Mercédès Mixte: electric hub motors

Date:
November 1906
Description:
Österreichische Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft presents the new Mercédès Mixte passenger car models for 1907. The 45 hp / 33 kW or 70 hp / 51 kW petrol engine drives electric hub motors in the front wheels via a generator.

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Electric wheel hub drive of the Mercedes Mixte and Mercedes Electrique models, developed by Ferdinand Porsche, Technical Director of the Austrian Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft from 1906. As of 1907, the vehicles are built in a small series. In the Mixte hybrid vehicles, the combustion engine drives a generator that supplies electrical energy to the wheel hub motors. In a two-seater forerunner of the Mercedes Mixte based on a Lohner-Porsche with a Mercedes 28 hp engine, Porsche competes in the Exelberg Race in Lower Austria on 11 May 1902 and wins the large car class.

Advertisement: "Mercedes-Electrique" from the Deutsche Mercedes-Verkaufs-Gesellschaft, 1907.