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31 Jan 2023, 08:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The first electric car to reach 1 million units was the Tesla Model 3 in June 2021. The Model Y probably achieved that number at some point in 2022, but the American EV maker did not celebrate that as it should. Wuling did not make that mistake. On...
30 Jan 2023, 18:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If Tesla were fishing to catch competitors with its price reduction strategy, it would be happy to learn that at least a few took the bait. Kia said it would never reduce the prices of its current EVs – which have a long waiting line for them...
30 Jan 2023, 16:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla used to have steering wheels on the Model S, but replaced them with a yoke. After negative feedback on the idea, it brought back the steering wheel, so it may sound surprising that another Tesla lost its steering wheel. However, what happened...
30 Jan 2023, 14:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 19, 2018, Carlos Ghosn arrived at the Tokyo airport in his private jet and was immediately arrested. He was trying to create a more solid deal than the alliance he forged between Renault and Nissan. On January 30, 2023, the two companie...
30 Jan 2023, 12:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit did not talk about Tesla for a long time. The last time he did that was to mention how he gave his daughter a Honda Accord to replace Delores because his Model S did not make financial sense anymore: the air suspension collapsed, and th...
30 Jan 2023, 08:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most EV advocates are happy that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) brought back the federal tax credit to all car companies (including Tesla). However, senator Joe Manchin is not happy with how people and even the U.S. government are dealing with t...
29 Jan 2023, 17:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla faces a second jury trial against Owen Diaz, it will not get to deny the racist environment African American workers face in Fremont: that was already proven by the former judgment. All Tesla may try to escape is another record-breaking ...
29 Jan 2023, 15:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I followed the CES 2023, I thought that BMW must have felt like that lady who spent a fortune on a new dress for a cool party and found another woman there dressing exactly like her. I thought Peugeot was the other woman. BMW’s dress was...
29 Jan 2023, 11:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On January 2, Dharmesh Arvind Patel put his wife, Neha Bubna Patel, and their two children in his Tesla Model Y and did not return home that day. The family plunged off a cliff with the EV on Highway 1 in an area called “Devil’s Slide.&...
28 Jan 2023, 20:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear was at the 2023 CES and presented a prototype of the Lightyear 2 there. The company also had the Lightyear 0 at the event, and everything seemed bright until it announced it would stop production of the world’s first solar car. The ...
28 Jan 2023, 18:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The life of solar vehicles is not going well in 2023. Sono Motors did not meet its plan to keep the Sion development alive, but it will not kill it anyway. Lightyear did not have that chance with the Lightyear 0. Aptera disclosed its Launch Edition...
28 Jan 2023, 15:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / For a company that was recently brought back from the dead, FreZe has a lot of stories to tell. From its original idea of selling the affordable Wuling Hongguang Mini EV in Europe, it went through a partnership breakup and an entirely new project: ...
28 Jan 2023, 12:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / First, the Autopilot director confirmed that a 2016 video about the system was staged. After that, Bloomberg learned that Elon Musk said the footage had to “feel like one continuous take” and dictated misleading sentences about what it ...
28 Jan 2023, 09:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is not a luxury brand apart from its prices and, back in the day, the service level it provided. Tesla Service Centers were famous for going the extra mile to please its customers. That all changed when the Model 3 was introduced. NIO is a lu...
27 Jan 2023, 22:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have written several times about how difficult Tesla vehicles are to repair. Concerned with maximizing Tesla Service Center times, the EV maker often charges a fortune to replace complete modules when swapping a single part would do the trick. R...
27 Jan 2023, 19:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jean-Philippe Imparato went to Japan for the presentation of the Alfa Romeo Tonale to that market. Automotive News seized the opportunity to chat with the brand CEO and confirmed that Alfa Romeo is already working on a large EV for the American mar...
27 Jan 2023, 16:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Geely is an automotive titan which controls Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, Lynk & Co, smart, ZEEKR, and several other companies and joint ventures. The best example of how extensive the company is probably came from spy shots Chinese bloggers made wit...
27 Jan 2023, 12:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When it comes to autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), nobody has gone further than Honda and Mercedes-Benz. In the U.S., the pioneer in Level 3 systems is the German automaker, which just obtained a Nevada certification...
26 Jan 2023, 19:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Back in December, Sono Motors announced that it would be forced to suspend the Sion development. Unless the 50-day campaign raised €104.65 million ($113.75 million at the current exchange rate), the solar hatchback would have to be put on hold...
26 Jan 2023, 17:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automotive world has a few paradoxes to solve, but one of the most crucial nowadays is the one involving hydrogen distribution and fuel cells that need it. Which should come first? Selling vehicles that lack fueling infrastructure is impossible...