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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

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.& With this in mind, Porsche’s CFO was recently quoted as saying European combustion bans will probably need to be delayed and there’s good reason to believe him.& However, Porsche Chief Financial Officer Lutz Meschke was quoted by Automotive News on Thursday casting some doubts.&

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Why manual transmissions are still popular in India amid rush for automatics

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Automatic transmission commands a higher cost India is known as a highly price-sensitive market and the complexity related to automatic transmissions makes it expensive for the automakers to develop and equip the mass market models with dual-pedal technology. Automatic transmissions are complex in their construction compared to manual ones.

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June 2023 – Tesla Model Y is again the bestseller in Norway

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Plugless vehicles will continue to be sold in Norway until plugin options — most likely BEVs — appear in all vehicle segments, and at affordable price points. The only top 20 model to put in a personal-best performance was the MG4, with 242 units, and gaining 15th spot, a new high. The third place goes to the Skoda Enyaq.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. With rising gasoline prices, I believe the demand for freeway capable electric vehicles is going to increase over the next few years.

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Lotus is betting its future on the electric sports car, can it deliver?

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Claim as commenters on the internet may that their E36 BMW M3 or 997 Porsche 911 was designed perfectly from the factory and never “needed” to be improved, that sentiment derives from well-meaning but ultimately unhelpful nostalgia. Sure, if you want to produce in handmade quantities and demand handmade prices. Only 130 will be built.

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Owners Love This Electric Automaker, and it's Not Tesla

The Truth About Cars

The latest data from Consumer Reports reveals the top five brands that have achieved the highest owner satisfaction scores, indicating a strong likelihood of customers purchasing the same brand again. The ratings for specific factors were then assigned based on the proportion of owners who expressed a high level of satisfaction.

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Transmission Removed!

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

This was a big evening of figuring out how to remove the transmission with one person. I'm selling the engine to someone in Corvallis and they'll get this great clutch since I've already purchased a new one as a replacement. That'll knock off a buck or two off the selling price. Here is the removed transmission.

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