aus Facebook Blog "Rolling Art" , Beitrag von Tatiana Kantor (ich hoffe, sie wird es mir verzeihen):
"1900: The first Porsche and the world's first hybrid car. In 1898, long before his stints at Austro-Daimler, Steyr, Mercedes and Auto-Union, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche engineered a radical electrically-powered hybrid car for Joseph Lohner and Company, based in Vienna. Porsche?s efforts caught the attention of Austrian industrialist Ludwig Lohner. Young Ferdinand was fascinated with automobiles. He saw the potential in electrics and began to develop a front-wheel-drive ?wheel motor? that would eliminate the need for gears and a differential. He presented his idea to Lohner who immediately saw a patentable, potentially moneymaking opportunity that could be licensed. Porsche went to work for Lohner, who had a large factory with steam-driven machine tools and craftsmen who could build the machines then 24-year old Ferdinand envisioned. His idea for an automobile differed from anything on the market. Porsche?s creation had its electric motors mounted on the hubs of the front wheels. Instead of a battery pack, the Lohner-Porsche used two small gasoline engines to directly power a generator, which in turn produced a supply of electricity to drive the front wheels. Porsche and Lohner displayed their prototype at the 1900 Paris World?s Fair. It was the first hybrid ? although the term ?hybrid? didn?t exist. Porsche instead gave his car a Latin name, Semper Vivus, which translates to ?forever alive.?
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