{"id":67469,"date":"2013-04-04T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=67469"},"modified":"2013-04-04T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:42:25","slug":"porsche-to-develop-more-hybrids-in-coming-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/04\/04\/porsche-to-develop-more-hybrids-in-coming-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche to Develop More Hybrids in Coming Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image000023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image000023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image000023.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image000023-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/image000023-480x280.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the debut of the production ready <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/porsche\/\" title=\"Porsche\">Porsche<\/a> 918 Spyder pinned for September this year, Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche\u2019s Research &amp; Development boss has revealed that Porsche will continue developing hybrids well into the future, before even thinking about all-electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Hatz revealed the information during a recent interview with Automotive News where he said that hybrids are \u201cvery important. We have attained a very good cruising altitude here. For example, Porsche will present the 918 Spyder this year with an innovative hybrid concept. In a tough competitive environment, we have been able to take a leading position\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the possibility of the current lithium ion batteries being superseded, Hatz said \u201cI am still convinced that we will stick with the familiar lithium ion batteries for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of Porsche\u2019s current belief in hybrids, Hatz concluded that \u201c&#8230;Porsche won\u2019t have any purely electrically propelled sports cars in the next few years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this is good news, or would you love to see Porsche enter the electric sports car market?<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130401\/OEM02\/304019987\/porsche-switches-gears-on-hybrid-powertrains#axzz2PIBcggAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automotive News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the debut of the production ready Porsche 918 Spyder pinned for September this year, Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche\u2019s Research &amp; Development boss has revealed that Porsche will continue developing hybrids well into the future, before even thinking about all-electric vehicles. Hatz revealed the information during a recent interview with Automotive News where he said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":67018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18368],"tags":[10,489,68,6385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}