Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2023
Porsche and the Frauscher Shipyard in Austria are developing an electric yacht—the Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air—that is intended to set standards on the water with its typical Porsche E-Performance. The Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air is based on the Frauscher 858 Fantom Air daycruiser, the 8.67-meter
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2020
The company will start with an allocation of production that is distributed between itself and several Tier One sub-contractors in order to expedite the manufacturing ramp rate and delivery of motors to early customers. Linear Labs is expecting to manufacture and deliver at least 100,000 M200 motors by the end of 2021.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 6, 2022
The strategic group of investors consists of automotive venture capital from BMW i Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Porsche Ventures—alongside Airbus Ventures, Generali, and existing investors—collectively adding new competencies to help fuel Bcomp’s growth. Starting with the iFE.20
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JULY 1, 2007
The instructions for the AC kit tell you to slide the motor speed control box through the two-inch hole that was cut in the wall between the engine compartment and the rear luggage compartment. In my haste, I added a computer grommet to the hole which made it just a bit too small to slide the motor control box through. It did not.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
AUGUST 5, 2007
Shifting was a real pain on city streets since the electric motor changes RPM very quickly during acceleration or regeneration. After analyzing the AC controller logs, it turns out that I only took the motor up to 3000 RPM and it is spec'ed at 12000, so maybe I'll try a lower gear next time to get more torque at the wheels.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 12, 2021
How about two electric motors, one each for the front and rear wheels, with the front motor upgraded for increased performance. Ford’s system has no steering wheel-mounted paddles to apply motor braking, and since the driver cannot adjust the amount of braking, the computer gets to do the work. Either choice will not be wrong.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 21, 2023
Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD Exceptional All-Electric Luxury Sedan Lucid Motors invited the automotive media to California to drive the all-new 2023 Air Touring , one of the sedan offerings from Lucid. The Air Touring does not come with a battery heater that warms the battery to a temperature for a faster and higher charge.
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