Total 911

Dr Porsche’s best inventions

Electrical wheel hub motor

uring his time working for Bela Egger & Co. in Vienna, Porsche would take the concept of an American inventor, Wellington Adams, one step further, developing an almost-frictionless electrical wheel hub motor. The motor was first raced in

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