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Blackpink’s Jennie and Porsche team up again, this time for charity [Photos]

Teslarati

Blackpink’s Jennie is teaming up with Porsche again to raise funds for charity. Porsche plans to auction off another version of the Jennie Ruby Jane Taycan, designed by the Blackpink member. Porsche has been contributing to Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation since 2017. kWh, and a net battery capacity of 83.7

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Tesla India teams reassigned to other Asia-Pacific markets

Teslarati

The team in India includes Sami Jain, who previously worked for Porsche on the legacy automaker’s electrification effort. Tesla shifted its other workers from India to focus on the APAC unit, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. . The Tesla India team was reassigned to Asia-Pacific (APAC) and other markets.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

Green Car Congress

Seven of the top 10 brands in this year’s reliability rankings are from Japan and South Korea, including Subaru, Kia, Infiniti, and Hyundai. Three other brands, Porsche, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz, finished midpack. Porsche bucks the trend in this group, rising two places to number 11. Volvo finished last overall.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Plug-in models that will be fighting for market share include the BMW i8 and i3, the Audi e-tron, the Cadillac ELR, the Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive, and the Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid. Germany, the United Kingdom, several Nordic countries, Japan, and South Korea are continuing to pursue their hydrogen infrastructure roadmaps.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

EV Central

Spy the back end at the wrong angle and it could be the lovechild of a Porsche 993 and Ford AU Falcon. We sampled Hyundai’s new Ioniq 6 ‘Electrified Streamliner’ (not a sedan, Hyundai insists) in South Korea ahead of its early 2023 Australian arrival. Catch it on a good angle and it’s bloody gorgeous.

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3 Scenarios That Would Make An EV Ineligible For the Federal EV Tax Credit

EV Adoption

EVs assembled in a foreign country — whether Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, South Korea or elsewhere — would not be eligible for any level of tax credit. One interesting affect of the MSRP cap is that some OEMs may move up launch dates of their lower-priced trims if that brings the model underneath the applicable MSRP cap.

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Review: 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N enthusiast EV shows it’s worth the wait

Baua Electric

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Hyundai could have gone the Porsche Taycan route and opted for a two-speed transmission, but again, it’s looking to build a bridge for ICE enthusiasts to cross over to The Democratic Republic of EVs. Sure, I’m no Max Verstappen, but my second session went by much quicker than the first, and it was much more fun to boot.

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