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Starting 2019, the first ever electric Porsche will begin assembly at one of the carmaker’s facilities, the one in Zuffenhausen. To get it ready for the newcomer, Porsche kicked off the largest construction project in the site’s eight decades of history.
The numbers pertaining to the build made public by Porsche over the weekend are impressive: twenty-eight thousand truckloads of earth have been excavated, 112,000 cubic meters of concrete and tens of thousands of metric tons of steel have been delivered, and 700 million EUR is to be spent in creating the new assembly lines for the Taycan.
Three hundred planners and as many as three thousand plant and construction experts are involved in drawing up and executing the work which in the end will turn into a new body shop, paint shop, conveyor bridge, and the halls for assembly and logistics, electric drive, and axle production.
Back in October, Porsche showed some renderings of how the Taycan will look like on the assembly line. That’s if it can be called an assembly line as Porsche will not be using a usual layout for the construction of the Taycan, but rather a flexi-line approach which will see cars moving on the factory floor with the help of driverless transport systems.
When ready to roll out the gates of the new assembly facility, the Taycan will do so packing a battery capable of giving it a range of over 500 km (311 miles).
The battery will be capable of fast charging from an 800 V system, meaning a range of four hundred kilometers (248 miles) can be achieved in just fifteen minutes after being plugged in.
The electric Porsche will use two permanently synchronous motors (PSM) to drive its wheels – one for each of the axles - similar to the ones deployed on the 919 Hybrid race car and capable of developing 600 horsepower.
More details on the transformation of the Zuffenhausen facility can be found in the document attached below.
Three hundred planners and as many as three thousand plant and construction experts are involved in drawing up and executing the work which in the end will turn into a new body shop, paint shop, conveyor bridge, and the halls for assembly and logistics, electric drive, and axle production.
Back in October, Porsche showed some renderings of how the Taycan will look like on the assembly line. That’s if it can be called an assembly line as Porsche will not be using a usual layout for the construction of the Taycan, but rather a flexi-line approach which will see cars moving on the factory floor with the help of driverless transport systems.
When ready to roll out the gates of the new assembly facility, the Taycan will do so packing a battery capable of giving it a range of over 500 km (311 miles).
The battery will be capable of fast charging from an 800 V system, meaning a range of four hundred kilometers (248 miles) can be achieved in just fifteen minutes after being plugged in.
The electric Porsche will use two permanently synchronous motors (PSM) to drive its wheels – one for each of the axles - similar to the ones deployed on the 919 Hybrid race car and capable of developing 600 horsepower.
More details on the transformation of the Zuffenhausen facility can be found in the document attached below.
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