Final yr, Rimac chief Mate Rimac started speaking about his concepts for the Mission 3 Mobility (P3M) division he created as a separate arm inside Rimac. In growth for greater than 5 years and about so far as one can get from the seven-figure hypercar area and nonetheless be speaking a few automotive, Rimac’s thought facilities on an electrical robotaxi that “may change the best way individuals transfer round cities.” Stories in January stated P3M deliberate an idea reveal this yr of “a automotive however a totally completely different kind.” The CEO logged on Instagram to publish the primary teaser, a stop-motion bit with a brief soundtrack by the American rapper Widespread. Essentially the most surprising side of the tease is that the cutout form traipsing by the body positively appears like a daily automotive.
The caption on the finish of the vid asks us to “Keep within the looooop!”, a tagline that may make sense for a driverless car on a set route or geofenced in a central downtown space. We hope there is a story behind the flying cat, too.
Within the U.S., a lot of the autonomy focus has been on getting driverless autos to work similar to the autos we drive now and inside present infrastructure. Rimac’s take is, “We expect that lots of people are lacking the larger image and specializing in a few of the constructing blocks, just like the autonomous driving system itself. … We imagine perhaps that’s not the differentiator itself, that there are another differentiating components throughout the ecosystem of autonomous mobility.” Mission 3 Mobility can be stated to be working up “chargers, storage hubs, and parking areas” as a part of the ecosystem.
Mission 3 has a web site now, championing the corporate’s aspirations of “redefining city mobility” and “constructing an city ecosystem for autonomous, secure, and easy motion.” A funding spherical in February raised one other 100 million euros ($108M U.S.), one other step towards the $535 million euros ($578M U.S.) P3M believes it should want for market launch. The primary robotaxis are scheduled to roll out on Rimac’s dwelling streets of Zagreb, Croatia in 2026, adopted by the UK and Germany in 2027.
