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28 Jun 2021, 07:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volvo and Polestar disclosed they would produce the Polestar 3 in Volvo’s Ridgeville plant in the US, that was more than just a new product announcement. In fact, Volvo also meant to alert that its American plant will become the first to...
27 Jun 2021, 06:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a feeling of relief when Hyundai said that a folded anode tab caused the Kona Electric fires. It was also great that Hyundai decided to replace all possibly defective battery packs, but a recent fire in Norway made those feelings vanish. ...
27 Jun 2021, 06:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As W. Edward Deming once said, “it is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” For everyone that thinks it is desirable, change is a must, but at what pace? This is what we asked Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport in Ba...
27 Jun 2021, 05:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Riversimple already disclosed it would not sell a single car. It would be just another automaker following a business model that gives evident signs of exhaustion if it did that. As much as the combustion engine was doomed for relying on a finite r...
27 Jun 2021, 04:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD has announced an impressive new platform at the Auto Shanghai 2021. Called e-platform 3.0, it will allow the company to sell an EV able to go from 0 to 100 kph (62 mph) in 2.9 seconds, have a range of more than 1,000 km (620 miles), and ch...
26 Jun 2021, 11:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the best features of the future Rivian R1T is how versatile it is. The electric pickup truck has loads of storage spaces, and one of them, the gear tunnel, even received one of the most impressive pieces of equipment ever created for any veh...
26 Jun 2021, 11:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro had already praised Ford for some of the solutions it gave to the Mustang Mach-E. He also criticized them, such as about its cooling system, which may eventually present leaks. In his latest video about the electric crossover teardown, ...
26 Jun 2021, 09:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has faced a lot of negative publicity after Zhang Yazhou, a Tesla Model 3 owner, jumped on top of a Model 3 at the Auto Shanghai 2021 to say it was an “Invisible Killer.” The company denied issues with sudden unintended accelerati...
26 Jun 2021, 08:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Audi already said that it would present its last vehicle with a combustion engine in 2026. Volkswagen is investing heavily in electric cars. The only company in the group that was yet to disclose its electric mobility plans was Skoda, but that came...
25 Jun 2021, 14:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At first, it may seem unfair that Kevin Shenkman decided to sue Tesla for its Supercharging for life promises. The company established a fee for people that leave their cars charging for more time than they should, which may sound entirely reasonab...
25 Jun 2021, 10:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Audi e-tron and e-tron Sportback will not be replaced by the Q6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron Sportback, as previously thought. According to Autocar's Greg Kable, Audi’s electric flagship will receive a mid-cycle restyling in the second half ...
25 Jun 2021, 07:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jason Hughes is one of the most trustworthy sources when it comes to anything related to Tesla. He was the man that said that SUA (Sudden Unintended Acceleration) episodes in the company’s EVs were not possible. He also said that allegations ...
25 Jun 2021, 06:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai announced it would replace the battery packs of 81,701 vehicles in February 2021: 75,680 Kona Electrics, 5,716 Ioniq EVs, and 305 Elec City Buses. All of them would have a folded anode tab due to a manufacturing mistake made by LG Energy So...
25 Jun 2021, 06:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The newest rumor about Renault’s electric car plans shows how the company is moving fast toward electric mobility and its dependence on French politics. According to Bloomberg, the French carmaker will announce next Monday, June 28, a deal wi...
25 Jun 2021, 05:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After it signed its first battery supply deal with Tesla, Panasonic bought about 1.4 million shares when the American EV maker started negotiating them at NASDAQ, in 2010. Each one would have cost $21.15, which translated into $29.61 million. Nikke...
24 Jun 2021, 15:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo’s latest release does not mention Tesla a single time. Yet, the comparisons are inevitable when the Swedish carmaker states that the next-generation XC90 will be a fully electric SUV. More than that, it will also have a Luminar LiDAR an...
24 Jun 2021, 12:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Tavares gave Chrysler, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo ten years to prove they are still relevant enough to stay alive. When it comes to Lancia, what we know is that Jean-Pierre Ploué will be personally in charge of giving its future vehicles ...
24 Jun 2021, 10:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With summer days and trips, we also hear a lot more cases of children and animals getting seriously hurt or even dying after being left in cars. To bring awareness to the dangers of a hot summer day, Ford created an interesting video with the help ...
24 Jun 2021, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This story only came to our attention thanks to Sascha Pallenberg. He shared a Tik Tok video of what seems to be a brand new Tesla Model S Plaid with a loose airbag on Twitter. He did that teasing the American carmaker for removing adjustable lumba...
23 Jun 2021, 16:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / James Glickenhaus has already challenged Tesla and Volkswagen to prove BEVs (battery electric vehicles) can beat FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles) in competitions. We suspect he will do that more frequently after announcing Glickenhaus Zero has a...