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Considering a VW Kit Car Build

DIY Electric Car

I have posted here before with a different VW kit car build which was a 72v Wilderness EV kit in a Bentley kit body roadster. Pretty straight forward and easy build. Recently I purchased another VW kit car that has from what I can tell a pretty complete set up. Considering a VW Kit Car Build.

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Modified Tesla Model S Plaid slashes lap record… accidentally

Teslarati

With their custom suspension and aero-kits, they have been pushing Tesla vehicles to their absolute limit. According to FastestLaps , the Tesla crushed its nearest competition, a highly modified Porsche 911 GT2 RS, by over a second. The Dark Helmet build is one of UP’s most track-ready vehicles they currently operate.

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Audi Applies Safari-Style Treatment to Q8 e-tron

The Truth About Cars

Rigs like the Porsche 911 Dakar and Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato get big grins and all the ink but jacked up machines like the Wilderness line at Subaru are pushing these builds well into the mainstream. Audi is dipping a toe into these muddy waters with the all-electric Q8 e-tron Edition Dakar.

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Big DEED turnout in Dayton 

Electric Auto Association

General Manager Jeffrey Pizza and EV Specialist Zach Johnson of White Allen Euro Group presented a Porsche Taycan and Audi e-tron that were very well-received. Jeffrey Pizza of White Allen Euro Group with Porsch Taycan. Perhaps the biggest surprise for the crowd was the late entry of a rare Polestar 2.

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Volkswagen to introduce Passat Plug-in hybrid “soon”; Group electrifying more than 40 more models over next few years

Green Car Congress

kWh/100 km) to the Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid (3.1 the use of the modular Baukästen (assembly kits such as the MQB, MLB or MSB, earlier post )—means that it will be possible to electrify more than 40 models over the next few years, Winterkorn said. He said that the plug-in hybrids Golf GTE (1.5

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

President Obama: Days of Building Sprawl Are Over. Open Source Civic EV Kit. Porsche 914 EV Conversion. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * The top of the page has the latest posts. Obama on cars.

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

Green Car Congress

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). It is clear that building excellent cars will not in itself be enough.

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