Pöhlmann KG

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Pöhlmann KG
legal form Limited partnership
founding 1980
resolution 1986 or 1988
Seat Kulmbach , Germany
management Erich Pöhlmann
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Pöhlmann EL from 1986 in the Deutsches Museum , 2007
Pöhlmann EL "Solar" from 1984
short version

The Pöhlmann KG was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The engineer Erich Pöhlmann had already converted a BMW Isetta to an electric drive in the 1970s . In 1981 he founded in Kulmbach , the company Pöhlmann Application Engineering GmbH & Co KG u. a. for the development of electric cars . The cooperation with the energy supply group RWE began in the year the company was founded . Initially, four smaller vehicles, including two with hybrid drives , were built. In August 1983, the Pöhlmann EL, a larger, purely electrically operated variant was presented. A Pöhlmann EL won the first Formula E Grand Prix in Switzerland in 1986.

With the King-Car , an electric tricycle was developed for the transport of people and loads, an electric bicycle, an electric Kettcar for children and in 1982 a solar cooker for use in Africa. At the end of the 1980s, the company converted two buses to practical use with electric drives.

The brand name was Pöhlmann . Production ended in 1986 or 1988. A total of 29 or around 30 vehicles were built, including 14 Pöhlmann EL models .

Erich Pöhlmann had an accident in 2008 at the age of 76 with his sailing yacht on the high seas near New Zealand and has since disappeared without a trace.

vehicles

Each of the two electric motors in a vehicle drove a rear wheel. In the hybrid model, a gasoline engine operated the heating and, in the case of empty batteries, provided the drive. The body was made of plastic , had wing doors and offered space for two people. The vehicle length was 332 cm.

Pöhlmann EL

Most of the EL models had a plastic-reinforced fiberglass body. The vehicle took eight hours to charge and it had a range of 120 km. Its top speed was 120 km / h, the maximum power 24 kW. The prototype had passed the crash test without any problems. The sales price of the EL was 108,000 DM. The "Solar" variant presented in 1984 was equipped with glued-on solar cells that permanently recharged the lead battery (capacity: 160 Ah) with 140 W. For the first time, the rear axle differential was replaced by the use of two DC motors that transmitted different speeds when cornering.

The RWE subsidiary Innogy confirms that the Pöhlmann EL has been developed to market maturity. However, there was no apparent interest on the part of the auto industry. In 1985 RWE withdrew from development because after a change in the board of directors, electric cars did not correspond to the company's "business model".

Whereabouts

One copy of the Pöhlmann EL is in the Fichtelberg Automobile Museum and one in the Recklinghausen Electricity Museum , and another one went to Mitsubishi in Japan.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Pöhlmann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  2. ↑ The first electric car came from Kulmbach at nordbayerischer-kurier.de on August 9, 2017, accessed on November 17, 2017
  3. ↑ Patent search at google.de/patents, accessed on November 17, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d e Industry blocked electric cars in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from November 17, 2017, p. 26.
  5. ↑ Pöhlmann at traumautoarchiv.de, accessed on November 17, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  7. ↑ Pöhlmann EL Solar at traumautoarchiv.de, accessed on November 17, 2017