Mid-engine hybrid sports car tops out at 200 mph and sprints to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds.
Few people outside of the Porsche organization are more ecstatic to hear about production plans and actual road-going prototype hybrid 918 sports cars than Sarasota Café Racer and AC/DC rocker, Brian Johnson and wife, Brenda, right. Their order has been in for many months! The 918 Spyder is planned for production at the end of September 2013, with first customer deliveries scheduled for the United States late in 2013.
"What we are doing with the 918 Spyder is redefining driving fun, efficiency and performance," said Wolfgang Hatz, Member of the Executive Board Research and Development of Porsche AG.
The prototypes, their camouflage harking back to iconic Porsche 917 racecars, signal the final touches to the 918 Spyder. The focus is on the interplay between its highly sophisticated individual drive components. The combination of combustion engine and two independent electric motors – one on the front axle and one in the drive line, acting on the rear wheels – poses completely new demands on the development of the operating strategies.
"They are therefore a critical component in this vehicle into which we have put all of our expertise and capacity for innovation," said Wolfgang Hatz.
These operating strategies and the development of the software to go with them are some of Porsche's core competences. Both of them have a major influence on the extreme driving fun to be had with the 918 Spyder and they make possible a unique combination of minimal fuel consumption and maximum performance.
The 770 horsepower super sports car is designed as a plug-in hybrid vehicle combining a high-performance combustion engine with cutting-edge electric motors for extraordinary performance and economical fuel consumption. Porsche is breaking yet more new ground with high technology components including full carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) monocoque with unit carrier, fully adaptive aerodynamics, adaptive rear-axle steering and the upward-venting "top pipes" exhaust system. In the process, the 918 Spyder is offering a glimpse of what Porsche Intelligent Performance may be capable of in future.
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