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5 Jun 2023, 22:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Autos Segredos said Stellantis would name its new unibody pickup truck Rampage, I had no doubt that would indeed be the case. Anyway, it is always good to have the official confirmation, and it arrived this June 5. Luckily, there are only a fe...
5 Jun 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) received a petition for a recall of all Tesla vehicles sold in the US in April. Costas Lakafossis came up with an explanation for sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) episodes and proposed ...
4 Jun 2023, 06:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have just written about how BEV startups can be very different from each other, with only a few having any chance of survival. AEHRA is an Italian BEV startup that presented what seemed to be renderings of an SUV in November 2022. It also promise...
3 Jun 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is increasingly clearer that most of the BEV startups we have seen in the last few years will not survive. They emerged in a moment of easy money when a bull market stimulated investors to look for the next Tesla. When war, inflation, and other ...
2 Jun 2023, 19:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I had been insisting on how expensive it is to replace battery packs for quite a while before the BMS_u029 error codes started popping up. They are affecting components not only due to their mileage but also due to their age. A new case reinforces ...
31 May 2023, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Only a few people are truly familiar with how difficult it is to open and get a new mine started. Due to the environmental impacts that they have anywhere they are established, they have to comply with several requirements. That alone can demand ye...
31 May 2023, 12:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After I first wrote about the Tesla Files, it surprised me people were not giving them the attention they deserved – especially in the US. So I wrote about why these documents are crucial for American Tesla employees and customers. To a large...
30 May 2023, 23:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although most BEV advocates are sure battery electric vehicles are the only way out of fossil fuels in personal transportation, others healthily look for other options. One of them is to have electric cars that charge on the go with wireless chargi...
30 May 2023, 13:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 25, the German newspaper Handelsblatt revealed a massive data leak from Tesla. What was supposed to make headlines in all serious media outlets ended up having a shy coverage so far. It seems most people failed to understand what Handelsblat...
29 May 2023, 11:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit disclosed he bought a Rivian R1T in November 2022. It was actually a little earlier than that because the electric pickup truck was rear-ended in October and fixed only in May. The insurance covered the repair, but it still cost $37,475...
26 May 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are more than 2,400 reports of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) episodes involving Teslas from 2015 until March 2022. Anyone with access to the company's Toolbox internal messaging system can access information from customers and emp...
25 May 2023, 23:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla decided to name its car for the masses Model E, Ford said no. The company had the trademark and was willing to use it in its battery electric car (BEV) division. Tesla's only option was to name the car Model 3. When Ford decided Ame...
25 May 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Rimac Nevera broke several world records on May 17, including the lowest 1/8-mile and 1/4-mile times for a production car. Only eight days later, the Japanese carmaker Aspark seemed to have beaten the Croatian company with the Owl by setting tw...
25 May 2023, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On April 25, I wrote about an appeal Jason Hughes made on Twitter. The Tesla Hacker urged people not to reset their Model S units with BMS_u029 or BMS_u018 error codes. That could lead to dangerous situations. Exactly one month later, Hughes confir...
24 May 2023, 22:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Wuling never had any problems with selling the Hongguang Mini EV, an electric quadricycle that costs only RMB32,800 ($4,650 at the current exchange rate)... until very recently. In January, it became the third BEV to reach 1 million units sold afte...
24 May 2023, 10:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford made a capital markets event on May 22 that wanted to prove the company no longer fits into the valuation box that comprises most other carmakers. The automotive industry is seen as a high-investment, low-margin business, and the Blue Oval bra...
22 May 2023, 18:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On January 2, a Tesla Model Y flew off "Devil's Slide" in California with four people on board. Dharmesh Arvind Patel was driving with his wife, Neha Bubna Patel, and their two children: a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy. They w...
22 May 2023, 12:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In its latest US passenger car fleet analysis, S&P Global Mobility discovered that the average age of cars in the country has risen to 12.5 years. That has two explanations: constrained new vehicle sales and the increase in SUV and light truck ...
20 May 2023, 14:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Even if you have never heard of Eduardo Oliveira, it is almost certain that you have already seen his work somewhere. Du, as he is more popularly known, started rendering classic Brazilian cars in 2006 with the Irmão do Décio (IDD) bl...
20 May 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not news that Tesla Customer Services are broken. I wrote on January 2022 about the issue, and nothing has changed so far. However, a recent example shows just how damaged the company's model for repairing its vehicles is. Bishal Malla...