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Blazer EV issues, clean hydrogen rules, Prius Prime, Porsche-Audi charge cord: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Porsche and Audi are issuing recall letters for most of their plug-in vehicles, but it’s not for the vehicles themselves. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Chevy Blazer EV sales have been halted. Hydrogen rules aim to reel in the dirtier side of the hydrogen economy.

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Synthetically fueled cars can be as clean as EVs, Porsche claims

Green Car Reports

Porsche is launching electric cars, but the automaker is still looking for ways to keep internal-combustion engines from extinction. It now claims synthetic fuels could make internal-combustion cars as clean as EVs.

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Porsche Readies Self For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car…Maybe!

CleanTechnica EVs

Rumors are flying over Porsche's interest in producing a hydrogen fuel cell electric car, with green hydrogen in the mix. The post Porsche Readies Self For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car…Maybe! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Porsche Rolls Out Electric Trucks As Transport Logistics Fleet

CleanTechnica EVs

Porsche is pushing ahead with the roll-out of alternative drives in its transport logistics fleet: Together with its logistics partners, the sports car manufacturer is using six new electric HGVs (heavy good vehicle) at its Zuffenhausen, Weissach and Leipzig sites.

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Porsche Celebrates The Start Of Electromobility At Its Leipzig Factory

CleanTechnica EVs

Tuesday, May 14, Porsche celebrated the official start of electromobility at its production site in Saxony. In recent years, the sports car manufacturer has invested around 600 million euros in expanding the factory in order to produce the electric Macan here. Additions to the factory have included a new body.

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Porsche simulates hydrogen V8 for virtual Nordschleife run; 440 kW, 261 km/h, near-zero NOx

Green Car Congress

In a recent simulation study reported in Porsche Engineering Magazine , Porsche Engineering examined the potential of hydrogen combustion engines. For the passenger car sector, this is insufficient, said Vincenzo Bevilacqua, Senior Expert Engine Simulation at Porsche Engineering. Source: Porsche.

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Used Car of the Day: 2011 Porsche Cayenne

The Truth About Cars

The point of this feature, since it appears lost on some of you, is to pick out interesting/quirky cars. We don't care if the car is in good quality or not, or if the price is right -- a competing site once had a feature about just that -- or anything like that. A manual-transmission 2011 Porsche Cayenne strikes me as unusual.

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