We know. We're at the intersection of sustainability and project management. We think it's pretty cool but...would the general population give us cool points for being at this particular intersection?
I mean, really. We get it. No. Not at that intersection. Maybe we'd be cooler if we were standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona...
But today we'd like to share with you something that is at the corner of sustainability, projects, and very, very cool. No, it's not on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. It's more likely to be found at a corner in Croatia. In particular, you will find it precisely at 10431 Sveta Nedelja, Croatia.
We're talking about the Concept_One car from Rimac Automobili.
It's for sale, according to several stories breaking this week. And it's available for the low, low price of only $980,000.
What caught our attention was the drive (excuse the pun) of the designer (Mate Rimac), as well as the performance achieved by the design.
From the design perspective, it was developed over a two-year period after he converted his own BMW to an electric vehicle for racing. As he continued replacing components from the BMW, he realized that he had almost nothing left of the original. So he was pretty much starting from a blank piece of paper.
Rimac says that the company will be making 88 versions of the car but already had pre-orders from "the Abu Dhabi royal family". The car is now officially on sale after its latest outing, this time at the Top Marques event in Monaco. The first shipments are expected to be next year, and we wonder how many other royals will now be raiding their coffers.
As to performance, this EV is capable of 0-60 mph acceleration in just 2.8 seconds and top speeds of 190 mph. The world-beating performance figures, for an electric car at least, are courtesy of Rimac’s innovative quad-motor design, which has a combined output of 1,088 horsepower and 2,800 pound-feet of torque.
Rimac also boasts that 92kWh of energy can be stored in the Concept One’s liquid-cooled batteries, which is enough to carry the car a distance of 372 miles on a single charge.
Below is a little video that explains a bit about how it works....
We share the automotive press world with Rimac this week, not because we've released our own vehicle - no, as we said, we just don't have those cool points. However, we did partner with EcoCar2, a great program to develop an electric car, sponsored in part by GM, Argonne National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy, and 15 university teams from all over North America. Our organization will be providing PM coaching for these teams of students, who have 3 years each to impress the heck out of judges and win the competition for the best design of an electric vehicle based on a 2013 Chevy Malibu.
Our take on this: there are projects like the Rimac Concept_One, where everyone is focused on sustainability. But a project manager is a change agent wherever he or she is working. Think like Mate Rimac. Maybe you can rework - and rewire - your project for sustaianbility, no matter what type of project it is. At least consider it.
