Rimac’s Been Supplying the Porsche 911 GTS T-Hybrid With Its Battery Pack
IAA Revelation—Next time someone sneers that your 911 shares Prius DNA, say, “Nuh uhn, it shares Bugatti Tourbillon DNA.”
Frank MarkusWriter, PhotographerManufacturerPhotographerSep 08, 2025
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It hasn’t been a secret per se. Any of us could have peeled back the various coverings over the battery pack in the Porsche 911 GTS T-Hybrid’s front trunk and we would have seen Rimac branding on the battery pack, but we never did. So it came as news to us when we visited the Rimac booth at this year’s IAA Munich auto show.
The placard accompanying the display confirmed the 1.9-kWh battery’s 60-pound mass, 400-volt architecture, and that it operates at between 270 and 453 volts over the range of its capacity. We also learned it’s able to discharge at a rate of 50 kW. The cutaway on display disclosed that the 2,170 cylindrical NMC cells are housed on two levels with indirect water/glycol cooling.
Rimac technology Porsche 911 GTS Hybrid Battery
So don’t take any guff from nay sayers pooh-poohing hybrid technology. Sure, the Toyota Prius may have popularized the concept, but we would counter that the Porche 911 GTS may have more in common with the Bugatti Tourbillon hypercar and its 8.3-liter V-16, three-motor hybrid system than it does with that climate-virtue-signaling Prius …
Rimac technology Porsche 911 GTS Hybrid Battery Placard
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Frank Markus
I started critiquing cars at age 5 by bumming rides home from church in other parishioners’ new cars. At 16 I started running parts for an Oldsmobile dealership and got hooked on the car biz. Engineering seemed the best way to make a living in it, so with two mechanical engineering degrees I joined Chrysler to work on the Neon, LH cars, and 2nd-gen minivans. Then a friend mentioned an opening for a technical editor at another car magazine, and I did the car-biz equivalent of running off to join the circus. I loved that job too until the phone rang again with what turned out to be an even better opportunity with Motor Trend. It’s nearly impossible to imagine an even better job, but I still answer the phone…
