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22 Dec 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD confirmed the rumors about two new brands at the beginning of December. One of them will be called Yangwang in China, but it is not clear if it will keep that name in its international career or even if BYD wants to sell these cars abroad. We m...
21 Dec 2022, 23:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone who is following Aptera’s resurrection as an EV maker will tell you it is strangely close to Tesla. The central screen in the Model 3 and Model Y is the most visible evidence, but the solar trike also uses and defends the North America...
21 Dec 2022, 18:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone used to celebrating Christmas will find it strange that NIO chose to host its main event on December 24. However, it seems that the company had precisely that in mind when it decided to present two new cars and its third-generation Power Swa...
21 Dec 2022, 11:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla presented its own insurance policy, the company’s advocates saw that as an innovative move. It was more of a survival measure to keep the company’s EVs more desirable: other insurance companies were charging a large amount of...
21 Dec 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Chevrolet Bolt EV became the U.S. electric car bargain after a massive battery pack recall made its prices drop considerably. A manufacturing defect could set them on fire: LG Energy Solution spent almost $2 billion replacing the faulty compone...
21 Dec 2022, 00:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Akio Toyoda went to Thailand himself to present two new pickup truck concepts. While talking to the audience, he tried to explain, once again, that he is not against EVs: he just thinks it is not a “one-size-fits-all.” He also seized th...
20 Dec 2022, 21:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape announced on October 27 which was the proprietary format it had developed. The hybrid between pouch and prismatic cells would allow its solid-state concept to expand uniaxially without concerns. Before the year’s end, the battery...
20 Dec 2022, 17:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In November, Aptera revealed the body components for its solar trike would be made in Modena. To be more specific, C.P.C. Srl will produce them and send them to the Carlsbad factory in California. However, the latest Aptera video about the vehicle ...
20 Dec 2022, 12:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 24, we reminded our readers of an epic 2010 car commercial in which a granny sold her Volkswagen Golf to a father and a son. The hilarious bit was that they thought they were looking at a legitimate “lady-driven” car (in mint...
20 Dec 2022, 10:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our readers will remember that SpaceX fired nine employees after they wrote an open letter urging Elon Musk to stop tweeting because that was “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment" for the company and its employees. The sto...
19 Dec 2022, 23:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai once said that it would not sell the Kona in Korea anymore because of the fire incidents it faced. It was possibly talking only about the last generation. Although the company did not confirm if the second generation will also be sold in it...
19 Dec 2022, 21:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are several unusual automotive companies around, but nanoFlowcell (NFC) is probably one of the most unconventional. It was founded in 1996, and we have never heard it sold anything, even after presenting three prototypes. The latest one celeb...
19 Dec 2022, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Cell-to-pack (CTP) is a simple and ingenious way to increase energy density in battery packs. You just fill it with batteries instead of putting modules there. Cell-to-body (CTB) is even more radical. SVOLT decided it wanted a piece of this pie wit...
18 Dec 2022, 08:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I started covering electric cars, I was sure it would be the future. We would all be driving computers on wheels that would be safe, convenient, efficient, environmentally neutral, and economically feasible. But that was not what I found out a...
18 Dec 2022, 08:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Current battery electric cars have either massive battery packs or ridiculously low ranges. Despite the obvious issues with the mass increase in vehicles, EV advocates always claim that there is nothing more efficient than batteries to store energy...
18 Dec 2022, 08:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The idea of permanently avoiding gas stations seems attractive to most people wondering about EVs, especially those who can charge these cars at home. However, that may suddenly change if these folks ever plan to make a road trip. Will they have wh...
18 Dec 2022, 08:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do every day. That said, it is commendable that carmakers are trying to make their vehicles as safe as possible. How do electric cars fare in that regard? Although most of these vehicles are get...
18 Dec 2022, 08:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Every day, we get news of climate-change activists throwing flour, paint, or gluing themselves to museums and car dealers to demand the end of fossil fuels. They act as if passenger vehicles were the only evil to fight, the common enemy, the main s...
18 Dec 2022, 08:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The stock market considers Tesla the most valuable car company in the world. Governments in most developed countries are making ICE vehicles illegal to sell starting in 2030 (some even earlier). It is only natural that several carmakers decided to ...
16 Dec 2022, 23:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been telling our readers about quality control issues with Tesla vehicles for years. Everything suggested that Lucid would present better products, but recent reviews and customer complaints show the startup desperately needs to improve. We...