{"id":2388,"date":"2015-05-12T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2015-05-12T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:55:26","slug":"hybrid-technology-from-porsche-and-bosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid technology from Porsche and Bosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 918 Spyder, the Panamera S E-Hybrid and the Cayenne S E-Hybrid, Porsche was the first car manufacturer in the world to offer three plug-in hybrid models. Among the suppliers Porsche relies on for the innovative drive system is Bosch. The possibilities offered by the combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor will impressively be demonstrated by the Porsche hybrid vehicles at the 62nd International Automotive Press Briefing at the Boxberg test track, starting May 19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We promised to redefine driving pleasure, efficiency and performance with the 918 Spyder. We kept our word, and in so doing repositioned hybrid technology&#8221;, says Wolfgang Hatz, Member of the Executive Board \u2013 Research and Development at Porsche AG. The Porsche 918 Spyder<sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">1)<\/span><\/sup> was the first globally road-legal car to complete the 20.6 kilometre lap of the North Loop of the N\u00fcrburgring in less than seven minutes. At exactly six minutes and 57 seconds, this super sports car with plug-in hybrid drive beat the existing record by 14\u00a0seconds. Porsche also integrated the knowledge gained from the develop-ment of the technology demonstrator into the electrification of the rest of its model range. The Panamera S E-Hybrid<sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">2)<\/span><\/sup> and Cayenne S E-Hybrid<sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">3)<\/span><\/sup> round off the product range and make Porsche the global market leader for hybrid cars in the premium segment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Porsche and Bosch have teamed up to bring electrification to electrifying sports cars together. Electricity gives added driving pleasure and efficiency&#8221;, says Dr.\u00a0Rolf Bulander, Chairman of the Business Sector Mobility Solutions at Bosch. For the three plug-in models made by Porsche, Bosch supplies the power electronics, the battery pack, the electric motors for the Cayenne and Panamera and the electric motor installed on the front axle of the 918 Spyder.<\/p>\n<p><b>918 Spyder: a unique combination of performance and efficiency<\/b><br \/>\nThe project definition for the 918 Spyder&#8217;s development team was to build the super sports car for the next decade with a highly efficient and high performance hybrid drive. The completely new development, which logically started from scratch on a blank piece of paper, allows a new concept without having to make any concessions. The whole car was designed around the hybrid drive. The 918\u00a0Spyder thus highlights the potential of hybrid drives, i.e. the simultaneous increase in efficiency and performance, without one coming at the expense of the other. Thanks to the SMG 180\/120 electric motor developed by Bosch, the Porsche 918 Spyder has an additional 210 kW (286 hp) of driving power. The electric motor on the front axle of the 918 Spyder delivers a torque of 210 Nm right from the start, while the motor on the rear axle delivers 375 Nm. The result is a total system output of 652 kW (887 hp) with a maximum torque of up to 1,280 Nm, allowing the 918 Spyder to accelerate from 0 to 100 km\/h in a mere 2.6 seconds. The super sports car&#8217;s fuel consumption, on the other hand, is an amazing 3.1 litres per 100 km, making it more efficient in the NEDC test than most of today&#8217;s small cars.<\/p>\n<p><b>Panamera S E-Hybrid and Cayenne S E-Hybrid: fuel consumption of a small car<\/b><br \/>\nThe driving experience of a sports car combined with the consumption of a small car \u2013 the Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid and Panamera S E-Hybrid prove that these two are not contradictory to each other. The world&#8217;s first plug-in hybrid amongst the premium SUVs with a system output of 306 kW (416 hp) achieves an NEDC fuel consumption of just 3.4 l\/100 km. The plug-in hybrid model of the Porsche Gran Turismo, which also has a system output of 306 kW (416 hp) stands out thanks to its weight advantage, rear-wheel drive and low drag, giving it a fuel consumption of just 3.1 l\/100\u00a0km.<\/p>\n<p>In the plug-in hybrid models of the Porsche Cayenne and Panamera, Bosch&#8217;s IMG-300 electric motor provides additional electrical propulsion. It gives a boost of up to 310\u00a0Nm of additional torque and provides 70 kW (95 hp) of additional power. The central interface between the electric motor and the battery is the INVCON 2.3 module made by Bosch. The power electronics are the control centre of the electric powertrain, because the system converts the direct current stored as energy in the battery into three-phase alternating current for the electric motor and vice versa. The traction battery stores the electricity in the powertrain. It is made up of prismatic cells with an energy capacity of 9.4 kilowatt hours in the Panamera S E-Hybrid and 10.8 kilowatt hours in the Cayenne S E-Hybrid that can be fully charged from a normal household power socket in less than four hours. Using a high current power supply, the charging time is almost halved to a good two hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1-GS-21198.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2389\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2389\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=2389\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1-GS-21198.jpg?fit=2126%2C1535\" data-orig-size=\"2126,1535\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1385663284&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" 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Among the suppliers Porsche relies on for the innovative drive system is Bosch. The possibilities offered by the combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-Cw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":258,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=258","url_meta":{"origin":2388,"position":0},"title":"Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne Parallel full hybrid technology from Bosch","author":"Tom Denton","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne Parallel full hybrid technology from Bosch goes into series production \u00b7 Launch of first full hybrid vehicles with parallel technology \u00b7 Intelligent drive control system provides key to extraordinary comfort \u00b7 Bosch-made power electronics, electric motor, and adaptive clutch The hybrid variants of the Volkswagen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Automotive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Automotive","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1667,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=1667","url_meta":{"origin":2388,"position":1},"title":"Bosch collision warning system in use in racing at Le Mans","author":"Tom Denton","date":"June 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Bosch technology on board the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Ferrari 458 Italia, GT2 Corvette C6.R, Porsche 911 RSR and Porsche 911 GT3 RSR as well as SRT Viper GTS-R Radar-based collision warning system being used by Corvette Racing Every Le Mans winner since 2000 has used Bosch injection technology This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Automotive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Automotive","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"1-BEG-19222","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-BEG-19222-300x2161.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":270,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=270","url_meta":{"origin":2388,"position":2},"title":"Service and Repair Hybrid Vehicles (Bosch)","author":"Tom Denton","date":"August 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Hybrid drives already power two percent of vehicles newly registered worldwide; this figure is set to rise to around seven percent in the next ten years. 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