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'When German automaker Porsche was preparing to release its first electric
vehicle (EV) in 2019, executives met with a roomful of historians to test a
slogan idea: "The world's first electric Porsche."
From the end of the long table, there came a chuckling noise.
Heads turned to stare.
"That won't work," said Guido Eickholz, the director of the archive of the
German auto-parts manufacturer, Reutter.
"It's not the first electric Porsche. There's been one done years ago and it's
sitting in a factory in Melbourne."
How this car came to be the world's first electric Porsche — and end up in
Melbourne — is a story about tinkering, racing, restoration, obsession, and the
mostly forgotten history of early EVs.
Long before today's sleek designs there were dozens of prototypes, some
familiar-looking, others truly bizarre.
It's also a story about what could have been: a glimpse of an alternate history
in which something like today's EVs arrived years earlier.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
