Enlarge / A pack of GT cars at the beginning of the 2021 12 Hours of Sebring. If you needed proof of sportscar racing being too complicated for the casual fan, consider the fact that the white #79 Porsche 911 RSR is actually radically different from the blue #16 Porsche 911 GT3 R right next […]
Ford built the F-100 Eluminator to show off its new Mustang Mach-E-derived electric crate motors. (credit: Ford) Las Vegas is currently hosting its annual visit by SEMA, the aftermarket automotive trade show. Hot rods and custom cars have always been a SEMA thing, but these days there’s no guarantee you’ll find a brawny V8 or […]
Enlarge / Everyone loves a good time machine, including Porsche. The company made a short video to celebrate reaching a charging capacity milestone in the US and Europe. (credit: Porsche) Many of the electric vehicles we’ve been waiting for are finally starting to appear on our roads. But wide adoption of EVs depends on more […]
Enlarge / 70 percent of the cars Porsche has ever built are still on the road. Since it wants to keep it that way, its developing a synthetic fuel that emits 90 percent less CO2 than gasoline derived from fossil fuels. (credit: Porsche) Even with the best will in the world, it will be many […]
[credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] It’s been almost two years since I first met the Porsche Taycan, the stylish and swift electric vehicle that ticks all the right boxes. Since then, withdrawal has set in. I’ve been desperate for another fix of this EV that still feels like the happy result of a transporter accident involving […]
Enlarge / This sketch is all we’ve seen of Porsche’s forthcoming LMDh hybrid racer. But now we know that when it starts racing in 2023, it will be run by Team Penske. (credit: Porsche) In 2021, there is a real buzz building in the world of sports car racing. After many years of running incompatible […]
Enlarge / VW Group CEO Herbert Diess presents VW’s strategy for the next decade. (credit: Volkswagen Group) On Tuesday, Volkswagen Group revealed its new strategy for the coming decade . Under the tag line “New Auto, ” VW Group CEO Herbert Diess laid out how the company plans to increase profitability and streamline the operations […]
Enlarge / The Bugatti Chiron will be joined by new electrified models. (credit: Bugatti) For almost a year, a rumor has been circulating that Volkswagen Group plans to offload Bugatti to Croatian electric vehicle specialists Rimac. That rumor turns out to be true: on Monday Porsche and Rimac revealed that they are forming a new […]
Enlarge / Porsche plans to first use these new silicon anode cells in motorsports, but we don’t know where that will be yet, since Formula E and LMDh will both require a spec battery. This car is the Porsche 920 concept from 2020. (credit: Porsche) Porsche is setting up a new factory for battery cells, […]
Pardon the pun, but the floodgates have really opened on this divorce… It’s been a little over a month since Bill and Melinda Gates announced the end of their marriage, and we’ve gone from the couple reportedly keeping things amicable for the sake of their children winning a Nobel Prize, to a WHOLE lot of […]