{"id":5268,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:59","slug":"road-and-track-tests-battery-powered-e-ruf-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5268","title":{"rendered":"Road and Track tests battery-powered E-Ruf 911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We only heard about the latest modified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/\">Porsche<\/a> from Ruf about a week and a half ago when the tuner unveiled its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/10\/10\/rufs-electric-porsche-breaks-cover\/\">E-Ruf<\/a> via press release. Apparently we weren&#x27;t the first to learn of the all-electric 911, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/article.asp?section_id=2&#038;article_id=7182\">Road &#038; Track<\/a> has already driven it and just published its first impressions, including details about the car&#x27;s inner workings that were previously unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most Ruf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/\">Porsches<\/a>, the E-Ruf hasn&#x27;t had its internal combustion engine boosted to within an inch of its life. It doesn&#x27;t even have an ICE. Instead, the staff in Germany have ripped out the boxer 6-cylinder, back seat and fuel tank. The back seat area and front trunk have been stuffed full of lithium-ion batteries and an electric motor&#x27;s been bolted to the stock 6-speed gearbox. Turns out that the E-Ruf is very different from other high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">EVs<\/a> like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tesla\/roadster\/\">Tesla Roadster<\/a> in some interesting ways, but you&#x27;ll have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/article.asp?section_id=2&#038;article_id=7182\">click through<\/a> to Road and Track to find out exactly why and what it means for the future of EVs.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/10\/21\/battery-powered-e-ruf-911-tested-by-road-and-track\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-10-21T16:05:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We only heard about the latest modified Porsche from Ruf about a week and a half ago when the tuner unveiled its new E-Ruf via press release. Apparently we weren&#x27;t the first to learn of the all-electric 911, as Road &#038; Track has already driven it and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}