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Porsche and Audi Recall Almost 6,700 EVs for Insufficient Battery Sealant

The Truth About Cars

Large automakers save money by sharing platforms and engineering designs across individual brands, but the practice means that problems affecting one model tend to impact related vehicles. The problem is related to a new sealant material Porsche added to its manufacturing process in late 2022. reports started trickling in.

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

Teslarati

“Six out of ten Porsche Taycan” ever delivered have a problem with battery management that affects and damages battery cells, requires replacement of cells and batteries, and is causing vehicle fires, according to a source working at Porsche’s headquarters in Zuffenhausen, Germany. A Risky Business.

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Mercedes-AMG teases first look at its sporty electric supercar poised to rival Porsche, Lucid

Baua Electric

Shown drifting across a frozen lake during testing, the sporty Mercedes-AMG EV will rival the new +1,000 hp Porsche Taycan Turbo GT and +1,200 hp Lucid Air Sapphire. The power unit will be used in addition to a new high-performance, high-voltage battery. Mercedes-AMG is officially previewing its upcoming electric supercar.

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Alpine Says A110 Successor Will Come to United States, Outlines Expansion Plan

The Truth About Cars

Rumor has it that the vehicle will play host to a battery pack sized just shy of 80 kWh and that the engineering team is hoping to create a rival of the all-electric 718 Porsche has been developing. Battery packs may be good at keeping a vehicle’s center of gravity low. One could have also said that of Porsche in 2002.

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The Toyota FT-Se Concept Probably Isn’t the Next MR2

The Truth About Cars

Manufacturers often preview cars that are little more than design exercises that hype up the public into believing that their favorite model from the past is about to reemerge as a modern automobile. An argument could be made that electrification could be used to help keep the car cheap to operate. This is very evident.

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A Cheap Balancer and Transmission Issues

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

After talking with some engineers at HP and mulling over some ideas, I came up with the attached schematics for an inexpensive battery balancer. This one relies much more heavily on complex PIC programming and uses an off-the-shelf laptop or inkjet-printer power supply to deliver an isolated source of power for the battery charger.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

EV Central

Car design has become increasingly uniform this past decade, so it’s refreshing to see something genuinely different. Spy the back end at the wrong angle and it could be the lovechild of a Porsche 993 and Ford AU Falcon. An Ioniq 5 with the same battery and motor travels only 507km due to its blockier 0.29 Distinctive.

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