Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Wednesday met with the founder and director of the Rimac Automobili company, Mate Rimac, and discussed the potential of the electric vehicles industry in Croatia, the government said in a press release.

Rimac Automobili’s investment plans have a broad context of developing the local and national transport but also educational and research and development infrastructure, said a statement released after the meeting which was also attended by Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Tomislav Coric, Minister of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets Darko Horvat and Minister for Regional Development and EU Funds Natasa Tramisak.

Prime Minister Plenkovic “expressed support for Rimac Automobili’s development and investment initiatives and announced institutional support to all investors who develop or apply state-of-the-art technology in Croatia,” the press release said.

There was also talk of projects that could be included in the list of projects to be financed from future aid programmes such as the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility and the new EU Multiannual Financial Framework.

Mate Rimac presented plans for the construction of a campus that would consist of the company’s headquarters, a modern research and development plant, a smart factory for high-tech components and electric vehicles, and additional support amenities. Investing in the campus will enable the realisation of a growing number of projects the company is involved in as well as serial production, and the plan is to create 2,300 jobs for highly-educated experts, the press release said.

There are also plans to construct a test centre for technical components for electric vehicles that are essential to meet the growing demands for the company’s services, and to expand its services to testing battery and drive systems and their compliance with green standards, the press release concluded.