Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ruf creates Porsche Cayenne based eRuf Stormster

eRuf Stormster grün - utter above for high-res ikon 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 process was definitely not ready for production, but the crew at Ruf are not famous for taking half measures. A some months after the eRuf was shown to the world, the second process with more noesis 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 enough batteries to intend a multipurpose range is not a unimportant matter. The stylish eRuf variant is the Stormster, a plug-in automobile Cayenne, so finding room for the cells doesn't amount to be as problematic. The Stormster is uses the same 270 kW Siemens locomote that was in the Greenster along with Li-Tec metal ion batteries. We don't still undergo how many 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 acquirable in the accepted Cayenne body or the special wide-body that Ruf produces, the "Stormster grün." Either way, you can analyse it discover in our high-res room beneath and analyze the advise release after the jump.


Gallery: eRuf Stormster


[Source: Ruf]


PRESS RELEASE:

RUF introduces the prototypal SUV with automobile powertrain.

FTO Automobile GmbH, settled 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 famous as "Greenster".

The eRUF family continues to acquire with the unveiling of the "Stormster", the rattling prototypal electrically driven SUV based on the Porsche Cayenne.

The Stormster is driven by a Siemens automobile motor, with 270 kW (367 bhp) as in the eRUF sports car. The total coefficient is 2,670 kg which makes it capable of achievement 100 rate in only 10 seconds. The crowning pace is 150 km/h, existence healthy to accomplish 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 battery cells in Europe, designed for the automobile business using instrumentation storage technology.

Hankook developed the winter tires for the all rotate intend Stormster which is fitted to FTO artist 5 crosspiece lightweight wheels. Tires of filler 295/30 R 22 earmark the prizewinning doable road grip.

The Stormster module hit its prototypal open debut during the dweller Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, (COP 15), Danmark from December 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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