2026 Rimac Verne First Look: Croatian Startup Tackles Its Next Impossible Mission

The guy who invented the electric hypercar, bought Bugatti, and is launching a Croatian auto industry presents: the little, limo-like, robo-taxi that could.
German author Franz Born once dubbed Jules Verne as "the man who invented the future." That future has slowly but surely been coming true, from skyscrapers, to moving sidewalks, to submarines, to rockets traveling faster than the speed of sound. Croatian auto-pioneer and entrepreneur Mate Rimac has been channeling Jules Verne's spirit of adventure, and his next "impossible mission" is to level up mobility as a service (MaaS) by launching fleets of stylish, fully autonomous, electric ride-hailing cars that offer the seating space, ambiance, and cargo capacity of a Rolls-Royce or limo in the footprint of a subcompact SUV, priced to compete with ride-hailing services. The name for this mission: Verne