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2 May 2023, 23:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ample was the first company to propose swappable battery modules that I have covered. Soon after I spoke to John de Souza – Ample's co-founder and president – CATL announced the Choco-SEBs, the company's swappable battery modu...
2 May 2023, 18:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Coherence is the quality of being logically consistent. In other words, to act as you preach. When The Los Angeles Times used a tweet Elon Musk shared on May 20, 2022, to interpret his actions in a defamation lawsuit, the story was called "bia...
30 Apr 2023, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I do not doubt that some car enthusiasts cried when they learned that General Motors was not going to save SAAB. The company was not profitable for quite a while, but many must have wished Stellantis bought it and saved it as it did with Opel and V...
30 Apr 2023, 16:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the major issues related to hydrogen is that it is a gas. That makes it difficult to transport and store, but new solutions may solve that in ways that most people may have never imagined. What if liquids helped to carry hydrogen? Forget wat...
30 Apr 2023, 13:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone following the Tesla Cybertruck saga is probably relieved that it is coming to an end. From a clumsy revelation on November 21, 2019, it may finally reach production lines in 2023. We know that because the company shared a few images of its p...
29 Apr 2023, 22:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Any comparison that is not apples to apples will fundamentally raise questions about fairness. This principle dictates that you can only compare things that are minimally similar for the whole thing to be valid. A recent SAE paper makes it pretty e...
28 Apr 2023, 20:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla recently disclosed in its Impact Report 2022 that its battery packs retain 88% capacity after 200,000 miles. Several people took that at face value and as a reassurance that they could drive an EV for a long time without issues. Having covere...
28 Apr 2023, 10:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape released a letter to its stockholders in which it shared some good news. Its A0 cells behaved as expected in tests with automakers and consumer electronics companies. However, it may have bigger things to fear other than its own develo...
27 Apr 2023, 09:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V., or vzbv) recently celebrated a victory against Tesla. On July 17, 2022, vzbv disclosed that it was suing the BEV maker for violating European General Data Prot...
25 Apr 2023, 21:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I've already discussed here the BMS_u029 error that is sentencing several older Model S battery packs to death. In fact, the error is just a warning that the component needs to be replaced. Jason Hughes wrote a Twitter thread to warn desperate...
25 Apr 2023, 17:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Can an SUV be as efficient as a sedan? That was the promise Lucid made when it revealed the Gravity, the SUV in which it made its biggest bets for high sales volumes. According to the BEV maker, the SUV is now in a new "phase of development, n...
25 Apr 2023, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While some BEV makers need full autonomous driving tech to work to preserve their market caps, there is one company sure that all the efforts they make will "lead nowhere." This is what Li Yunfei, the general manager of BYD branding and P...
24 Apr 2023, 14:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the Tesla Q1 2023 earnings call was immediately followed by a 7% stock price slide, its investors and advocates either pretended to be surprised or really failed to grasp why that happened. The answer is that the successive price reductions th...
23 Apr 2023, 17:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis is getting close to the reveal date of the Ram Rampage. You probably only heard that name related to Dodge, with the 1982 unibody pickup truck sold with that badge until 1984 and the 2006 concept. However, Project 291 – as it was k...
22 Apr 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / VinFast publicly believes the StoreDot technology for XFC (Extreme Fast Charge) cells is promising. It would not have invested in the Israeli battery company's Series D funding round in January 2022 if that weren't the case. StoreDot'...
21 Apr 2023, 11:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On March 9, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) made an alert about how heavy battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were getting and how that affected safety. On April 8, the British Parking Association said it feared old parking buildings...
20 Apr 2023, 15:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Costas Lakafossis is a respected accident investigator in his home country. He was in Greek TV shows to discuss the Tempi train crash that killed 57 people on February 28. When he petitioned National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to...
19 Apr 2023, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most Tesla fans take Elon Musk's words at face value. They believed him when he said the BEV maker would have 1 million robotaxis on the streets in 2020. They trusted him when he affirmed Teslas would become appreciating assets due to FSD. Jas...
18 Apr 2023, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian has been pretty quiet after it announced it would invest $5 billion in a factory close to Atlanta, Georgia. The company has been fighting to increase production in its plant in Normal, Illinois, but it may also have to do with the fierce opp...
18 Apr 2023, 18:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Chris Harris said in June 2020 that he thought the Model 3 was brilliant, but was afraid to buy one. The British journalist did not want to be part of the "Tesla club." When Matt Farah said it was a little culty, Harris added that they ma...