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Originally Posted by Murf the Surf
I'm not an engineer and generally live by a few simple rules and mostly common sense. I would think that adding this much complexity might defeat any advantage. Having said that I suspect the engineers at Porsche have done some maths on this thus the patent application.
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It's also not uncommon for companies in certain segments to patent every and anything under the sun they can. It's not so much about future production plans, but more about winning the "patent war". Often times they will patent stuff they are not serious at all about. But every once and a while one of those ideas will be fruitful in the future with further development.