23-year old Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac unveiled the Concept_One electric supercar at the Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday – a 1,099 horsepower machine that can go a little under 600 km per charge, and can get over 300 km/h on a stretch. Is that enough car numbers? I’m not great at car numbers. Take a look at the thing though, it’s sexy.

“We believe that electric motors are simply better machines compared to internal combustion engines. We are not building electric cars ‘to save the planet’ with low CO2 emissions — we are aware of the fact that 10-15 cars a year (which is our annual target production) won’t make any difference in terms of emissions.

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Our target is to raise the bar for sports/supercars in terms of driving dynamics with our All Wheel Torque Vectoring System. I think that the people will look at electric cars from a different angle when they see our car performing.”

Because ‘saving the planet’ is for chumps, that’s why.

[Source: WIRED]