Porsche Semper Vivus, the first hybrid car
Currently the automotive world is environmentally friendly cars such as fever, hybrid and electric cars. But who would have thought, Porsche was able to make it more than a century ago.
Prof. Ferdinand Porsche as described Porsche's official website on Monday 4 / 25 can make an environmentally friendly cars since 1900. The car was named Semper Vivus (ie stay alive).
At that time, Porsche showed a four-wheel electric car powered electric motor. This car uses all-wheel drive system (all-wheel drive) with four-wheel brakes are also first used in the world.
Semper Vivus Porsche is now re-emerged to the surface after the event shown in the New York Auto Show, which is currently underway. Reincarnation Semper Vivus started since Porsche pioneered this project in November 2007.
The body of this car looks like a 1900s era car with dimensions 3.390x1880x1.850 mm (LxWxH) with a weight of 1.7 tonnes. Wheelbase (Wheelbase) this car adaah 2310 mm with 250 mm ground clearance.
As for the kitchen pacunya, tucked two hump engine Single-cylinder De Dion-Bouton dipadeu combustion engine electric motors in each leg.
For conventional engine, the car is able to bring power from 2.5 hp per cylinder. While the electric motor capable of producing power 2.7 hp per wheel.
With such power, the world's first hybrid car is able to run with a top speed of 35 km per hour and explore the 200 km road.
