Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 6, 2017
With Porsche promising ultra-fast charging for its Mission E electric car, Honda isn’t going to let the German automaker keeps its 15 minutes of charging fame. Honda aims to develop cars that can grab enough juice from the grid for 240 kilometers (150 miles) of range in 15 minutes flat.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 27, 2018
Porsche is getting its dealerships on board with selling electric cars, in preparation for its upcoming Mission E electric sedan, by insisting that each of the company's 189 U.S dealerships install fast charger with enough juice to charge the car's big, 300-mile battery to substantially full in just over 20 minutes.
Cars That Think
MARCH 30, 2023
When it’s time to stop, the Strike can absorb Level 3 juice at up to 120 kilowatts. Yet the bike still slurps juice nearly four times faster than the Harley’s 3.3-kilowatt The company posted a YouTube video pitting its bike’s charging time against a Harley-Davidson Live Wire and Zero Motorcycle’s SR/S.
EV Central
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Porsche’s entry-level Taycan EV has less power, performance and equipment, but could the single motor rear-drive option be all you really need? And Porsche – being Porsche – couldn’t resist dropping another $40K or so on our tester. 2022 Porsche Taycan RWD with almost $40k of added options.
Cars That Think
APRIL 4, 2022
The 800-volt architecture doubles Tesla’s 400 V, matches the six-figure Porsche Taycan, and is within sight of the Lucid’s industry-leading 900 V. Between bitter ambient temperatures and some snafus, that charger was pushing juice at a sharply reduced, roughly 45-kW rate—exactly one-sixth the Hyundai’s maximum 270-kW rate.
The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The cars are to be cheaper dupes of the very expensive “rally spec” production cars from the likes of Lamborghini (Huracan Sterrato), Porsche (911 Dakar), and Morgan (CXT). This special is now half over, but already long out of juice. It rips the roof off, but Hammond can only feign surprise.
Clean Fleet Report
MARCH 11, 2023
Since it was not a Level 2 charger, I knew it would not gain much juice overnight. On the last day I knew I would have to get a full charge to make it back to Heathrow and leave it with enough juice for the driver who would collect it. Currently the only other cars with an 800-volt systems are the Porsche Taycan and Audi E-Tron GT.
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