Winter semester issue 2019/20 CHARGED UP FOR AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURE OPENINGS. OPPORTUNITIES. CAREERS. What the Taycan sounds like CONTENTS 04 Perspectives 06 Next Open Innovation Competition 07 First day at work 04 30 Perspectives: There’s 28 Racing world: Neel Jani hardly a race car 06 07 Virtuoso: The Taycan’s sound has raced in cars with more famous than the Innovation: A start-up that makes First day at work: Alejandro Sarró, is so unusual that it can hardly every type of drive FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: Porsche 917. It has driving a tactile experience wins the a Formula Student designer, be described. It was created system. He will now be ELECTROMOBILITY AT PORSCHE just turned 50 Next Open Innovation Competition lands an internship at Porsche by sound designer Tobias Hillers entering the Formula E 08 Otmar Bitsche and Co.: The people behind the Taycan project A legend on wheels: 08 The 917 with number 001 33 12 CEO Oliver Blume on e-strategy People: Otmar Bitsche is a key History: Electric cars at Porsche figure in development work have a long tradition on the Taycan. But he’s just at Porsche 14 What changes is the Taycan one of the individuals shaping bringing to the factory and electromobility at Porsche employees? 20 Facts, figures, and information on 12 34 electromobility Vision: Porsche is revving up its Background work: No Porsche electric power. CEO Oliver Blume car body could be made without the 22 Spectacular photos of the Taycan C explains the underlying strategy toolmakers in Schwarzenberg test-drives C A A M M P 26 Mate Rimac builds futuristic P U electric cars in Croatia U S 14 38 S New era: Porsche is making Reality check: 28 What should an electric Porsche major investments in its main Trainee Christian sound like? Tobias Hillers knows plant and employee training Wellmann is for the new age of electricity helping to 30 Neel Jani goes electric: He’ll enter develop the Formula E for Porsche the cockpit of the future 33 Why Porsche and electric motors are old friends 34 Toolmakers from Schwarzenberg shape the Taycan nneue 37 Quiz: How much do you know about the future of electromobility? 22 , Test-drives: The Taycan has clocked six million kilometers and proved itself under the toughest conditions 37 38 Reality check: Trainee in action Visit the Rimac Quiz: How much Automobili tech and sports-car do you know about 40 Tennis stars, pro soccer players, company electromobility? and actors drive Porsches too 20 Infographic: Facts, 26 40 42 Understand Porsche/Events figures, and information Mastermind: Mate Rimac builds Star Check: Angelique Kerber is on electric cars and visionary electric cars in Croatia, just one of the sports and show 43 Jobs and careers: Helpful their future with Porsche on board business stars who drive Porsches information on joining the 02/2019 company/Publishing details 02/2019 A record drive by the Porsche 2 € Taycan on the Nürburgring 3 PERSPECTIVES HIGH FLYER TURNS FIFTY Historical backdrop for eleven legend- ary cars: Porsche is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the 917, one of the strongest three-digit combinations from Zuffenhausen. Plant 1’s brick build- ing provides the perfect stage to cho- reograph this serial winner. What is arguably the most famous race car of all time debuted at the Geneva Motor Show on March 12, 1969. Just one year later, Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood drove the 917 with its air-cooled twelve-cylinder mid-engine to a covet- ed overall victory for Porsche at the 24 Hours of Le Mans—the sports-car manufacturer’s greatest racing success at the time. Many more would follow. C A M P U S 02/2019 02/2019 4 5 WORK 1. Spaniard Alejandro Sarró (23) started learning German in 2016. Just for fun, he says. At the time he didn’t know that he would be living in Germany and working for Porsche three years later. at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. But Porsche was always like an unattainable dream. But now your dream has come true. What was your first day like? On the first day I felt a little lost. I wasn’t even familiar with the site because my interview had been by phone. My team leader wasn’t there, so another intern picked me up, and as luck would have it, he was a member of another Formula Student team. I was happy to know someone, and he showed me around a lot. My department also gave me a warm Photo: KlausPhoto: Hepp welcome right away. INNOVATION COMPETITION What is special about being an intern at Porsche? You’re a real member of the team here as an intern, Neuroscience