I think they'd have preferred the Tiger P, that thing was bonkers with its electric drives :s
the Tiger P is a great example of a concept outrunning the material capability of a civilization. The reason it suffered from fires and didn't work, was that it was, at the time, literally impossible to build electric motors that could do what Porsche wanted to do with them, and even generators were bulkier and heavier than they would be for the same output even ten years later. Hell, it' might be impossible with TODAY'S electric motor technology, but it's MORE possible today, than it was in 1940-something with the state of electrical engineering and materials science that was available then, vs. now.
He had a terrific concept, but the materials and the knowledge to make it happen weren't there at the time.