---
title: "What Would You Swap Rimac’s 1,340-Horsepower C_Two Rear Axle Into?"
description: "Integrated electric axles can fit a number of applications, and Mate Rimac's comes with all the winning numbers."
date: "2020-07-28"
modified: "2020-07-28"
authors:
  - name: "Máté Petrány"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/mate-petrany"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/tech/35155/what-would-you-swap-rimacs-1340-horsepower-c_two-rear-axle-into"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Electric Cars"
  - "electric motors"
  - "EVs"
  - "mate rimac"
  - "Powertrain"
  - "Rimac"
  - "Rimac C_Two"
---

# What Would You Swap Rimac’s 1,340-Horsepower C\_Two Rear Axle Into?

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The [Rimac C\_Two](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/35064/rimac-snags-apple-alumni-top-ex-tesla-engineer-to-polish-c_two-hypercar>) is a four-wheel-drive electric hypercar with four independent permanent-magnet electric motors and torque vectoring. It sends a combined 1,914 horsepower through a pair of two-speed gearboxes on its rear axle, and two single-speed units with a 5:8 ratio on the smaller front axle. It also features a total of seven cooling systems to keep the two main units and the roughly [8,000 battery cells in line.](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/33139/how-rimac-torture-tests-its-hypercar-batteries>)

The result of this rather complex 2,425-pound powertrain is a wheel torque figure of 12,573 pound-feet in first gear and 6,068 in second, for a zero-to-62 run of under 2 seconds. Meanwhile, top speed is a staggering 258 miles per hour thanks to the motors that rev to 17,700 rpm.

![message-editor%2F1595953869392-rimac-c\_two-prototype-assembly-line-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1595953869392-rimac-c_two-prototype-assembly-line-5.jpg>)
*C\_Two prototype on the assembly line., *Rimac**

As you'd expect, both Mate Rimac and powertrain team Lead Boris Tarnovski can hit you with a lot more figures regarding the C\_Two in just one minute each, also touching the subject of how such an innovative concept can [reach a production-ready state](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30022/watch-a-rimac-c_two-hypercar-get-crashed-repeatedly-in-the-name-of-safety>) under a CEO who's rarely set on a design. Tarnovski has the experience, since back in 2011, he was one of Rimac's first three employees.

Aside from hitting the streets in the Rimac C\_Two and the Pininfarina Battista, Rimac's compact powertrain packages could find their way into a number of other applications, including swaps in classic cars. The smaller one used for the front axle of the C\_Two is a 209-pound unit offering 600 horsepower and over 2,200 pound-feet of torque. The rear one produces 1,340 horsepower. Rimac would like to know what you'd do with such a groundbreaking piece of kit:

https://youtube.com/embed/GRD1TcOPdL4

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## Author
As a fan of old cars, new cars, trains, planes, buses, and you-name-it, Máté can sometimes be seen driving an Autobianchi around Budapest, much to the amusement of the children, mostly. When not time-traveling, he continues to report from the future to his American colleagues, often talking about Lotus, Ozzy Osbourne, or both.

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