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17 Jan 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / José Saramago once shared a fantastic lesson on knowledge. He used to go to the opera house in Lisbon and sit in a high part, where he could see a crown that most people thought was magnificent. His perspective gave an utterly opposite impre...
17 Jan 2023, 09:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have several car brands all over the world. However, there are not so many automakers: 13 car manufacturers control 54 of the most influential brands. Some of them can have 14 brands (like Stellantis). This is why StoreDot has a surprising numbe...
16 Jan 2023, 17:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Stellantis started teasing the eC3 on Citroën’s official Indian website, we thought the vehicle would only emerge closer to its deliveries, initially expected to start in March. Surprisingly, the carmaker did not wait that long to ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Battery electric cars and renewable energy sources could be perfect partners: the battery packs could store energy whenever it is produced and deliver it at peak hours. The only problem with that is discovering who pays the bill when the battery pa...
15 Jan 2023, 17:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When someone becomes the world’s richest man, it is hard to state he is a loser. Yet, that is precisely what Guinness World Records acknowledged when it gave Elon Musk the title of biggest wealth loser in history. By losing more than $182 bil...
14 Jan 2023, 20:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Citroën decided it would also sell an affordable electric vehicle in India, and it is not the Ami. The company is now talking about the eC3 on its official Indian website, and the teaser may confirm the rumors that it will be presented in Marc...
14 Jan 2023, 14:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the legal litigation world, there are some measures taken only to gain time. This seems to be exactly what Elon Musk’s lawyers tried to do when they asked a federal court in San Francisco to move the securities fraud trial he would face th...
14 Jan 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I recently sold my plug-in hybrid. Although the BMW 225xe was the best car I have ever owned by a wide margin, it had a ridiculous EV range: only 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) – or so said the onboard computer. I suspect it was less than that. W...
13 Jan 2023, 18:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla claims massive profits per car in each quarter, the only independent element backing that up is PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). The external auditing company verifies the accounting and tells the stock market and its regulators if everythi...
13 Jan 2023, 12:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volvo introduced the EX90, another vehicle was teased at the event. It was a much smaller EV than the EX90. Jim Rowan later confirmed Volvo would call it the EX30 and that it would make it in China to keep it affordable. If it is made in China...
12 Jan 2023, 20:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automotive world is packed with rumors that never turn out to be true. Some are pretty obvious, such as startups that promise bold things without any proof to back up their claims. Some others are more complex, coming from companies that really...
11 Jan 2023, 22:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from a few exceptions, most of the world’s population is more worried about what to eat the next day than about climate change. For these folks, having a vehicle is a luxury; those able to buy a reliable 20-year-old jalopy are fortunate...
11 Jan 2023, 18:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla’s recent blog post about its footprint in California starts to make more and more sense. The EV maker is in a legal dispute with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) after the agency accused Tesla of “sy...
11 Jan 2023, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever we tell a story, no words will be more emblematic than the images of what happened. You can see that pretty clearly with our story about a pileup in San Francisco, more precisely on Interstate 80 east of the Bay Bridge. A Tesla Model S sud...
11 Jan 2023, 00:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sometimes, going after more information from an automaker is useless. It reveals a new vehicle or a concept car and holds back essential data. Thankfully, suppliers are frequently willing to share more about their work and help us learn more about ...
10 Jan 2023, 17:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / “The Return of Those Who Never Left” is the ironic title of a movie that was never shot. It is often used as a joke for persistent situations that never get solved. Should Neill Blomkamp decide to direct such a movie, we already know hi...
10 Jan 2023, 12:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / StoreDot has quite a lot of targets for the next ten years. By 2024, it wants to start deliveries of its XFC cell 100in5, which will be able to recover 100 miles of charge in five minutes. By 2028, 100in3 semi-solid-state batteries should be availa...
10 Jan 2023, 09:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Despite new accidents involving Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (some of them fatal – as the EV maker itself regularly discloses), Tesla does not seem to get enough trouble from them. If it were not enough for the company to be under federal ...
9 Jan 2023, 17:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We wrote a while ago that all Tesla issues we have covered so far never seem to get fixed: people just get bored with the repetition and decide to jump into the following problem. That is also the impression Philip Koopman has after checking a vide...
7 Jan 2023, 20:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A video went viral in Brazil on WhatsApp and Twitter after showing how easy it was to steal the headlights of a Porsche Panamera. A single thief took care of everything in only 14 seconds, as you can see in the video embedded below. If you count...