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Seven-day test: 2024 Audi RS e-tron GT, now with $100,000 price cut?

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Cheapest is at a Tasmanian Audi dealer showing just 495km – it may have only been charged once in its short life. Complicating matters is Audi last month teasing prototypes of a facelifted 2025 e-tron GT , likely to be spearheaded by a new Performance version based on the ludicrous 815kW/1340Nm Porsche Taycan Turbo GT.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

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Spy the back end at the wrong angle and it could be the lovechild of a Porsche 993 and Ford AU Falcon. Even if you’re not taken by its looks, the Ioniq 6’s range makes headlines. When the RWD version on 18-inch wheels arrives it will offer 614km (WLTP) between charges. It’s striking in the metal. Distinctive.

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Track test: Hyundai’s incredible RN22e EV

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Many are dazzlingly fast in a straight line – proper sub-3 seconds to 100km/h stuff – and their low centre of gravity and impressive chassis tunes (see the Porsche Taycan and T esla Model 3 Performance for evidence) can bring physics-defying cornering. And by God the way speed builds once through the apex is like a video game.

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Honda reveals radical new electric Saloon concept at CES 2024 | Autocar Professional

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Its rakish silhouette stems from Honda’s desire for “lower and wider vehicles”, said Minami, but it has not been conceived as a dedicated sporting EV to rival the likes of the Porsche Taycan. They will be capable of charging from 10-80% capacity in between 10 and 15 minutes.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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Until recently, the four main modular toolkits (modularen Baukästen) of the Group were: the MQB (transverse, driven by the Volkswagen brand); the MLB (longitudinal, driven by the Audi brand); the MSB (standard drive, driven by Porsche); and the NSF (New Small Family). Battery costs are making significant improvements. Earlier post.)

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Tesla To Offer Auto Leases

Revenge of the Electric Car

‘Starting Wednesday, the 2010 Roadster, which competes against exotic sport cars like the Porsche 911, will be available on a three-year, 30,000-mile lease based on the manufacturer’s price of $111,005, Tesla said. cars like the Porsche 911, will be available on a three-year, 30,000-mile. powers a battery pack in the trunk.

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

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The e-Golf (“Das e-Auto” earlier post ), the Volkswagen brand’s second series production battery-electric vehicle after the e-up!, Put another way, Volkswagen’s goal, based on its strategic approach, is for the e-Golf to deliver the performance and handling of a Golf which happens to have a battery-electric powertrain. The e-Golf.

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