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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 was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing car, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK and several other important automobiles and technologies.
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 · Porsche, Ferdinand (1875–1951) German car manufacturer who designed the Volkswagen Beetle. In 1934, Porsche produced plans for an affordable car that the Nazis named Volkswagen (‘people's car’) and promised to mass produce.
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...
Apr 6, 2012 · Ferdinand A. Porsche, who designed the original Porsche 911, the snazzy, powerful sports car that became the lasting signature of the German automobile company founded by his grandfather and...
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.
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