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19 Jul 2024, 21:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fossil fuels will not last forever. The certainty that their days are numbered confirms that the internal combustion engine (ICE) is also destined to disappear. The solution for that would be battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and China is supposed ...
16 Jul 2024, 11:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Several battery electric vehicle (BEV) buyers in Europe were surprised when the cars they wanted to purchase got more expensive. They shouldn't, considering that the European Union (EU) now charges "provisional countervailing duties"...
12 Jul 2024, 21:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ferrari opened what it calls its e-Building last June. This factory will be responsible for manufacturing all cars from the brand with any electrification level. You've probably also heard it is considering a subscription service for its elect...
12 Jul 2024, 12:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have recently shared how a translation gig exposed to me the poor choice Rimac made by naming its electric hypercar Nevera. In Spanish, it means "fridge". People who think electric cars are appliances will only skip having a field day w...
11 Jul 2024, 18:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In journalism, there are a few basic questions you have to answer to deliver a complete story. We're talking about "what," "who," "where," "when," "how," and "why." Well, QuantumScape...
8 Jul 2024, 19:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When electric cars started becoming mainstream, their fans thought it was amazing that these vehicles would get new features with over-the-air (OTA) updates. Some of these supporters and investors crave the next update as they salivate for a new ca...
6 Jul 2024, 11:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO has been advocating for battery swapping since its creation. It is the most successful brand in China (and possibly in the world) to adopt this strategy, which is meant to make battery electric vehicles (BEVs) more convenient and remotely compa...
4 Jul 2024, 14:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 2, a car hauler full of new Teslas caught fire at 8:20 AM (local time) on the A21 road in Portugal, which goes from Mafra to Ericeira. The first outlet to report the incident was the Facebook page Os Monhacas, which kindly authorized me to ...
3 Jul 2024, 15:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I spent the last seven months involved with a translation gig that almost made me forget how difficult it is to start a text in the right way. Curiously, it also gave me ideas for several stories, including this one, precisely because of how rich t...
5 Dec 2023, 09:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ryan Thomas was a Tesla supporter long before he purchased his used 2021 Model 3 RWD with 15,000 miles on March 29, 2022. He said his battery electric vehicle (BEV) has a promised EPA range of 272 miles, which it never achieved. The good thing was ...
27 Nov 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters wrote a demolishing story about Tesla Insurance. The service that would be "revolutionary" and "vastly better" proved to be much worse than what more traditional insurers offer. As Zack Kirkhorn said when he was still Te...
22 Nov 2023, 12:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla's struggles with insurance are not new. After the "legacy" companies in charge of that started asking very high premiums to protect these battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the American automaker decided to have its own insuranc...
21 Nov 2023, 09:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The ultimate goal of luxury is peace of mind. Those who think it is about ostentation and possessions may eventually realize that they were after a stress-free life – or eventually one with the least possible amount of concerns. Lucid should ...
20 Nov 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit created the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel and helped create the Electrified Garage, an independent repair shop network for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). His first videos were about a Mode S he repaired on his own and which we now kn...
16 Nov 2023, 22:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / All European countries that I am aware of try to make sure used cars are in good condition to keep on the road. This is why they promote regular inspections, which varies from country to country. The Tesla Model 3 has just started going through the...
16 Nov 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Renault made waves with its Capital Market Day for Ampere, even in countries where it does not sell vehicles. Everybody fell in love with the future Twingo, a car that just celebrated 30 years of a really innovative proposal. The fourth generation ...
14 Nov 2023, 21:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Any reader who follows Tesla more closely knows the company follows the motto "deliver now, fix later." This strategy led Tesla Service Centers to get crowded, and it is all due to the company's aversion to proper testing. The batter...
11 Nov 2023, 11:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest Tesla Files article from Handelsblatt made a bell ring in my mind. Lukasz Krupski's story is something I have heard before from several other people, most of them employees who thought Tesla would make a difference in the world. Ano...
10 Nov 2023, 07:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not unusual that Tesla advocates will often inadvertently reveal some of the company's weaknesses. The video in which Galileo Russell and Omar Qazi tried to show Full Self-Driving (FSD) improvements and prevented it from hitting a cyclis...
9 Nov 2023, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People often hear that electric vehicles are not more prone to fires than those powered by internal combustion engines (ICE). As much as that is still debatable, it is not the main reason for concern. When a battery pack catches fire, the real prob...