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6 Jan 2023, 15:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is clearly facing a demand problem in its two major markets: the U.S. and China. Disappointing sales numbers in Q4 2022 and also in December alone led to something Tesla denied it would do again in China: reduce prices. It had already done th...
5 Jan 2023, 23:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Many automakers promised to attack the pickup truck segment with electric vehicles. Rivian arrived first, but it was Ford that tackled it with an affordable option: the F-150 Lightning. Anyone arriving late will have to come up with something bette...
5 Jan 2023, 22:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever an electric vehicle with off-road ambitions arrives, people often ask if it can perform tank turns. Rivian promised that with the R1T in a video, but the production version did not offer that. BYD may become the first company to sell a veh...
5 Jan 2023, 16:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear is proving to be a surprising startup. Production of the Lightyear 0 started in Finland in December, and it will release the Lightyear 2 waitlist on January 5. What we did not expect was to see the first images of the company’s affo...
4 Jan 2023, 23:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 29, we told our readers that Tesla was using bad weather as an excuse to backtrack its promises of a $7,500 discount and 10,000 miles of free Supercharging for everyone who bought their EVs until December 31. GJK started a thread on a F...
4 Jan 2023, 19:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / An article from Kevin Williams for Jalopnik made the rounds on December 14 after he called it: the VinFast VF 8 is not ready for America. His quick contact with the EV in Vietnam was enough for him to say it was underdeveloped and unfinished. Now t...
4 Jan 2023, 16:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is not very fond of communication. It closed its PR department years ago and never replies to the press. Sometimes, even Tesla customers need help to talk to the company. That is what makes a recent blog post a mysterious move from the EV mak...
4 Jan 2023, 11:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone following the automotive industry for a while has heard of Carl-Peter Forster. The executive was a BMW board member for manufacturing. A bit later, he joined GM as the European division president, Tata as the CEO, and Gordon Murray Design. S...
3 Jan 2023, 21:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk said Tesla would grow 50% every year, but delivered only 40% more EVs in 2022 than in 2021. BYD did not set targets – at least that we are aware of – but handed 184% more BEVs to customers last year than in 2021. And the compa...
3 Jan 2023, 17:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we say that Tesla's issues are so varied and frequent that it is challenging to keep up with them, the EV maker’s advocates (most of them stockholders) rush to deny the reports. Either they point fingers at companies with seemingly ...
2 Jan 2023, 22:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January 2022, Elon Musk said Tesla would grow 50% that year and would repeat that percentage annually. After it released Q4 2022 results, we can say that’s another target the CEO set for his company and missed. Unlike robotaxis, Tesla was ...
1 Jan 2023, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / ZEEKR announced in November that it would sell the 001 and other products in Europe starting in 2023. While that was good news for European customers (more options are always nice), we were more curious about CATL’s Qilin CTP 3.0 battery pack...
1 Jan 2023, 15:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a long history of clashes with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Its constant efforts to prevent unionizing are at the core of most of them, but the latest one is new. NLRB said the EV maker violated labor laws after forbidding e...
1 Jan 2023, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When two Aptera workers drove the Gamma prototype in a video, we confirmed that the solar trike would have at least three Tesla characteristics that could compromise the driving experience it would offer. The central screen that concentrates most f...
31 Dec 2022, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Among Tesla’s recurrent issues, one of the most prevailing is sudden unintended acceleration (SUA). As much as people like Jason Hughes deny it is even possible, the frequency they present shows there is something going on that even the Tesla...
31 Dec 2022, 16:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I found a recent discussion on a Facebook group quite interesting these days. Someone was asking if the now frequent bashing against Elon Musk was not a plan from the evil mainstream media to hurt Tesla. I could not resist and replied that none of ...
31 Dec 2022, 10:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / DeLorean Motors Reimagined (DMR) presented its Alpha5 concept car around the same time its main executives got sued by Karma Automotive. That was back in August. We had not heard much about that until now when DMR decided it was the right time to c...
30 Dec 2022, 20:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We wrote about the lawsuit Canoo filed against Harbinger based on what Business Insider reported, but there is nothing like going to the source to learn all nuances such legal action can involve. In this case, the source came to autoevolution to re...
30 Dec 2022, 16:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is frequently praised for having the world's most reliable and extensive fast-charging network. Not long ago, it was also cherished by its service level, comparable at the time to that offered by Lexus, BMW, and other premium brands. Whe...
30 Dec 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk used to bash Bob Lutz for saying Tesla would eventually go bankrupt. Ironically, he plays the same tune for Rivian and Lucid, saying that they will ultimately break and that Lucid is “not long for this world.” What he doesn&rs...