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16 Dec 2022, 16:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 15, we told our readers about what happened to Dana Brems in her brand-new Model 3. The doctor got stranded in the middle of the I-5 highway. That almost also happened to Thomas George Exton, a British YouTuber and entrepreneur known as ...
15 Dec 2022, 23:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nikola is already delivering battery electric trucks – way earlier than Tesla – but its main goal was always to sell fuel cell electric trucks and to develop a hydrogen refueling infrastructure to support them. The startup announced on ...
15 Dec 2022, 20:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jeremy Clarkson made an iconic video with the Ariel Atom in which his face got deformed by wind and acceleration. We suspect that Mat Watson only missed the chance to repeat that because he is a lot younger than Clarkson, and also due to the McMurt...
15 Dec 2022, 17:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Amsterdam is a curious city. It is the capital of the Netherlands, but the seat of the Dutch government is in Hague. It is also where Lucid has its European headquarters, but not where it set up the first Studio. That primacy belongs to Hilversum, ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems that Vicki Bryan was right in her predictions about how Twitter can damage Tesla. The Bond Angle founder wrote that Elon Musk has a pattern of milking his profitable endeavors to fund others, and we have more evidence that this is the case...
15 Dec 2022, 00:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla stock keeps dropping in value. While several people think this has to do with Elon Musk’s involvement with Twitter, there is plenty more to blame. Quality problems and a drop in interest from consumers are more critical factors. One of ...
14 Dec 2022, 22:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Wild animals can have really wild interactions with human beings. Sometimes, they may surprise you just while making something so simple as adjusting air vents. This is probably what happened to a 34-year-old woman in Montes Claros, Brazil: a small...
14 Dec 2022, 17:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla vehicles may be adored by some of their owners, but they have their fair share of problems, most of them caused by manufacturing defects. However, the way they work may also cause issues, as some owners are currently discovering due to heavy ...
14 Dec 2022, 10:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Lucid Air started its career with LG Energy Solution cells in the 2170 cylindrical form factor. That’s the same one Tesla and Panasonic created for the Model 3. On the other hand, LGES pouch cells were what the Hyundai Kona Electric and C...
13 Dec 2022, 23:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 19, 2021, we wrote that Tesla was charging $1,500 from its Full Self-Driving customers to give them the hardware the EV maker and Elon Musk promised they would have since April 22, 2019, on – or October 19, 2016, as a blog post on Tes...
13 Dec 2022, 16:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In an era of driving aid offering more convenience, some episodes show automakers must be really careful with how these systems work. A HAVAL H6 driver learned about that the hard way when a short 137-mile (220-kilometer) trip had to stretch to 348...
12 Dec 2022, 22:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A while ago, we wrote about Elon Musk’s claims that a Semi went from Fremont to San Diego with an 81,000 gross vehicle weight (GVW). Either it is much heavier than the EV maker wants to admit, or that 500-mile trip with that GVW is not true. ...
12 Dec 2022, 18:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Rivian and Mercedes-Benz announced they would produce electric vans together in September, that looked like a pretty smart move. The startup would not invest in a new factory, the German carmaker would have a partner in one of its existing pla...
9 Dec 2022, 19:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 15, we told our readers that Tesla was being sued by Briggs Matsko. This customer was fed up with the company’s promises about Full Self-Driving (FSD) and with Elon Musk repeatedly saying that robotaxis would arrive "next ye...
9 Dec 2022, 10:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the U.S., Honda established a partnership with General Motors to use the Ultium platform and start selling at least one EV: the Prologue. In Europe, it created the Honda e, which is not exactly a best seller. That’s because the company wil...
9 Dec 2022, 07:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid started its career with a remarkably efficient new EV. Despite Air’s qualities, autoevolution readers know they were not enough to prevent several flaws presented by the electric sedan, some of which are making customers give up on buyi...
8 Dec 2022, 22:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker is now trying to drive people’s attention to the Personal Electric Automotive Revolution (PEAR). The company’s CEO and founder took it for a spin in Los Angeles, still under a light disguise, as we showed in a previous article. Y...
8 Dec 2022, 19:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sono Motors made an American tour with the Sion to introduce it to new customers. It was almost as if the company was also wondering about selling it in the U.S. That makes the company’s latest move quite surprising: the German startup said i...
8 Dec 2022, 15:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk recently tweeted that the Tesla Semi drove 500 miles with a gross vehicle weight (GVW) of 81,000 pounds. Tesla eventually released a timelapse showing the eight-hour trip from Fremont to San Diego in only two minutes. It would prove that ...
7 Dec 2022, 19:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 28, 2021, we talked about NIUTRON for the first time. It was the brainchild of Yinan Li, a founder of NIU. On January 14, the company presented the NV, an electric SUV with its own platform called Gemini. NIUTRON was expected to start d...