The others dropped out because of technical problems. The Phaeton designation in mythology, a reference to the son of the god Eos refers to an open car with front and back seats, derived from horse-drawn carriages of similar configuration. The car demonstrates that automaker Porsche's turn toward eletrification hardly is a new development. A TV ad shows it driving faster than electric wires can spread news of its performance. Porsche also fields the Spyder gas-electric hybrid race car.
In contrast to P1, the racer has a combined gas-electric power rating of hp hp maximum from the electric motor , and can go 10 times as fast as P1 -- mph though only 93 mph on electric power only. Porsche's first car, in , was electric.
The car, made in , was recently unearthed in an Austrian garage , where it had been stored since After a trip to the US, Ludwig Lohner, the owner of that firm, became convinced that the age of the horse and carriage was ending, and he asked Ferdinand Porsche to come up with an electric drive train. Ferdinand Porsche designed an "octagonal electric motor" that was powered by electric batteries and suspended amidst shock absorbers in the rear of the vehicle.
Using a complicated series of gears, the car was driven using a speed controller, which had six forward gears, two reverse gears and four gears with which to brake the car. The P1 took to the streets of Vienna, Austria, on 26 June The world's first hybrid car - a vehicle powered by petrol and electricity - also originated from Ferdinand Porsche.
In his 17 years of continuous work for the large Austrian industrial company, which he later headed as General Director, he developed the first aerodynamically-shaped, high-performance limousines winning - with himself behind the wheel - the famous Prince Heinrich Tour. While there he also built trucks and the Landwehr train for the Emperor's army designed to travel on both roadways and railroad tracks, designed aircraft engines for which he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Vienna and after the First World War built the first two-seater sports car, the "Sascha," which took first place in the Targa Florio road race.
In Ferdinand Porsche moved to Stuttgart to become Technical Director at Daimler, where he assumed responsibility for the development of the famous S, SS and SSK models, while also helping to develop truck and aero-engines, etc. Nearly 60 years later, in , the Porsche Museum opened in Zuffenhausen, a suburb of Stuttgart. We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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