If a new filing discovered by CarBuzz at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office is anything to go by, Porsche is considering producing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and if it does go ahead with the innovation detailed here, the German automaker will maximize spatial efficiency, packing more storage area into the same underfloor space.
The main points of the patent do matter to us; As mentioned, this is necessarily a new design aimed at maximizing the usable garage area in hydrogen tanks while also minimizing the use of raw materials.
What is disputed is that Porsche is even fuel cell.
Besides an unsubstantiated rumor back in 2015, we can find no evidence that Porsche has ever seriously considered a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Porsche published an article in 2020 that took a broad look at the benefits and drawbacks of hydrogen as fuel, but that was all we heard until 2022, when the automaker announced the results of a hydrogen combustion study. The results of this study were positive, but Porsche quickly pointed out that its H2 engine was never intended for production in its existing form.
Basically, whether it’s hydrogen combustion or fuel cells, Porsche is open to everything, but it’s far from compromising. She is much more interested in hybridization and/or artificial fuels.
A mobile fuel configuration would never resemble a Porsche 911, especially since most of this car’s character lies in the placement of weight on the rear axle more than in any other domain of the automobile. It is also too heavy and bulky in its current form. Although it is possible that one day it will be implemented in larger cars such as the Cayenne or Panamera.
Regardless of where the concepts in this patent may potentially be located, Porsche, like altactics, looks for tactics to make things lighter and more effective in any and all ways. That’s why we’re sure of itself, the all-electric Mission X. The hypercar will be brilliant when it finally arrives later this decade.