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Porsche Engineering Magazine Anniversary Issue 1/2011 Porsche Engineering Magazine a 80 years of engineering services. Time to look back? Anniversary Issue 1/2011 Porsche Engineering Magazine Sure, but not for too long. The future is waiting. Impressum About Porsche Engineering At Porsche Engineering, engineers are of a premium car manufacturer. Whether working on your behalf to come up with you need an automotive developer for new and unusual ideas for vehicles and your project or would prefer a specialist industrial products. At the request of systems developer, we offer both – be - our customers we develop a variety of cause Porsche Engineering works right solutions – ranging from the design of where these two areas meet. The exten - individual components and the layout of sive knowledge of Porsche Engi neering complex modules to the planning and converges in Weissach – and yet it is implementation of complete vehicles, glob ally available, including at your com - inclu ding production start-up manage - p any’s offices or production facili ties. ment. What makes our services special Regardless of where we work, we always is that they are based on the expertise bring a part of Porsche with us. Impressum Porsche Engineering Magazine Publisher Editor Porsche Engineering Group GmbH Frederic Damköhler Address Design: Agentur Designwolf, Stuttgart Porsche Engineering Group GmbH Repro: Piltz Reproduktionen, Stuttgart Porschestraße Printing: Leibfarth&Schwarz, Dettingen/Erms 71287 Weissach, Germany Translation: TransMission Übersetzungen, Stuttgart All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprodu- Tel. +49711 911- 8 88 88 ced without the prior permission of the publisher. We cannot Fax +49711 911- 8 89 99 guarantee that unrequested photos, slides, videos or manus- cripts will be returned. E-mail: [email protected] Porsche Engineering is a 100% subsidiary of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Website: www.porsche-engineering.com Porsche AG. 4 Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 Editorial Dear Readers, For more than 80 years, the name Porsche has stood for engineering services with the highest standards of quality and levels of innovation. We develop solutions that help our customers to move forward and are always dedicated to meeting the challenges of tomorrow. Ferdinand Porsche was also always look - Intelligent thermal management also plays ing ahead: he developed the first func - an important role in electromobility. The tioning hybrid automobile in the world engineers at Porsche Engineering have way back in 1900. With the founding of thus developed new technologies to his engineering office in 1931, Ferdinand achieve optimum temperatures using Porsche also made his creativity and his only the available battery capacity. engineering expertise available to exter - nal clients. We are honored to continue The increasing use of electricity to this tradition. power vehicles is evident in numerous other areas of mobility, whether it is Come with us on a journey through our battery-operated watersports equip ment history and discover the milestones of or all-terrain hybrid mountain bikes. The our customer projects. But let’s not current pinnacle of this development is remain in the past for too long, be cause the Panamera S Hybrid, which marries the future is waiting. Everyone is talking vehicle efficiency, sportiness and ele - about electromobility. We will show you gance like no other vehicle. our contribution to this exciting deve l - op ment. As you can see, our ideas reach far into the future. We look forward to every new For example with the results from the challenge to master. Boxster E research project, a fully elec - trically powered Porsche Boxster, which We hope you enjoy the anniversary issue marks a new chapter in Porsche Intelli - of our magazine. gent Performance and for which we developed, constructed, and tested the Yours, Malte Radmann and Dirk Lappe high-voltage battery among other things. Managing Directors Porsche Engineering Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 5 Contents Contents News 8 About Porsche Engineering 4 Impressum 4 ANNIVERSARY Editorial 5 Pioneering performance for 80 years Porsche Engineering 10 Innovation as a tradition An interview with the Managing Directors of Porsche Engineering 22 Cover ELECTROMOBILITY Ferdinand Porsche had been working on electro- mobility long before 1942, when the cover photo Intelligent ways to innovative performance was taken – what would he have had to say The Boxster E research project 26 about the Boxster E? Thermal management New thermodynamic solutions for electro mobility 34 Mobility goes electric The Porsche Hybrid RS mountain bike and the Seabob 37 The Panamera S Hybrid The Porsche Gran Turismo sets a new benchmark for its class 40 6 Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 Contents 10 History Over many decades, Porsche Engi- neering has built up a reputation as an excellent and multi-faceted engi- neering service provider 26 Research Cutting-edge research for electro- mobility: the Boxster E research vehicle, for which Porsche Engi- neering developed, constructed and tested the