Think of the Toyota Prius was the first hybrid car ever? Think about it yet. Honda Insight? Keep rates. In reality, the world's first hybrid was designed and built by none other than Ferdinand Porsche, father of the modern Dr.-Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart. That's right, the same brain that brought us, as ingenious as the machines Volkswagen Beetle and the Auto Union racers glorious built the world's first fully functional hybrid car.
Now that today's brain-trust again Porsche interest in hybrid technology, the German company decided to return the 1900 Semper Vivus, which literally kept alive. Although the technology has come a long way behind hybrids - Porsche's first hybrid about 4,000 pounds of lead-acid batteries are used and could not climb any kind of class - the basic principles are actually pretty equal.
Namely, as the original Semper Vivus, Porsche newest hybrid, the 2012 Cayenne S is equipped with a hybrid engine (in this case, a supercharged V6 333 hp out of service) (added the other 47 horses), an electric motor and a battery. All important little things are the same, only with massive improvements in performance and efficiency.
To celebrate 111 years of hybrid cars, Porsche spent the last four years rebuilding the Semper Vivus, and it will show the fruits of his work at the Geneva Motor Show fast approaching 2011th In an effort to stimulate our appetite, the automaker has a teaser video that you see for yourself after the break, published together with the required release.
