Porsche produces prototype complete housing for an electric drive using 3D printing
Porsche has produced its first complete housing for an electric drive using 3D printing. The engine-gearbox unit produced using the additive laser fusion process passed all the quality and stress tests without any problems.
This proves that additive manufacturing with all its advantages is also suitable for larger and highly-stressed components in electric sports cars. Falk Heilfort, Project Manager in the Powertrain Advance Development department at the Porsche Development Center in Weissach
The optimized electric drive potentially could be used in a limited-edition super sports car.
Engineers in the Advanced Development department were able to carry out several development steps at once with the prototype. The additively manufactured alloy housing is more lightweight than a conventionally cast part, and reduces the overall weight of the drive by approximately 10%.