Month: June 2025

The governing body for world motorsport met in Macau yesterday. Among the jobs for the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile was to sign off on various calendars for next season, which is why there's now a clash between the F1 Monaco Grand Prix and the 24 Hours of Le Mans and also between the Indy 500 and F1's annual visit to Canada. The Formula E calendar was also announced, although with a pair of blank TBCs in the middle, I'll hold off calling it finalized.

The US round will now take place in late January, and it's moving venues yet again. No longer will you need to drive an hour south of Miami; instead, the northern outskirts of the city will suffice. The infield at Homestead is no more, and the sport has negotiated a race at the Hard Rock Stadium, albeit on a different layout than the one used by F1. It seems that Formula E's recent "Evo Sessions" race between influencers, which was held at the stadium, proved convincing.

The really interesting Formula E news from Macau won't take effect until the 2026–2027 season, and that's the arrival of the Gen4 car.

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Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit ein solides Office-Notebook im Angebot. Es ist mit satten 40 Prozent Rabatt erhältlich. (PC & Notebooks, Notebook)

Die Telekom-Tochter erhöht beim Jahrestarif das Datenvolumen ohne Aufpreis. Die Aktion des Mobilfunkdiscounters läuft bis Mitte Juli 2025. (Congstar, Telekom)

Viel Motorleistung und enorme Spitzengeschwindigkeiten haben ausgereicht, um Porsches Rekordzeit zu unterbieten - am Ende knapper als gedacht. (Motorsport, Auto)

Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London.

In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US President hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before.

The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls.

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Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London.

In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US President hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before.

The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls.

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Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London.

In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US President hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before.

The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls.

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Amazon hat einen Outdoor-tauglichen Bluetooth-Lautsprecher von Soundcore by Anker mit 140 W, 20-Stunden-Akku und Ladefunktion im Angebot. (Lautsprecher, Sound-Hardware)

Im Machtkampf mit US-Präsident Trump lenkt Elon Musk weiter ein. Das könnte mit dem Start des autonomen Tesla-Dienstes in Austin zusammenhängen. (Elon Musk, Elektroauto)

ASPEN, Colo.—There's a lot riding on Audi's next Q5. The model has been Audi's bread and butter here since the model went on sale in the US in 2009, as tastes changed and sedans fell out of favor. The third-generation Q5 is built on an all-new platform and is one of a new generation of software-defined vehicles that's meant to ditch a lot of legacy crud for a clean sheet approach. You would have known all of that from our look at the new Q5 in a studio last year, when Audi briefed us on its new platform. What you wouldn't have known from that piece is how it drives, particularly on US roads. The answer is: surprisingly well.

PPC

Just a few years ago, the world's big car brands were telling us that soon everyone would be driving electric cars, and that it would be wonderful. Things haven't quite panned out the way people thought they might when prognosticating in 2018, though. Electric powertrains have yet to reach price parity, in many places infrastructure still lags, and so automakers are developing new combustion-powered vehicles, particularly for markets like the US, where adoption remains far behind Europe or China.

For Audi and the other premium brands within the Volkswagen Group empire, that's a new platform called PPC, or Premium Platform Combustion. PPC will provide the bones for new vehicles in a range of sizes and shapes, the same way the MLB (and MLB Evo) platforms have done until now. In a week, you can read about the A5, for example, but as the sales figures show, SUVs are what people want, so the Q5 comes first.

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