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Inventor of the electric wheel-hub motor. Following his plumbing apprenticeship in his father's business, Ferdinand Porsche's abilities and his interest in technology led him to begin his career at the Vereinigten Elektrizitätswerke of Bela Egger & Co in Vienna.
Jun 11, 2018 · History. Historians, Miscellaneous: Biographies. Ferdinand Porsche. views 2,896,625 updated Jun 11 2018. Ferdinand Porsche. Though he and his son founded the high-performance sports car firm that bears the family name, Ferdinand Porsche Sr. (1875-1951) is also remembered as the visionary who created the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1930s.
Mar 28, 1998 · Ferdinand Porsche, creator of the German sports car that bore his family name and son of the legendary engineer who designed the Volkswagen Beetle, died yesterday at his family's vacation home...
Gamechanger: how Ferdinand Porsche designed the first-ever hybrid car. Electromobility and Porsche goes back nearly 125 years 27 June 2023. Hybrid and all-electric cars may feel like a thoroughly modern mobility solution, but the man who founded Porsche was designing battery-powered cars at the turn of the 20th Century.
Ferdinand Porsche. Inducted 1987. 1875 - 1951. “If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.” Ferdinand Porsche’s name is synonymous with sports cars, but his true legacy is the “people’s car” he created; the Volkswagen Beetle. Porsche was born in 1875 in what is now Vratislavice nad Nisou, Czech Republic.
Apr 8, 2012 · Ferdinand "Butzi" Porsche, who has died aged 76, was the industrial designer responsible for the shape of the Porsche 911 sports car. He was the last member of the German engineering dynasty...
Apr 5, 2012 · Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who designed the first 911 sports car and went on to found a consumer-products design firm that also carried the Porsche name, died Thursday in Salzburg, Austria.
