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15 Apr 2023, 18:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lancia once stood for groundbreaking technology. The 1922 Lancia Lambda was the first production car to present a unibody, which is the automotive industry's current standard. The Series 3 Ardea was the first car with a 5-speed manual gearbox ...
14 Apr 2023, 20:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When BYD revealed the Dolphin, I celebrated how cheap that BEV apparently was. Costing RMB96,800 in August 2021, it would be sold for the equivalent of $14,951. With the current exchange rate, that value drops to $14,125 (€12,770). Sadly, the ...
13 Apr 2023, 16:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Han Chao and his certified used Model S P85 in September 2021, I said the verdict from his lawsuit against Tesla was final. I confess I did not count the BEV maker would ask a higher Court in China to try to reverse the decision....
12 Apr 2023, 17:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Morris Garage was famous for its roadsters from the 1930s until its bankruptcy in April 2005. It had the T-Type Midget, the MGA, MGB, RV8, and finally, the MG F and MG TF, which saw MG go bankrupt. Now in the hands of SAIC, the once-British brand w...
12 Apr 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Citroen announced it would give up its hydropneumatic suspension in 2015, I was left wondering what would make the French brand stand out compared to Peugeot or any of its competitors. Andre Citroen gave his name to an innovative car company t...
11 Apr 2023, 09:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently warned it is concerned with how heavy battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are getting. The GMC Hummer EV alone weighs 9,063 pounds (4,103 kilograms). According to the institute, BEVs crashing ...
10 Apr 2023, 17:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You do not have to believe Jesus or Moses (Moshe) to understand the meaning of Easter (Pesach). For the Jewish people, it represents getting back to freedom after generations of slavery in Egypt. For Christians, it symbolizes a path to eternal life...
9 Apr 2023, 19:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As expected, it seems the data privacy scandal involving Tesla that Reuters revealed on April 6 will have more consequences than that one in 2020 related to the computers the EV maker discarded. The surprising bit is how quickly the first lawsuit f...
7 Apr 2023, 18:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I started writing about everything behind the urge to ban internal combustion engines (ICEs), I made sure to include how shallow the discussion is. Some people demand that to happen without even understanding the greenhouse effect or global wa...
6 Apr 2023, 23:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla recently made changes to Sentry Mode in Germany after Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (the Federal Consumer Association, or vzbv) sued the EV maker. The association was concerned with data privacy. Little did it know that something much big...
6 Apr 2023, 11:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Stellantis announced the RAM 1500 REV would have a class-leading range, the “REV” part of its name suggested it would use a range extender to do so. The 2023 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) clarified that. Although a range...
5 Apr 2023, 19:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Horacio Pagani spent quite an interesting time in a Zoom chat on March 29. The “Disegño y Ingeniería” (Design and Engineering) group from Santa Fe, Argentina gets people like Walter de Silva, Frank Stephenson, and several ...
5 Apr 2023, 12:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Owen Diaz worked for Tesla as a contract worker from June 2015 until May 2016. In 2017, he decided to sue the company for facing racism on its premises. The first result was out in October 2021, and it granted Diaz $136.9 million. Tesla appealed an...
5 Apr 2023, 07:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has never sold so many cars in a single quarter as in Q1 2023: 422,875 units. Its fans celebrated it because market analysts believed the company would deliver 421,500 vehicles. That said, the EV maker theoretically beat the expectations. It ...
4 Apr 2023, 11:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Climate change concerns have created a massive distortion when it comes to vehicle emissions. To a large extent, this distortion is what gave birth to Dieselgate. Concerned with carbon, American and European regulators failed to question how Volksw...
3 Apr 2023, 17:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Several people are convinced they should buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) for their next purchase. After all, electric cars are the future, and governments and environmental activists are pushing for such a future to arrive as soon as possible....
31 Mar 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A Recurrent study made the headlines recently. Curiously, it generated multiple interpretations, some of which just took what the company said as a confirmation that battery packs lasted for a long time. It was not what the study revealed: the own ...
30 Mar 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mitsubishi brought back the Eclipse as an SUV, adding a Cross to the nameplate did not prevent fans of the coupe from screaming, “Blasphemy!” Little did we know that it was just the start of a trend that has now affected Renault. T...
29 Mar 2023, 18:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The European Union wants to curb early obsolescence and greenwashing. The idea is to give customers better means to select products that are really aligned with their environmental concerns. Although this need did not emerge from car buyers, the au...
27 Mar 2023, 23:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We often say we can only believe something that is out of the charts when we see it unfolding with our own eyes. Ironically, just after watching that thing, we often say: “I can’t believe it.” An accident filmed and shared by a Te...