Ferdinand would name it the ‘P1’ – to signify that it was the first ever Porsche-designed car. Revealed to the public in 1898, the Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton was powered by an octagonal electric motor that produced up to five PS, could hit a top speed of 35km/h and a range of around 80km. The first-ever Porsche-designed electric car could not have been more different to the Porsche Taycan of today. The Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus in 1900 – its name meant ‘forever alive’ in Latin And just a few years later, while working for the Vereinigte Elektrizitäts-AG Béla Egger company in Vienna, the young Ferdinand began designing vehicles with electric drives. In 1893, an 18-year-old Ferdinand showed the kind of technical and engineering nous that would be a feature of his career when he installed a lighting system in his parents’ house. In fact, Ferdinand Porsche designed the first-ever hybrid car, unveiled as a prototype in 1900 – 110 years before the launch of the Cayenne S Hybrid in 2010, the first electrified Porsche of the modern era.įerdinand Porsche had a long-standing fascination with electricity, going back to his childhood. But not only does it have a history that stretches back to the late 1800s, you may well be surprised to learn that the man who founded Porsche – and after whom the company is named – was a pioneer of battery-powered mobility. When it comes to cars, electrification feels very much a 21st Century phenomenon.
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 Electrification: it’s in the Porsche DNA Gamechanger: how Ferdinand Porsche designed the first-ever hybrid car Electromobility and Porsche goes back nearly 125 years
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