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An all-electric version of the Porsche Cayenne SUV will be revealed later this year, CEO Oliver Blume said in a Q&A following the announcement of the automaker’s 2024 financial results Wednesday. “We are going to present it to the world for the first time at the end of the year,” Blume said, adding that the reveal will take place on the West Coast. Electric Porsche Cayenne prototype Porsche confirmed the electric Cayenne almost exactly two years ago, although it had been mentioned as a possible addition to its product pipeline prior to that. Like the smaller electric Porsche Macan, the…

Toyota has slowly expanded its offerings of GR-branded performance cars over the years, with models like the GR Corolla and GR Yaris attaining cult-like status in some markets. None of the cars feature electrification, but that may change soon, Autocar reported on Wednesday, citing comments from GR engineer Hiroyuki Yamada. According to the report, GR, which stands for Gazoo Racing, Toyota’s official motorsports arm and performance sub-brand, is developing a hybrid powertrain that uses a newly developed 2.0-liter turbo-4 as its gas component. The move will enable Toyota to meet stricter emissions regulations in both road car and motorsports applications.…

Both models use the same running gear as the rest of the range, but are biased towards working roles. For the 2025 model year the Ineos gains forward-collision alert and road-sign recognition. Head-to-headOn the road The punchy six-cylinder diesel gives the Ineos a clear performance advantage, but the hesitant gearbox can frustrate. The Ineos engine is far smoother than the Toyota’s unit, though. Vague and relatively weighty steering means the Ineos requires your constant attention, but the Land Cruiser’s rack is light and over-assisted, so while it’s more responsive to direction changes, it doesn’t suit the car’s character. Tech highlightsThe…

Toyota and EVgo on Tuesday announced the opening of new DC fast-charging stations for underserved communities. Located in Baldwin Park and Sacramento, California, the fast chargers are part of Toyota’s Empact plan for making electric vehicles more accessible to communities not reached by previous infrastructure projects, such as those in urban areas with limited off-street parking and higher population density in multi-family dwellings. Toyota and EVgo Empact EV fast-charging stations for underserved communities Situated in “amenity-rich areas” with nearby grocery stores, restaurants, shopping malls, and other places one might drive to, the charging stations can serve up to eight vehicles…

The 2025 F1 season gets underway this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix The season includes five rookie drivers and will be run over 24 races The season is also the first for Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari After the long winter break, the Formula 1 World Championship returns this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit. The season marks F1’s 75th anniversary and is the last for the sport’s current regulatory era, which goes back to 2014 when F1 made a switch from V-8 engines to turbocharged V-6 engines paired with complex hybrid systems. The V-6…

VW’s unified EV cell format brings cell-to-pack battery design Cuts costs, sets stage for cell-to-body and simplified EVs Means EVs with more range and energy density, perhaps lower weight LFP and NMC chemistries on the same format, maybe solid-state, sodium-ion Volkswagen’s vision of where it might be by the end of the decade with electric vehicles has evolved in recent years. But simplification is the keyword, and its plans to focus on a single EV battery cell format go right along with that.  This week, in a technology update held just before the company’s Volkswagen Group Annual Conference, the global…

BMW’s first Neue Klasse EV will be a compact crossover in the X3 family, badged as the iX3 Production starts in late 2025 at a plant in Hungary The iX3 will be followed in 2026 by an i3 electric sedan forming part of the next-generation 3-Series family BMW used its annual general meeting held in Munich on Friday to confirm the first member of its upcoming Neue Klasse family of electric vehicles: the iX3. A camouflaged prototype was displayed during the meeting, where CEO Oliver Zipse also confirmed that the covers will come off at the 2025 Munich auto show,…

Battery-electric CLA 250+, CLA 350 arrive first Non-PHEV CLA hybrid coming in a year EVs have 800-volt architecture, 320-kw max charging Mercedes-Benz will kick off the replacement of all its global small cars this year—and when they do, all the models coming to the U.S. will sport some sort of electrification. But some will be more electric than others. Battery-electric CLAs will be the first of the new generation of compact cars to arrive late in 2025. They’ll be followed by a CLA hybrid about a year after that, with replacements for the GLA-Class hatchback and GLB-Class yet to come. …

A redesigned Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class with hybrid and electric options arrives for the 2026 model year AMG will reveal a tuned version of the electric CLA-Class in 2026 The reported output is a minimum of 500 hp, generated by one or more axial-flux electric motors Mercedes-Benz on Thursday took the covers off a third-generation CLA-Class compact sedan, which will offer buyers the choice of electric or hybrid powertrains. Still in the works, though, are versions tuned by Mercedes-Benz AMG, one of which will be an electric replacement for the current CLA 45. Prototypes for this AMG-tuned CLA-Class EV have been spotted…

Volkswagen is close to revealing a second-generation T-Roc, with the latest prototype to be spied wearing barely any camouflage gear. The current T-Roc is a compact crossover closely related to the Golf hatchback. It made its debut in 2017 and has since spawned a high-performance T-Roc R variant and open-top T-Roc Cabriolet. The latter isn’t expected to get a repeat with the new generation, however. The new T-Roc should debut later this year. Considering VW ruled out selling the current T-Roc in the U.S., it’s likely the new generation will also skip this market. Instead, the automaker offers the bigger…