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30 Dec 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With all cases involving drivers sleeping at the wheel of Tesla vehicles, the company decided to make it more difficult to trick Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. It would no longer be possible to place weights on the steering to pretend the driver ...
29 Dec 2022, 17:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hydrolocks are an old phenomenon with combustion-engined vehicles, but most drivers still fail to understand how it happens. That’s what makes so many try their luck crossing flooded areas without even knowing the depth of that area. A viral ...
29 Dec 2022, 13:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people still believe there is high demand for Tesla vehicles, but that is not true. So much so that Tesla offered 10,000 miles of free Supercharging and a $7,500 discount to those taking delivery of their cars until December 31. Ironically, Te...
29 Dec 2022, 09:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Canoo started manufacturing its vehicles and delivering them to Walmart in August, it seemed that it had relegated several doubts about its viability to the past. Binding orders appeared to confirm that. However, the company does not want to l...
28 Dec 2022, 20:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already told you that BYD’s new premium brand will make its premiere on January 5, 2023. Although that is next week, Yangwang keeps releasing teasers on Weibo about the R1, or whatever the new brand decides to call its off-roader. The...
28 Dec 2022, 12:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 8, Sono Motors shared that market conditions could prevent its solar hatchback from seeing daylight anytime soon. To get there, the Sono Sion would need 3,500 fully-paid units in 50 days – until January 27, 2023. Sixteen days late...
28 Dec 2022, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / CATL’s first factory outside China is in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany. It is even named with a different acronym: CATT, for Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH. The Chinese manufacturer announced it started manufacturing lithium-io...
28 Dec 2022, 00:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I repeated a crucial question six times in editorials, plenty of people got mad. Predictably: too many are betting too much on a model that already showed signs that it might fail miserably. You can’t have a single component in a vehicle...
27 Dec 2022, 21:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Until very recently, we had never heard of anyone making new battery packs for old cars. The only way to keep them alive was to find a used battery pack for a price that made sense. That is about to change when EVs Enhanced starts delivering its 16...
27 Dec 2022, 17:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must already be familiar with Tom Zhu. Bloomberg reported on December 8 that the Chinese Tesla executive was in the U.S. to oversee Giga Austin operations and try to improve them. However, news from China shows he will probably stay on American...
26 Dec 2022, 20:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone with British friends will see how much they complain about the lousy quality of the tarmac around there. Ironically, a company from the UK has developed a speedy way to fix potholes. Called Velocity Patching, the enterprise made a machine th...
26 Dec 2022, 17:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Until the 1980s, the Chinese used to move around on bicycles. Having a recent automotive industry did not prevent it from becoming the largest car market in the world. What China still has to prove is that it has talented drivers, but some folks ar...
26 Dec 2022, 11:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As interesting as NIO’s new charging solutions are, the main stars at the NIO Day 2022 were the two vehicles the company promised to introduce. William Li said they would be new vehicles, which is technically correct. However, one of them is ...
26 Dec 2022, 00:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Recharging beyond refueling. This was a motto William Li presented at the NIO Day 2022. The NIO CEO and founder meant that his company aims to make charging more convenient than putting fuel in a tank, which is quite challenging. NIO presented two ...
25 Dec 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The MEB platform does not cease to deliver new electric vehicles to the Volkswagen Group. The next model should be the Volkswagen ID.7, a sedan we formerly knew as Aero B. Cupra fans will have a new option available in 2024: the Tavascan. Curiously...
25 Dec 2022, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There is a long discussion about how Tesla named its two advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Autopilot suggests the car drives itself. Full Self-Driving leaves no margin for any other interpretation. Jennifer Homendy once called that “...
23 Dec 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Semi is seen in two very different ways. Tesla fans and investors celebrate its acceleration times and think it is a revolution. Truck drivers and engineers do not get enough from bashing it – for multiple reasons. John Cadogan refe...
23 Dec 2022, 11:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A new case will bring back the discussion about the legal disclaimers Tesla uses to protect its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The EV maker states that the driver is ultimately responsible for whatever happens when Autopilot or Full Sel...
22 Dec 2022, 23:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we wrote about City Transformer, the Israeli startup did not have a name for its electric city car. It also lacked a production deadline, even if it already had a price tag: €12,000 ($12,719 at the current exchange rate), which w...
22 Dec 2022, 19:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mazda made a pretty big effort to enlighten everyone about its EV strategy. It would only give its vehicles battery packs that were large enough for them to still be great to drive. When it presented the MX-30, all its arguments about how important...