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Porsche Panamera diesel may yet become a reality, along with hybrid
Porsche Panamera - Click above for high-res image gallery of the tech briefing When Porsche's new four-door Panamera goes on sale this fall, it will have two powertrains available: a 4.8-liter V8s with and without turbochargers. The only other powertrain Porsche has committed to is the hybrid system that will debut in the Cayenne next year. Two other options are likely to appear in the Panamera as well. A gasoline V6 is probable, most likely the new 3.0-liter supercharged V6 that is debuting in the Audi S4 and A6 this year. The other ... Read more →
Porsche R&D says electric 911 possible, needs more development Sam Abuelsamid
eRuf Greenster - Click above for high-res image gallery In an interview with the German magazine Motor Zeitung, Porsche's R&D director Wolfgang Dürheimer discussed the possibility of ...
Ferdinand Porsche Award goes to lithium battery researchers Sam Abuelsamid
click above for a high res gallery of Lohner-Porsche EVs and hybrids This year's "Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award" has gone to Dipl. Eng. Michael Keller from Temic Automotive Electric Motors ...
Porsche green has solar sheen Domenick Yoney
Although Porsche may not employ a lot of green tech in their cars (though that is starting to change), the same can not be said of their facilities. Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) has just ...
U.S. Porsche Panamera will get start/stop, active aero Sebastian Blanco
Porsche has announced that the upcoming Panamera will get an unusual feature to increase the efficiency of the new vehicle. Available on the Panamera Turbo, an active aerodynamic system used a ...
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Porsche will cut CO2 emissions by 25% by 2012 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
At a technical briefing on the new Porsche Panamera this week in Germany, Wolfgang Dürheimer, EVP of Research and Development at Porsche talked about additional powertrains and CO2 reductions. On the question of downsizing engines for its cars, Dürheimer said that there were no current ...
First Drive: Sailing in Stuttgart with Porsche's Cayenne S Hybrid 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid - Click above for high-res gallery While charging along at 85 mph with a particularly poker-faced Porsche engineer riding shotgun, traffic begins to cluster on the horizon. Not willing to risk our seven-figure prototype, I gently roll off the accelerator, at which point ...
Geneva 2009: Ruf Greenster evolves the electric Porsche concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Ruf Greenster for a high res gallery Last fall, Porsche high performance tuning specialist Ruf announced that it had built a prototype electric sports car called the eRuf which was essentially a lithium ion battery-powered 911. That was just the beginning of the story as the company ...
Which cars in Europe have Stop & Start technology? These do 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Stop & Start technology, also known as mild hybrization, is a relatively simple technology that can easily reduce fuel consumption in vehicles. Regular readers already know how it works. Basically, in most instances, the engine shuts down instead of idling, for instance at traffic lights, and ...
Porsche releases details on the upcoming Cayenne S hybrid 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Cayenne hybrid for a high res gallery Porsche has just released more information on the new Cayenne S Hybrid that will finally launch in 2010. The company has changed up its powertrain plans since originally announcing the hybrid. Instead of the older 3.6L normally aspirated V6, it ...
Geneva Preview: Porsche to publicly debut Cayenne diesel 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Cayenne diesel for a high res gallery Porsche started building the new Cayenne diesel SUV several weeks ago but the German sports car maker will publicly show it for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in a couple of weeks. Like its platform-mates the Volkswagen Touareg and Audi ...
Winding Road takes a look at direct injection 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above to enlarge While it may seem that direct injection is just the latest and greatest way to dump fuel into an engine, the reality is that DI technology is the absolute best way to inject dead dinos in an engine. How so? Past efforts to increase power and fuel efficiency, while ...
2010 Porsche Panamera to get standard auto start/stop 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Panamera interior for a high res gallery Porsche will publicly show its new Panamera four door for the first time at the Shanghai Motor Show in April and put it on sale in the U.S. in October. When it launches, it will be the first Porsche equipped with automatic start/stop capability. ...
Huge fine for Mercedes-Benz for poor fuel efficiency 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Every year, automakers that fail to meet the federally-mandated CAFE fuel efficiency standards receive fines in proportion to their gas-guzzling crimes. Last year, DaimlerChrysler set a record with a fine of $30,357,635.50, and that figure is proving tough to beat. Still, Mercedes-Benz, which made ...
India getting Porsche Cayenne Diesel 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the Porsche Cayenne Diesel Porsche just launched its first modern diesel engine in the Cayenne sport utility vehicle, and the German automaker said when it was first introduced that it was planning on bringing the model to other markets. Considering that the ...
Porsche launches production of the Cayenne diesel 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
After spending an inordinate amount of time over the last two years denying that it would ever build a diesel vehicle because diesels were incompatible with Porsche's image, the company finally relented and announced it would put a diesel in the Cayenne SUV. Now, barely a month after that ...
Hypermiling in a Porsche 911 yields 35.1 mpg 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The Porsche 911 has long been one of the most fuel efficient sports cars available at its performance level. The new 2009 911 with its direct injection and dual clutch gearbox is rated at 24 mpg (US) combined on the EU test cycle (19/27 on the EPA cycles). That's not an exceptional number around ...
Porsche donates Congestion Charge legal awards to charity 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Earlier this year, a major storm was brewing in London as then-mayor Ken Livingstone was locked in a legal battle with Porsche over an increased Congestion Charge on its performance cars. After quite a bit of legal wrangling back and forth, Livingstone's ejection in favor of new London mayor Boris ...