meets enginee- THE FIRST DAY OF WORK FOR ALEJANDRO SARRÓ C C ring: Isabella Hillmer (right) and you’re not just standing around at the copy machine. A AS AN INTERN IN THE FIELD OF A Laura Bücheler combined their I attend meetings, and have been allowed to drive on M FEEDBACK FROM THE BACK M P respective areas of expertise COOLING CIRCUITS AND BATTERY CONDITIONING the test course and also in the climatic wind tunnel. P U in GHOST—feel it., the winning I’ve even been able to work on the Taycan. Porsche U S A feel for driving: the start-up GHOST—feel it. won For the competition, the team integrated this start-up from Berlin. offers me the perfect combination of conventional S this year’s Porsche Next Open Innovation Competi- techno logy into Porsche seats so drivers can feel “PORSCHE WAS LIKE automotive industry and motorsports: you’re building tion with technology that could give Porsche drivers on their backs how to operate their cars in the best cars for the road as well as sports cars. In addition, tactile feedback on their driving performance in and safest ways. The open innovation competition AN UNATTAINABLE DREAM” the company organizes regular gatherings for all the the future. The team came out ahead of more than for digital developments, which Porsche organizes interns, and we also meet a lot on our own to talk. 150 projects with 750 participants from more than with the Berlin-based start-up High Mobility, was We’re like a little family. fifty countries. held for the second time in 2019. It showcased Alejandro, you were essentially discovered future-oriented applications relevant to all aspects by Porsche. How did that happen? In your case, not only is the work new but also GHOST—feel it. was founded in 2017 by neurosci- of sports cars. Porsche will work together with the I took part in the Formula Student with a team from the country and the people. How different is it from entist Isabella Hillmer and engineer Laura Bücheler. top three finishers. “We look forward to launch- my university in Barcelona. Among other things, your life in Spain? Based in Berlin, the start-up aims to improve the ing a project with the Porsche Digital Lab,” says we designed a driverless electric car and were quite Very different. I have some problems with the interaction between people and machines. It focuses Laura Bücheler. successful with it. At the competition on the weather—even on warm days, the mornings feel on technology that can be used for purposes like Hockenheimring, an employee from Weissach came really cold. And I miss the ocean. A lake is not the enabling amputees to feel their prostheses. www.porsche-next-oi-competition.com to us and wanted to know if any of us spoke German. same thing. The rhythm of daily life is also very I was the only one, and he encouraged me to apply different. In Spain it would be unthinkable to start for an internship. And it worked out. work at 6:30 in the morning. The lunch break is much shorter, and the food is different. Here people Could you have anticipated that when you started eat a lot of meat and sauces. your studies in mechanical engineering? No. I come from a family that loves racing. As a child What do you like about Germany? I went to many Formula One races with my father. The people are open, and I feel welcomed. And I like Becoming a driver was out of the question, but käsespätzle (a cheesy noodle dish) and maultaschen working in the automotive industry was a realistic (ravioli). possibility. Because the big manufacturers are based in Germany, it made sense to do a semester abroad Interview Julia Bayer 02/2019 7 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN HYPE AND REVOLUTION Electric cars will bring fundamental changes to mobility in the future—and therefore also to car makers, in the form of new opportunities. omewhere along the line, every innovation reaches a turning point. The triumphal march of cars with combustion engines took off in 1912 when Charles Kettering, a teacher from Ohio, installed an electric starter motor in place of the troublesome crank. That in- vention abruptly decided the head-to-head race between gasoline- and electricity-powered cars at the time. But precisely the system that was C S C once left behind is now making a comeback. More powerful than before, more A A M sophisticated than ever, for many people it represents the cleanest solution for M P the mobility needs of tomorrow. Suddenly everyone is charged up. Not only the P U established car makers are electrified. New players like computer manufactur- U S S ers and software giants are entering the field as well.