This is Idol Chat with Mate Rimac - where we discuss his his life and see his personal cars. In Part 1 Mate (founder and CEO of Automobili Rimac - who make the 2000hp EV hypercar) sits down with Jonny Smith on some awful old chairs to openly talk about his career and his interesting car choices. Sometimes compared to Nikola tesla and Elon Musk, Mate only has a one car garage at home, so just for The Late Brake Show he arranged to bring his vehicles to an empty shopping mall which has recently started conversion into a new Rimac car and battery production facility. Despite the company being part owned by Porsche and Hyundai, Mate has a thing for BMW M cars. He doesn't even drive an EV every day - it's either an M5 or one of his 100kmh e-bikes.

If you haven't already, watch the first drive review of the 258mph Rimac Nevera hypercar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3COJswplw&t=444s

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Jonny Smith
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:12 Terrible chairs
3:40 This is just the start...
4:30 School life and emigrating to Germany
5:37 Why car fascination?
10:02 First car
10:40 Modified moped
12:00 Motorbike crash. Ducati time.
13:45 Go to guy for high voltage
14:20 Blowing up the BMW E30 drift car
16:00 Convert BMW to EV!
17:02 White Zombie EV Datsun
17:15 EV experimenting with Igor
19:28 Electric classic car conversions
19:57 E-bikes
22:34 Tesla ahead 10 years ago
23:50 Bugatti owners
24:15 Spoken to Elon Musk?
24:52 Subscribe
25:00 Coming up in part 2

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