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Patrick Grimmel – expert for product and transportation design

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2011 - 2016 | Senior Transportation Designer at Tesla, California USA

2009 - 2011 | Freelance Transportation Designer & Assistant Professor at Folkwang University

2005 - 2009 | Transportation Designer at KISKA

2004 | Interior Design at AUDI

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Tesla Model 3 | Initial Lead Interior Designer

„A horizontal screen layout was the best solution for the new car. Elon liked it, too“

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After winning the internal design competition for the interior design of Tesla’s most important BEV to date, Patrick took over the initial design lead for the Model 3 showcar interior.

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With the goal in mind to create the most advanced and comfortable seats of any production car to date, Patrick set out to design the first, second and third row seats for the Model X production car, with the monopost-mounted second row seats being the world’s first car seat of this kind.

Tesla Model X - Lead Designer Seats

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Patrick was part of a small group of Tesla designers who got to work on the design of the exterior as well as the interior of the SpaceX Dragon. While the interior design was eventually outsourced to an external agency, Patrick saw his exterior design proposal move to production.

SpaceX Dragon | Lead Exterior Designer

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Patrick has his design sketches featured in Elon Musk’s biography „Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future“.

SpaceX Hyperloop | Initial Exterior Design Proposals

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A collaborative design project between Carolin, Patrick and the design team from kucherthusbass.de for their client Bosch eBike Systems. The task was to design a new drivetrain including battery and control unit for one of the key players in the booming global electric bicycle market.

Bosch eBike Systems | Product Design

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Patrick lent his design expertise once more to Kiska, in order to help them design the then new Husaberg, which would later on revive the range of Husqvarna bikes and ultimately become the most successful revival of a heritage motorcycle brand of the recent past.

Husaberg FE ’13 | Transportation Design

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This project as a contractor for Lavalabs with their client Ferchau gave Patrick the opportunity to display his design skills in both automotive exterior and interior design.

Ferchau Concept Car | Exterior & Interior Design

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This sketch was created as a visualization demo as part of a Photoshop rendering class for one of Patrick’s teaching stints at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

VW Crafter | Interior Design