high-voltage battery 34 Development Innovative thermodynamic solutions for the challenges of electromobility 22 Interview The Managing Directors of Porsche Engineering discuss the tradition and future of the engineering service provider Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 7 News Porsche Museum special exhibition For the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart- The Porsche Museum is open Tuesday For further information please visit: Zuffenhausen, the 80th anniversary of to Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. www.porsche.com/museum engineering services by Porsche, which was founded way back in 1931, is one of the central themes of 2011. From June 21 to September 11, 2011, the special exhibition “80 Years of engineering services by Porsche” is paying tribute to the most important and interesting customer projects of the past eight de- cades. On display are ap proxi mately 20 special exhibits extending from the de - velopment of entire vehicles via engi- nes and transmissions to remarkable in dus trial projects of the present day. The ten vehicles on display engineered by Porsche include a 1931 vintage Wan - derer sedan, the legendary Auto Union Grand Prix racing car and the Audi Sport Quattro S1. The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen NEWS The Prague office moves into a new building Just in time for the 10 year anniversary of Porsche Engineering s.r.o., Prague, the engineers at the Czech subsidiary are moving into their new offices. The Prague office specializes in complex technical calculations and simulations. This involves using all the latest de - velopments and methods from current research. For this reason, Porsche Engineering has been working closely with the Technical University in Prague for a number of successful years. 8 Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 News Scania relies on Porsche Engineering The Swedish commercial vehicle manu- facturer Scania is developing a new gen - eration of truck cabs with Porsche En - gineering. “In Porsche Engineering, we have found a partner that shares Scania’s values and views on development and production. We will develop a cab frame together that is optimized for Scania’s requirements on styling and functionality, as well as for rational production,” says Per Hallberg, Executive Vice President and Head of Research and Development, Purchasing at Scania. Stay cool Historical edition The Porsche Classic Cooler is the per- The Porsche Museum is also highlighting fect synthesis of technology and design. 80 years of the history of Porsche Engi- A genuine Porsche original. The exclusive neering with a further publication in the bottle cooler was developed as part of a series “Porsche Museum Editions.” The young talent development program by ten publication includes approximately 200 young engineers at Porsche Engineering pages of the most interesting customer for the Porsche Design Driver’s Selection. projects from the last 80 years. Numer - ous photographs, drawings and docu- The design language of the Porsche ments from the Porsche archive collec- Classic Cooler is defined by the use of tion provide a real insight into the work an original ribbed cylinder and therefore of Porsche engineers — material which is emanates the simple and pure design of normally strictly labeled “top secret”. the early air-cooled Porsche 911 engine. The participants in the program were in- The book is available for 14.90 Euro in volved in the entire development pro- the museum shop and in retail stores. cess for the bottle cooler – from the very first idea to the finished product. The Porsche Classic Cooler is Selection Shops and online: available in Porsche Design Driver’s www.porsche.com/shop Porsche Engineering Magazine 1/2011 9 Anniversary History Pioneering performance for 80 years – Porsche Engineering ON APRIL 25, 1931, FERDINAND PORSCHE FOUNDED AN ENGINEERING OFFICE UNDER THE NAME OF “DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRÄNKTER HAFTUNG, KONSTRUKTION UND BERATUNG FÜR MOTOREN- UND FAHRZEUGBAU” IN STUTTGART. TODAY ENGINEERING SERVICES BY PORSCHE OPERATES UNDER THE NAME PORSCHE ENGINEERING AND HAS DEVELOPED PROJECTS FOR AUTOMOBILE MANU- FACTURERS, SUPPLIERS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR MORE THAN 80 YEARS. Anniversary History 80 years of engineering services by Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has been the leading manufacturer of premium sports cars for more than six decades. This success story of Porsche AG is however also based on decades of development experience, stretching far beyond just building sports cars. Over many decades, Porsche has built up a reputation as one of the best known and multi-faceted engineering service providers in the world. 1950, Prof. Ferdinand Porsche (third from left) and Ferry Porsche (second from left) examining an engineering drawing in their office The engineering services company Ferdinand Porsche, sation at the Paris World Exhibition in Porsche Engineering Group GmbH has the automotive designer 1900. No less visionary was Ferdinand its roots in the oldest Porsche AG compa- Porsche’s next idea: again in 1900 he ny.
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