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23 Jun 2021, 14:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Reuters anticipated Audi would produce its last ICE project in 2026, it took some days for the company to confirm that and add some details to the strategy. From 2026 on, the company will introduce only pure electric cars. Ironically, it may ...
23 Jun 2021, 07:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you never heard about dendrites, they are to batteries what kryptonite is to Superman. These needle-like structures form inside lithium-ion cells, perforate the separator, and cause short-circuits, which may lead to fires. Among lithium-ion ...
23 Jun 2021, 06:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid was supposed to release its electric sedan – the Air – in spring 2021. We are already in summer, and the EV is not yet available, but Peter Rawlinson justified that back in February. Thanks to his SPAC deal and the deep pocke...
22 Jun 2021, 17:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Fisker signed its final manufacturing agreement with Magna, it is revealing more and more details about the Ocean. The company’s electric SUV will start production on November 17, 2022, it will present its production version at the 2021...
22 Jun 2021, 16:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You might have never heard of Nebula Project AG, but you certainly know Aston Martin. Both companies joined forces to develop the Valkyrie hypercar. In 2016, when Aston Martin did not have the money to engineer its masterpiece, Nebula backed the id...
22 Jun 2021, 07:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / RJ Scaringe is a low-profile automotive CEO: he only talks about anything when it is ready or close to that. Instead of presenting Rivian to the world and asking for funds, he only revealed it with the R1T prototype and plenty of money from Ford an...
22 Jun 2021, 07:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen tried to buy Alfa Romeo twice, and FCA did not want to sell it. The reason for that starts to be clear with the plans Stellantis is making to return the Italian brand to its former glory. According to Greg Kable from Autocar, one of the ...
22 Jun 2021, 07:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Early adopters are heroes in the sense that they volunteer to discover everything that can go wrong with a product for the privilege of being the first ones to have them. That lesson’s most recent episode came from the Ioniq 5, which can pres...
21 Jun 2021, 17:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jérôme Guillen was considered as one of the most important executives at Tesla, apart from Elon Musk’s problem solver. When he left the company on June 3, some felt that this confirmed his transference to the truck division was a...
21 Jun 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Nio ET7 has multiple things to celebrate: a range of up to 700 km with the 100 kWh battery pack, a proven battery swap system that Norwegians will soon begin to evaluate, and soon a 150 kWh battery pack. If that was not enough, the electric sed...
21 Jun 2021, 12:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People have strong feelings about unions, either pro or against them. But, whatever you think about them, they’re legal, and workers have the capacity to organize themselves in unions if so they wish. A short documentary about Richard Ortiz s...
21 Jun 2021, 07:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota had to present the 2022 Tundra in the U.S. after some images of the pickup truck leaked online. Some customers loved it, and some loathed it. What if they were given an alternative with the same front face as the 2022 Toyota Land Cruiser? To...
19 Jun 2021, 10:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is frequently said that Tesla has a lead in electric vehicles, but Kent Bovellan begs to disagree. In a group interview in which Paultan.org was present, the chief engineer of the SEA (Sustainable Experience Architecture) said that there are onl...
18 Jun 2021, 17:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If it were up to the market to decide when electric vehicles should be adopted, we would probably burn the last drop of oil on the planet and some synthetic replacement for decades ahead. When governments started pushing electric mobility, they...
18 Jun 2021, 08:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla committed to calling its German factory Giga Berlin-Brandenburg and shortened it to Giga Berlin – which is not correct. The plant is in Grünheide, which is why we call it that way. It has changed its plans for it so many times it n...
18 Jun 2021, 08:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SK Innovation managed to escape from a U.S. ban to pull off something extraordinary. One of the cars it plans to power, the Ford F-150 Lightning, will receive the most powerful lithium-ion battery to date. Called NCM9, it has a proportion of nickel...
18 Jun 2021, 07:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Canoo changed a lot in the last few months. It was not supposed to sell its cars, applying circular economy principles to its products, but that did not last. Its new CEO, Tony Aquila, decided it will sell its EVs like almost everyone else. To prod...
17 Jun 2021, 16:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the US presidential campaign in 1992, James Carville coined a sentence that probably gave Bill Clinton the victory. “It’s the economy, stupid!” meant that anyone able to point out the country’s economic issues and present...
17 Jun 2021, 16:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker and Magna have finally signed a binding manufacturing agreement for the Ocean. The electric SUV’s production even has a precise date for starting: November 17, 2022. About one year before that, it will make its official public premiere...
17 Jun 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the Mazda MX-30 was revealed, it did not make sense. It was supposed to be the company’s first dedicated electric vehicle, but it had a tiny battery pack and a limited range. Later, Mazda revealed a hybrid version of the car with a 2-lit...