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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.

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EV ride-hailer BluSmart seeks USD 300 mn to expand car fleet – ET Auto

Baua Electric

BluSmart will launch in Dubai next month with about 100 Audi EVs, and plans to run 300 Audi and Tesla Inc. Cheap rides, cheap quality, cheap service and cheap pricing are not our forte.” vehicles there by December, according to Goyal. While Uber and SoftBank Group Corp.-backed

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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. Earlier post.).

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

Teslarati

Tesla offered to help Porsche with battery management through Audi contacts years ago, but Porsche management at the time rejected any external help, saying it could handle everything internally, the source noted. Instead, the company is reportedly hiding the problem for cost and reputational reasons, the source stated.

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China’s BYD, GWM and MG on notice: Volkswagen previews its $30,000 entry-level electric car that will be here by 2027 and promises it will stun you with its looks, tech, design and quality

EV Central

Sharing costs and increasing economies of scale, it’s thought Skoda, SEAT, Cupra and even Audi will all have their ove version of the entry-EV. A similar strategy has already been taken with the production version of the 2025 Volkswagen ID.2all

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Audi A5 Cabriolet road test

Green Cars News

Two years on, Audi has added a Cabriolet variant to the A5 line-up, with the intention that it will replace the outgoing A4 Cabrio. Audi A5 Cabriolet lease prices Audi A5 Cabriolet new and nearly new cars. Audi A5 Cabriolet lease prices Audi A5 Cabriolet new and nearly new cars. Running costs won’t be cheap either.

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Tesla Model Y wins UK bestseller spot in March

Push EVs

HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. Audi rounded out the top three spots. The remaining ranks are more closely distributed, with MG and Audi in 2nd and 3rd spots.

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