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Jalopnik: https://jalopnik.com/ev-battery-damage-minor-crash-car-totaled-recycling-1850243294 Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/scratched-ev-battery-your-insurer-may-have-junk-whole-car-2023-03-20/

As car owners grow hip to one form a theft, crooks are turning to new ones. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/

The CEO of CARIAD, VW's software arm, tells Ars what's been going on at work: In 2019, Volkswagen Group ... set up a new division and moved the entire VW Group's software development under that roof, with a mandate to create a new unified automotive operating system for future VW Group EVs. In...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43234914/airstream-porsche-camping-trailer-concept-sxsw/

2023 Auto Insurance Rate Predictions: --Auto insurance is expected to increase by 8.4% in 2023 with 45 states seeing their rates increase by at least 1%. --The average cost of full coverage car insurance in 2023 is $1,780/year, with Michigan, Florida, and Rhode Island residents paying the...

https://media.mbusa.com/releases/release-114ce267cc5c6b7c8054f988850163f3-mercedes-benz-reveals-new-charging-network-and-tech-updates-at-ces-2023 In his remarks during the Mercedes-Benz tech talks at CES 2023, Chief Technology Officer Markus Schäfer revealed plans for a Mercedes-Benz branded...

Volkswagen Pivots To MEB+ Platform — 700 Km Range, 200 KW Charging

Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume told investors recently that he and his management team have a 10-point plan for the future. Speech by Oliver Blume CEO Volkswagen AG We reached further milestones in our electric fleet ramp-up. We topped the 500,000 mark with our Volkswagen ID.s and...

In a recent Bloomberg survey of EV drivers, 14% of respondents said they owned more than one battery-powered vehicle, and 6% of those surveyed had three or more. That doubling-down dynamic is clear in sales data, too. Some 26% of EV buyers in the second quarter either traded their used electric...

Thomas Shafer, VW brand CEO, Linkedin post

Tesla has done two things that disrupted the auto industry. First, it proved that a battery-electric car was a viable alternative to a combustion engine car — a tectonic shift in the world of automobiles. But the second innovation pioneered by Tesla — let’s call it the “computer on wheels”...

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/company/porsche-cars-north-america-executives/lea-anderson-29902.html

Norway Became an EV Paradise, Now It's Imposing a Weight Tax and Bringing Back the VAT The budget proposed for 2023 includes the reintroduction of the 25% VAT for the sum paid for a new EV that exceeds the NOK 500,000 ($46,661/€47,907) threshold. So, if your new base-spec Porsche Taycan 4S...

Article: https://www.westernjournal.com/man-plugs-80k-electric-truck-house-finds-will-take-4-days-charge/

Brand Loyalty Strong among New-Vehicle Owners, J.D. Power Finds "Porsche ranks highest among premium car brands with a 57.4% loyalty rate. Genesis (54.6%) ranks second."

https://www.motor1.com/news/610358/porsche-macan-ev-spied-testing/

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/27/which-legacy-automaker-is-selling-most-evs-as-portion-of-overall-sales-in-usa/ Porsche is leading the pack, as it has been for a long time, with 13% of its vehicle sales coming from the fully electric Porsche Taycan. Second is Audi, somewhat of a surprise...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/there-s-only-one-customer-for-electric-vehicles/ar-AA1176h7 " ...you’ll have the results from a recent study by intuit.ive. Given that most people will adopt a more progressive posture to a surveyor than they will behind closed doors, the percentage of...