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

The Truth About Cars

Porsche and Audi recently issued a recall that illustrates that point, as the vehicles share most of their underlying engineering and could have batteries with insufficient sealant. Impacted variants include the Taycan, Taycan 4 Cross Turismo, Taycan Turbo S, Audi e-tron GT, and RS e-tron GT. reports started trickling in.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful. Their main drawback is poor reliability, a trait they share with Lemons cars made by Toyota, Audi, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Nissan (strangely, cheap Alfa Romeos are very reliable under punitive road-racing conditions).

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Report: Tesla Readying New Model 3 Performance

The Truth About Cars

While it’s still less expensive than many competitors, the new Performance almost certainly won’t be cheap. That said, the car is still less expensive than some competitors, including vehicles from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi. Image: Tesla] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

Green Car Congress

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Audi e-fuels.

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BMW is Willing to Pay to Attract Customers from Other EV Brands

The Truth About Cars

Cars Direct reported that the BMW 2024 BEV Conquest Program includes several other brands, including Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Porsche, Rivian, and Lucid. That said, BMW’s EVs are not cheap, so the incentives should be a welcome move for hopeful buyers. Ford Mustang Mach-E and VW ID.4 4 owners can also take advantage of the deal.

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Look inside Lordstown, E-Tron Sportback range, car buyers and mpg: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

The 2020 Audi Sportback gets more miles of range. And shoppers are still efficiency-focused, even with cheap gas. Lordstown Motors shows us its mammoth plant—in Lordstown. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Tesla Model Y and BYD Atto 3 lead the way as Chinese-built electric vehicle sales soar in Australia

EV Central

While the Model Y dropped back from the incredible high of 5560 sales and second outright in June , it was still only beaten in the sales race by the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux utes and the cheap and cheerful MG ZS SUV. Add in 604 Model 3 sedan sales and Tesla claimed eighth overall in July with 3934 sales.