Porsche Considering Hybrid & Diesel
May 16, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Porsche have always been known for precision engineering, bringing the best technology and engineers together to create the best sports cars the world has ever seen, without compromise.
Rumours from Germany are pointing the Hybrid stick at Porsche, the German manufacturer is reportedly given the green light for the developement of a Hybrid Cayenne in 2009. Of course the technology isn’t all developed by Porsche, a fair bit of the R&D is borrowed from Volkswagen, (Porsche owns a good chunk of Volkswagen).
There is also a possibility that Porsche’s new Grand Tourer, the Panamera, will also be offered in Hybrid format. It doesn’t just stop there, there is also talk of Diesel Porsches!
Porsche have worked hard with Audi (owned by Volkswagen – Porsche) on the development of the soon to be released Audi Q7 hybrid (which is essentially based on the Cayenne and VW Touareg platform). Reports hint the new Hybrid vehicles will be able to drive at around 30km/hr without the use of their gasoline engine. Excellent for traffic driving.
This talk of Porsche creating Hybrid and Diesel cars is a true sign that the industry as a whole has realized that the time has come to draw the line and move forward with newer technologies to not only tackle global warming, but face the issue that fossil fuel is a finite resource.
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The Hybrid portion is coming from Toyota
Toyota instructed Porker about lean manufacture and JITM, SIGMA 6 etc about 10 years ago.
Yeap, Germans learning from the Japanese!
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wtf?
if u wanted to save money on fuel why in gods name would u buy an urban cowboy wagon, sorry, 4×4. theyre now making a hybrid for excellant city driving? please
who cares about hybrid, the world will be out of fuel in about 10 years, were doomed any way you look at it.
4×4’s should be banned in city areas
Fuel it tipped to last a lot longer than 10 years. Atleast Porsche are trying to make even a slight improvement of the environment.
yes, albeit a VERY slight one
fuel will last longer than 10 years, the world wont suddenly dry up in oil. but when demand outdoes supply (known as PEAK oil) prices will skyrocket ($10+/liter). oil production follows a bell shape curve, and soon enough it will be on a downturn.
These hybrids will make it easier for people to afford transport if petrol prices go up. If petrol runs out then people can maybe switch to diesel and we’ll have diesel hybrids. If diesel runs out maybe we can use LPG and we’ll have LPG hybrids.
i’m a big fan of porsche cayenne and wouldn’t mind hybrid version with diesel for fuel to save on oil. but would performance still be the same, if it’s using diesel?