Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

In later generations, electric vehicles are nothing new.

But what is little known is that as early as 1897, Ferdinand Porsche thought that if a car was powered by electricity, it would be an ideal means of transportation with no noise or smoke.

He used his design talent to create the "direct drive" structure, which installed the motor directly on the wheel to replace the chain drive structure at the time and improve transmission efficiency. In 1899, the first Porsche electric car - "Loner-Porsche No. 1" was built.

The biggest feature of this electric car is that each of the two front wheels is equipped with an in-wheel motor. Each in-wheel motor can provide a power output of nearly 3 horsepower (about 2 kilowatts) and adopts the same shape as a horse-drawn carriage. However, due to the low energy density of the battery at that time, the 678-ton lead-acid battery limited its performance. Therefore, the car's top speed was only 14 kilometers per hour, and it could only run about 50 kilometers on a full charge.

In 1900, Porsche sent this car to the Paris Exposition for display, where it stole the show and won a grand prize. Porsche himself is also revered as the "Father of Electric Vehicles."

But at that time, the best way to test the performance of a car was to participate in competitions. The first pure electric car in human history did not receive much recognition. Therefore, Porsche quickly improved the design. He added a set of in-wheel motors to the rear wheels to propel the vehicle forward with four in-wheel motors. This was also the world's first car with a four-wheel drive system, and later reached a speed of 35 km/h. miles (56 km) set an Austrian car speed record.

Although four-wheel drive is faster, it also means that the weight of the battery pack increases to 8 tons. The problem of short driving range has become its biggest weakness. To this end, Porsche came up with the wonderful idea of ​​installing an internal combustion engine on the body to charge the battery (not directly providing power), and then using four wheel hub motors to propel the vehicle. This is also the prototype of a hybrid vehicle (Hybrid), which is nearly a century ahead of the first-generation Toyota Prius (gasoline-electric hybrid model) in 1997.

Dr. Porsche continued to be active in the automotive field until the late 1930s.

The world has entered an unprecedented dark period, and Dr. Porsche has not been idle. Instead, his imagination has become wider. The reason is probably because there are more resources to mobilize (Porsche and Mustache have a very good personal relationship). He gave full play to his expertise and built an electric tank this time. Yes, you heard it right, it is an electric tank.

As the inventor of in-wheel motors and hybrid systems, he moved this set of things directly to the VK4501P tank. This tank uses two Porsche Type 101/1 air-cooled engines to generate electricity. The electricity is first stored in the battery and then drives two 275kW electric motors. . The engine and electric motor are both rear-mounted layouts, without a gearbox. The electric motor is directly connected to the driving wheel, so the driving wheel is at the rear (German tanks of the same period had the engine at the rear, the gearbox in the front, and the driving wheel in the front).

Because Porsche's power system is too "advanced", it suffers from constant failures. It is said that during the test trip to Rastenburg in 1942, after unloading the car from the train station, the VK4501P stumbled during the 11km journey to the test site and almost missed the important event (although Henschel's VK4501H was not much better).

The biggest problem of the "Porsche Tiger" is the electric system. The power system and control system have frequent failures, and the fuel consumption is also horribly high, with fuel consumption as high as 140 liters per 100 kilometers.

In the end, the "Porsche Tiger" lost the bidding to the "Henschel Tiger", and dozens of chassis that had been manufactured were transformed into Ferdinand tank destroyers. The only complete "Porsche Tiger" prototype was assigned to the 653rd Tank Destroyer Battalion as a command vehicle, because the battalion was equipped with the same chassis of Ferdinand tank destroyers, and the maintenance personnel were familiar with the temperament of these "Electric Tigers".

At the end of World War II, Porsche finally went crazy with Mustache and created a real doomsday chariot: the Maus.

Probably Dr. Porsche also knew that this was the last bit of madness, so he let it go completely. The Mouse also uses electric drive. The experimental vehicle uses a gasoline engine and a diesel engine to generate electricity respectively. The experimental vehicle using a Mercedes-Benz gasoline engine can run at 25km/h, while the production version is planned to use a more powerful Mercedes-Benz 1800 horsepower engine. The vehicle speed is said to be able to reach 38km/h. h. Imagine a 200-ton lump of iron moving at the speed of a delivery boy...

Yannick was afraid that the Soviet Union would not be able to build one, so he not only handed over the design drawings of the Maus tank, but also the full set of gasoline-electric drive design drawings to Natasha.

It seemed that the Soviets did a pretty good job of keeping it secret. Only now did he know that the Soviets had actually built that thing. He somewhat admired the Soviet engineers.

Rundstedt asked. "The Finnish defenses won't be breached, right?"

Yannick said disapprovingly. "I'm a little doubtful whether that tank can reach the defense line safely." You know that the 45-year-old Mouse in the original time and space has not been perfected, and was destroyed by his own people without even going on the battlefield. He does not believe that in the past The Soviets had the industrial strength to build a perfect Maus tank.

Rundstedt said worriedly. "Will the Soviets mass-produce this super tank?"

Yannick smiled. "Don't worry, Marshal. I hope they can mass-produce them. It's best to build hundreds or thousands of them."

The Maus looks quite powerful, but there are many opponents in the original time and space who can penetrate the Maus tanks.

There are several models in the United States alone.

For example, the famous Pershing, a 90mm M3 tank gun fired the 1945 T30E16 (i.e. M304) HVAP, with a 0-degree penetration of 254mm at 1,000 yards; in addition to it, there is also the 90mm T15E2 tank gun used by the T26E4 Super Pershing and the T32 heavy tank. Emit T44APCR. The penetration depth at 30 degrees is about 221mm at 1000 meters, and about 302mm at 0 degrees. It can completely penetrate the front of the Maus turret at 1000 meters.

There are also M6A2E1 heavy tanks, T29 heavy tanks, T28 super heavy tanks, T30 heavy tanks, T34 heavy tanks, etc., which can penetrate the Maus armor at long distances.

There is also the BL-10 anti-tank gun used by the Soviet Union's ISU-152-2, which fires APCBC and has a penetration depth of 240 mm at 30 degrees at 100 meters (Maozi's default is 30 degrees).

In addition, the 88 mm Pak (or KwK) 43 used by Germany's Rhino, King Tiger, Cheetah, Ferdinand, etc. launches 40/43 APCR and has a penetration depth of 237 mm at 100 meters. According to the armor quality of the Soviet army, it should also be Can penetrate.

It's a pity that the 88mm gun is not supported this time, otherwise it can be verified.

"But just in case, we'd better support them again." There's no need to send cannons or anything like that to support Finland with a few napalm bombs.

Whether it is feasible to use napalm against tanks is an interesting question.

The instantaneous high temperature of napalm bombs reached 2500 degrees. During World War II, most tanks used steel plates as the main material. The melting point of ordinary steel is around 1500 degrees Celsius. At such temperatures, I am afraid that except for tungsten alloy and depleted uranium armor, most of the metal components of tank equipment will be deformed or damaged to varying degrees under such high temperatures and pressures.

Moreover, according to the thermal conductivity of metal, a high temperature of 2,500 degrees is transmitted to the internal space. Even a conductivity of 1% is enough for the occupants to bear.