customers, although Porsche is now just under holds a quarter of the shares in the noble forge.

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Not only in a green location, but also designed in green

: the new Rimac campus should offer space for 2500 employees in the long term.

All sorts of amenities should make their everyday work easier.

Photo: Rimac

In contrast to many other electrical startups, Rimac Automobili, which was founded in 2009, has long been making profits - in five of the past eight years, as Mate Rimac assures.

"I don't think any other company in the industry can say that," Bloomberg quotes him.

In 2019, Rimac generated - the balance sheet of the previous year has not yet been audited - accordingly 1.4 million euros profit on a turnover of 23 million euros.

"The campus is our springboard for the growth plans that we have for the next decade and beyond. It strengthens us as a niche manufacturer of hypercars and as a leading supplier of electrical line technology for the largest automobile manufacturers in the world," emphasizes the young entrepreneur.

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Following the self-confident understanding of the brand, the electrical start-up also wants to offer the best possible working environment for an international workforce.

According to the plan, this includes relaxation rooms, a fitness and training center, a kindergarten and restaurant for employees, meadows with roaming farm animals and our own organic food production, as well as a museum with a bar and a merchandise shop.

Some of them should also be allowed to be used by visitors, who are also allowed to watch during the tours behind glass panes how the noble electric sports cars are handcrafted - fully electric objects of desire with up to 2000 hp and 400 kilometers per hour, which hardly any of the visitors behind the window can see probably ever will be able to achieve.

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