Porsche places order for Tesla Roadster 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more high-res shots of the eRUF Concept Model A Uh oh. Rumors suggest that Porsche isn't all that impressed with the all-electric lithium-ion powered 911 from longtime tuning company Ruf. Not that the German automaker is giving up on electric sportscars completely or anything... ...
Porsche officially announces diesel Cayenne for Europe 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the Porsche Cayenne Diesel Despite Porsche's longtime reluctance to go diesel, environmental and economical pressures have finally made it impossible for Porsche to ignore the added efficiency that Rudolph's old compression ignition engine design allows. ...
LA 2008: Porsche RS Spyder all boxed up 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
From the company that brought you the Boxster, may we present you a car in a box: the 2008 Porsche RS Spyder was all caged up in a glass fence at the Porsche room at the LA Auto Show. Thankfully, cameras can shoot through Porsche's defenses and so we can get a good view of the ethanol sticker on ...
Porsche considers a return to four-cylinder engines 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Porsche has had its ups and downs when creating cars without using six-cylinder engines. We'll leave the Cayenne and the upcoming Panamera out of the discussion for now, though those models are scheduled to get hybrid powertrains in addition to V6 and V8 power. Starting with its 356 model, along ...
Road and Track tests battery-powered E-Ruf 911 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the E-Ruf We only heard about the latest modified Porsche from Ruf about a week and a half ago when the tuner unveiled its new E-Ruf via press release. Apparently we weren't the first to learn of the all-electric 911, as Road & Track has already driven it ...
Ruf's electric Porshce powered by UQM motor 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more high-res shots of the eRUF Concept Model A The recently-revealed all electric Porsche 911 from longtime tuner RUF uses an electric motor from UQM Technologies. The motor offers up some 150 kW of power and seems to be an off-the-shelf motor that the company is capable of ...
Austin Alt Car: Z Wheelz shows off Porsche EV and ZW2 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge The two vehicles that Gary Krysztopik and Z Wheelz brought to Alt Cat Austin this weekend could not be more different. One the one hand, we have the ZW2 (above), a hot rod like trike with all sorts of chrome. The three-wheeled bike is Krysztopik's prototype kit car - one in a ...
Ten diesels you'll be able to drive stateside soon 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Forbes has published a list of 10 diesel cars Americans will be able to purchase soon. Automakers expect that the new generation diesels will catch up on American soil thanks to their refined engineering, which translates into reduced emissions and more torque along with mileage increases of around ...
Ruf reveals electrically powered 911 instead of Cayman EV 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
eRuf Concept Model A Quash the electric Cayman rumor. Ruf Automobiles has a long history of taking already fast sports cars from Porsche and making them extraordinarily fast. That typically happens by means of adding more displacement, more boost, more fuel etc. Now, founder Alois Ruf is taking ...
Spoiler Alert: 10th Petit Le Mans is over, the first Green Challenge winner is... 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The tenth running of the Petit Le Mans took place on Saturday and along with celebrating a decade of the American Le Mans Series it also marked the debut of the ALMS Green Challenge. For those of you that TIVO'ed the race you can come back later. The rest of you can follow the jump to see who won. ...
Paris Preview: Porsche promises "More Power on Less Fuel" 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click for high-res images The possible electric Porsche Cayman, the one-off conversion of the MIIN-AER, an old 911 EV conversion. There's certainly no lack of people who like the looks of a Porsche but want to make the vehicle a lot clener. While there's no official battery-powered EV coming ...
AltCar 2008: Details on the MIIN-AER compressed air Porsche Boxster 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
As I wrote on Thursday, one of the more interesting vehicles here at the Alt Car Expo is a one-off home conversion of a 1999 Porsche Boxster called the MIIN-AER car. We wanted to get some more information about this thing, so we talked to Glenn Bell, CEO of Air Fuel Auto. Bell talked about why he's ...
Electric Porsche Cayman coming from Ruf? 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for shots of the Ruf CTR 3 German mag Auto Motor und Sport is reporting that longtime Porsche tuning specialist Ruf is planning to debut an all-electric version of the awesome Cayman sportscar. Could it be? An electric sportscar that isn't based on a platform from Lotus? We'll see ...
Could Porsche revive the 912? 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We have had quite a series of stories from Porsche regarding its "issues" adapting to greener motoring. With that in mind, listen to this: Porsche might be thinking of installing 4-cylinder engines into some models. Well, to be precise, Thomas Krickelberg, Porsche's head of powertrain development, ...
Porsche finally confirms a diesel for the Cayenne 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
German magazine AutoBild is reporting that Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking has finally confirmed that a diesel powered Cayenne will indeed appear in 2009. Porsche has long denied that would build a diesel powered vehicle because it would be out of character for the brand. This is of course a bogus ...
Porsche ALMS race engine to go direct injection 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
From track to road and back to track again. That is the path for gasoline direct fuel injection. In the late 90s Audi added direct injection to its R8 Le Mans prototype in order to get more power while consuming less fuel. In racing reducing fuel consumption is important because it allows cars to ...
2011 Porsche Panamera could be world's most expensive hybrid 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We've been following the on-again, off-again news of the upcoming hybrid and diesel powertrain options on Porsche's Panamera, which is scheduled to go on sale starting next year. It seems that the hybrid is a lock and will be equipped with a 3.6-liter V6 engine offering 300 horsepower along with an ...
BMW awarded as "UK's cleanest premium manufacturer" 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Cleangreencars.co.uk has awarded BMW as the "cleanest premium manufacturer" in Great Britain. Their report found that total model range CO2 emissions from January 2008 to June 2008 at BMW averaged 161.64g/km. BMW's competitors all achieved worse figures. For instance Audi and Mercedes were ...
