Porsche Plans In Parlous Peril
The market value of Porsche has dropped by half since its peak In the spring of 2023 as customers cool on its battery electric cars.
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These Automakers Are Electrifying Fastest In USA — New Report
We’ve looked at the top selling electric vehicles and top selling EV brands in the United States. We’ve looked at overall auto industry sales trends in the US. We’ve looked at how much more electric vehicles have grown compared to fossil fuel vehicles (which have shrunk). Now, let’s complete this … [continued]
Northvolt Bankruptcy May Delay Porsche And Audi Electric Models
Porsche is on the back foot after Northvolt filed for bankruptcy recently and is facing a steep decline in sales in China,
Porsche Plants A Big Wet Kiss On The Internal Combustion Engine
Plug-in hybrids are all the rage in the world of automobile manufacturing today. Porsche is one company planning to go the PHEV route.
Top Automakers in US for Share of Their Sales Being Electric — Charts
After three other US auto market reports for the 2nd quarter of 2024, I’m on to the last one, and it’s my favorite one. This one looks at the share of different auto brands’ and auto groups’ sales that are electric*. This report is more fleshed out than ever this … [continued]
HONGQI & The Paris Motor Show, 40 More Hyper-Fast Chargers, Good News for High-Speed Rail…
Electrify Canada has added more than 40 individual Hyper-Fast chargers in Québec and Nova Scotia. The all-new Macan Electric is now part of the charging agreement between Electrify America and Porsche Cars North America, which has been extended. Owners of the Macan Electric will receive complimentary 30-minute charging sessions for … [continued]
Chery’s iCar 03 and the BYD Seal amongst Growing Number of EVs on Display at…
The 2024 edition of the South African Festival of Motoring was recently held at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg. What stood out for me was the increasing number of electric vehicles on show as well as available for test drives. I really like these exhibitions. These kinds of exhibitions … [continued]
Second Life Concept: How Used Taycan Batteries Became An Energy Storage System for the Leipzig…
It’s the size of almost two basketball courts and consists of 4,400 battery modules: the new battery storage system to supply the Porsche Plant Leipzig with power. The extraordinary thing is that this stationary energy storage system was built out of used Taycan batteries. They were taken from preseries and … [continued]
EV Charging Initiatives in Vietnam & Utah, 1.5-GW Offshore Wind Farm — Cleantech News Roundup
The last few days have shown that EV charging is becoming the new normal, with progress being made on a daily basis, all throughout the world. As one example, Vietnam will be getting an extensive EV charging network courtesy of Porsche and Charge+. On the other side of the world, … [continued]
Polyphase Wireless Power Transfer System Achieves 270-kilowatt Charge, Sets Another World Record for Electric Light-Duty…
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration used a Porsche Taycan and was conducted in collaboration with Volkswagen Group of America using the ORNL-developed polyphase wireless charging system. The achievement surpasses ORNL’s … [continued]
