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Porsche opens new plant for eight-cylinder engines; digitalization and data management; V8s for all VW Group brands

Green Car Congress

Porsche has officially dedicated a new engine plant for eight-cylinder engines. At full plant utilization produces around 200 eight-cylinder V-engines daily. Porsche’s new engine plant will also contribute towards synergies within the Volkswagen Group. The assembly of a new engine begins every 3.5

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Volkswagen completes engineering campus expansion project in California; enhanced focus on EV testing and analysis

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The Volkswagen Group Test Center California has finished an expansion project that furthers the state-of-the-art development center’s capabilities and encompasses additional entities within the company under a new name—the Oxnard Engineering Campus.

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Quick drive of the Passat HyMotion hydrogen fuel cell hybrid

Green Car Congress

The concept car has high-voltage 1.1 The control software for the HyMotion is more akin to that of a combustion-engined hybrid than that of a battery-electric vehicle as it entails more balancing between primary power source (fuel cell or engine) and the secondary (Li-ion battery). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Events and shows related to electric vehicles in 2023 around the world

Electric Vehicles India

The dynamic concept showcases electric vehicles. World of e-mobility – all about alternative drives and new mobility concepts from exhibitors in the fields of e-bikes, e-scooters, electric and hybrid vehicles, charging technology, and energy supply. The venue is near the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Bosch, and Mahle.

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Polestar 5 will be brand’s top model from 2025

EV Central

Polestar engineers say the bonded construction delivers greater stiffness than other methods, like spot-welding and riveting. This isn’t just a happy coincidence, it’s smart engineering. Polestar aims to make the 5 a performance and handling rival for Porsche models like the brilliant Taycan EV and the Panamera.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Early Neural Networks Hoff liked the engineering courses at Rensselaer, but not the narrow focus of the college itself. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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We are starting with optimizing our conventional drive trains—the TDI diesel engines, the TSI engines, the DSG transmission, all of those technologies have helped us to lower our fuel consumption a lot. Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). More on this below.). TSI, the 2.0

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