Ten long years ago Porsche purchased the 1700 acre Nardò Technical Center in the Apulia region of Italy. In all that time, the brand has used the track to extreme benefit, testing, validating, and developing its cars there for high speed deployment of intelligent and connected features. It's a subtle change from what the track was used for in the …
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Porsche buys $100M stake in battery advancing Group14 Technologies
As part of Porsche's ongoing plans to grow its electric car development and increase investment in battery technology which would make EVs more viable in the future, the company's investment arm has headed up a Series C funding round for Group14 Technologies in Washington State. Porsche will inject 100 million dollars into the company as part of …
Continue to the full articlePorsche sees Q1 growth in Europe despite supply chain hold ups
In a time when basically every automobile manufacturer in the world is having poor quarter after poor quarter, Porsche managed to salvage a pretty decent one from Q1 of 2022 by focusing on its home market and getting cars out wherever it could. In the world we live in today, the cost of shipping things overseas is prohibitively expensive, supply …
Continue to the full articleSupply chain and transit issues stymie Porsche Cars North America Q1 sales
2021 served as Porsche Cars North America's best sales year in history on record, and the company was optimistic that 2022 would continue that upward trend. With the news that the company only managed to deliver 13,042 new vehicles to customers in the first quarter of 2022, it doesn't seem like breaking that record this year is possible. None of …
Continue to the full articlePorsche aims for 80 percent of its new cars to be electric by 2030
Last fall we first reported that Porsche was working on an all-electric replacement for the current-gen 718 Boxster and Cayman sports cars. It sure seems like the Mission R concept unveiled last year is going to be more or less the formula for the new EV sports car from Porsche, likely sharing much of its powertrain and charging infrastructure with …
Continue to the full articlePorsche legend Vic Elford has died at 86
Sports car, rally, Formula One, and endurance racing legend Quick Vic Elford passed away on Sunday, March 13th. Aged 86, the motorsport phenom succumbed to his prostate cancer after over a year of battling with the vicious disease. Elford touched many Porsche fans' lives over the decades, as he remained a life-long ambassador for the brand with …
Continue to the full articlePorsche and Pixar team up once again to give Sally Carrera a makeover
It's been twenty years since the original Pixar's Cars animated film was released in theaters, and thus twenty years since the world was first introduced to Lightning McQueen's love interest Sally Carrera. The delicate blue 996-based character, voiced by Bonnie Hunt, was an instant Porsche movie icon. All these years later, Porsche is again working …
Continue to the full articlePorsche may pause all production due to supply chain issues caused by war in Ukraine
Last week Porsche confirmed that the vehicles produced on its Leipzig assembly line, namely the Macan and Panamera, would be paused due to a lack of wire harnesses. The supplier for Porsche's wire harnesses is located in the Ukraine, and if you've been paying attention to the news you know that things aren't going to plan in that part of the world …
Continue to the full articlePorsche halts production of Macan and Panamera due to war in Ukraine
One of the knock-on effects of international warfare in the modern world we live in happens to be delays in large supply chains that result in closing of factories and stalling of production lines. Obviously the world is a worse place for the needless deaths and the destruction that results from war, we do not wish to diminish the horrors happening …
Continue to the full articleThe fire-damaged ship carrying Porsches has sunk
UPDATE! As of Tuesday morning, the Felicity Ace, a cargo ship carrying thousands of brand new vehicles from Volkswagen, Lamborghini, and Porsche, has sunk. Back on the morning of February 16th a fire broke out on the Pacific Ocean traversing Panama-flagged liner carrying something like 4,000 cars. At the time of the fire the ship was about 90 miles …
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