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Aston Martin returns to WEC with the Valkyrie AMR-LMH

Aston Martin is one of the teams that have not competed in the WEC (World Endurance Championship) for years, and now they are returning to the competition in the 2025 season. They will compete in the Hypercar class and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with two Valkyrie AMR-LMH cars.

Both cars will be in the colors of the Heart of Racing team and will be powered by the Cosworth RA 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 engine. It is an improved engine that in the standard version has over 1,000 hp at 11,000 rpm.

The car is currently in the testing stages, which Aston Martin will run on European and North American tracks until the end of autumn. At the first tests held at the British tracks Donington and Silverstone, racers Darren Turner, Mario Farnbacher and Harry Tincknell were behind the wheel.

It will be the return of another manufacturer that will join Ferrari, which after half a century returned to the WEC. At this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ferrari won with the Ferrari LMH 499P. The car is powered by a twinturbocharged 3.0-liter V6 engine with 680 hp (500 kW), which in combination with an electric motor with 272 hp (200 kW), produces a total of 952 hp (700 kW). The engine is paired with a seven-speed sequential gearbox. It is equipped with a 900-volt battery from Formula 1, which is charged by deceleration and braking.

It has not yet been confirmed whether Aston Martin will appear at the IMSA 24 Hours of Daytona in January 2025.

Source: Aston Martin

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Tesla Model 2 will arrive in 2025

During the company’s financial report, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the arrival of a new electric car, the Tesla Model 2. It is an affordable car that will cost less than the Model 3, and which should arrive on the market in the first half of next year.

Last year, a teaser was released showing a car with a curved roofline and similar design to the Model Y SUV and Model 3. The Model 2 is also expected to look a bit like the facelifted Model 3 with slimmer headlights compared to Tesla’s older models. It should be positioned as a rival to conventional family hatchback models with a size of around 4.4 meters, and this could be achieved with a more aggressive rear roofline.

The car will be produced on the same production lines as the current models. This will not achieve the projected savings, but it will provide an opportunity for the company to increase the volume of vehicles in a more efficient way during uncertain times. “This should help us use the maximum capacity, which is close to three million vehicles, and enable a growth of more than 50 percent compared to production in 2023 before investing in new production lines,” the company said.

The Tesla CEO also said that this car will use everything the company learned during the development of the Model S, X, 3 and Y, as well as the Cybertruck and the Semi truck.

Source: Tesla

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All-electric Porsche Cayenne coming soon

In 2023, Porsche revealed a facelift version of its luxury crossover SUV, the Cayenne, and it was announced that the fourth generation of the SUV could be all-electric. Now it’s official.

Photos of the camouflaged car reveal a few minor changes such as large vertical vents on either side of the rear bumper, active vents up front and different light signatures. On the other hand, no major changes are expected in the cabin compared to the current version.

The fully electric Cayenne will be built on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) platform, which Porsche developed in collaboration with Audi.

The new generation Cayenne will be powered by two electric motors with more than 640 hp. This means it will be more powerful than the current all-electric Porsche Macan, which uses the same PPE platform. It will have AWD, and thanks to the 800-V infrastructure, it will use fast chargers with a power of up to 270 kW.

The arrival of the all-electric Porsche Cayenne is expected by 2026. Also, Porsche has no intention of stopping offering the Cayenne with an internal combustion engine.

Source: Porsche