Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Ruf creates Porsche Cayenne based eRuf Stormster

eRuf Stormster grün - utter above for high-res image gallery

A lowercase more than a year ago, the Porsche tuning specialist at Ruf undraped their prototypal automobile car, the 911-based eRuf. That prototypal iteration was definitely not ready for production, but the gathering at Ruf are not known for taking half measures. A some months after the eRuf was shown to the world, the second iteration with more power and device batteries appeared as the Greenster at the Genf Motor Show. Ruf has said it plans to physique that automobile in restricted numbers.

The 911 is pretty small, and as a result, packaging sufficiency batteries to get a multipurpose range is not a trivial matter. The latest eRuf var. is the Stormster, a plug-in automobile Cayenne, so uncovering shack for the cells doesn't figure to be as problematic. The Stormster is uses the same 270 kW technologist locomote that was in the Greenster along with Li-Tec metal ion batteries. We don't still undergo how some examples they wish to build, where they wish to delude it, or how much it module cost. Critically, we also don't undergo how farther it module go on a charge. The state we got from Ruf does feature it module be available in the standard Cayenne embody or the primary wide-body that Ruf produces, the "Stormster grün." Either way, you can analyse it out in our high-res gallery below and dissect the advise release after the jump.


Gallery: eRuf Stormster


[Source: Ruf]


PRESS RELEASE:

RUF introduces the prototypal SUV with automobile powertrain.

FTO Automobile GmbH, located in the diminutive province municipality of Pfaffenhausen, the concern of broad action automobiles, introduced the prototypal automobile sports automobile (eRUF) from FRG in Oct 2008.

During the Genf Motor Show, in March 2009, FTO presented an phylogenesis of the prototypal eRUF, widely known as "Greenster".

The eRUF kinsfolk continues to grow with the unveiling of the "Stormster", the very prototypal electrically unvoluntary SUV supported on the Porsche Cayenne.

The Stormster is unvoluntary by a technologist automobile motor, with 270 kW (367 bhp) as in the eRUF sports car. The amount weight is 2,670 kg which makes it capable of reaching 100 rate in only 10 seconds. The crowning speed is 150 km/h, being healthy to reach a range of 200 km at digit charge.

The metal ion accumulators are supplied by Li-Tec Battery GmbH. Li-Tec is the prototypal concern of metal ion shelling cells in Europe, designed for the automobile industry using instrumentation hardware technology.

Hankook matured the season tires for the all wheel drive Stormster which is fitted to FTO classic 5 spoke lightweight wheels. Tires of size 295/30 R 22 earmark the prizewinning doable agency grip.

The Stormster module hit its prototypal open debut during the European Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, (COP 15), Denmark from Dec 7th to 18th.

Filed under: SUV, Europe, Technology, Porsche, Electric

Tags: automobile porsche, automobile porsche cayenne, ElectricPorsche, ElectricPorscheCayenne, eruf stormster, ErufStormster, Porsche Cayenne, porsche cayenne ev, PorscheCayenne, PorscheCayenneEv



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