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7 Dec 2022, 14:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BlackBerry is an example of rapid success and speedy decline. It was considered unbeatable until Apple released the iPhone and Android smartphones became dominant in their market. The company’s history inspired a book and will become a movie ...
7 Dec 2022, 10:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We’re yet to learn if BYD officially beat Volkswagen in the Chinese market in November. Although we still lack VW’s sales numbers, BYD sold 230,427 vehicles in China last month, quite a leap from the 152,863 units the China Merchants Ba...
6 Dec 2022, 22:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Last weekend, Henrik Fisker decided to take a Fisker PEAR prototype for a spin around Los Angeles. Passersby filmed the lightly disguised vehicle, and the video ended up on Fiskerati’s YouTube channel. On December 6, Fisker sent images of the...
6 Dec 2022, 16:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The future of personal transportation is electric, and the signs are out there for anyone to see. Despite that, there are some symbolic events that make it impossible to deny, such as Mercedes-Benz turning its largest engine plant into a factory fo...
6 Dec 2022, 11:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Trevor Milton was still Nikola’s CEO, the company had an ambitious plan to make hydrogen along the U.S.’s most important roads through power purchase agreements (PPA). They would ensure cheap electricity for Nikola’s electrol...
6 Dec 2022, 09:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / StoreDot used to claim its technology would help make cells last longer even when subject to extremely fast charging cycles. Although they are instrumental for current electric cars to be more practical, they also reduce battery pack lifespan. The ...
5 Dec 2022, 20:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen lost its crown in China to BYD in November. If you think that has to do with BYD selling only battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, some news from the largest car market in the world may offer another possible explanation. A gro...
5 Dec 2022, 14:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Chinese journalist Yan Chang was the first to report that Giga Shanghai would have a production cut. Bloomberg and Reuters heard about that and confirmed the information with their sources: Tesla is indeed lowering production numbers in its Chi...
3 Dec 2022, 22:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Theottle showed us how the Prius and the GT86 could help bring back the Celica with an elegant design and a hybrid powertrain. It is not something the rendering artist heard anywhere: he just wondered what could happen if that was possible. His lat...
3 Dec 2022, 13:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some cars disappear, and nobody notices. Others leave a gap that no other model is able to fulfill, as well as a legion of fans. Ask those folks who love the Toyota Celica if the Japanese carmaker should bring them back. While Toyota does not do th...
2 Dec 2022, 19:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk had to go to court to win the right to be called a Tesla founder. However, that only happened when Martin Eberhard agreed to settle a lawsuit against the Tesla CEO. Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are the ones who founded Tesla in 2003 after...
2 Dec 2022, 16:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz really has an eye on micro campers. With the Marco Polo, it turned the Vito into a camper van, but that was just the beginning. With the long-wheelbase EQT, the German automaker presented the Concept EQT Marco Polo, a vehicle that is ...
2 Dec 2022, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Saying a vehicle reached a new generation is frequently controversial. That usually happened with cars that used new platforms. If the changes were extensive enough, people could accept that even if the architecture was the same. With modular archi...
2 Dec 2022, 10:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera has long championed Tesla’s charging standard as the most elegant and light in the market. It did so even before the EV maker renamed it North American Charging Standard (NACS). The solar trike manufacturer officially announced it woul...
1 Dec 2022, 18:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has another recall to tackle in China. This time, it will have to fix almost half a million cars for a flaw with position lights. According to the American EV maker, the problem was caused by a software glitch that will be fixed – I&rsq...
1 Dec 2022, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear was expected to be the first company ever to deliver a production and road-legal solar car. That expectation was fulfilled on November 30, when the first Lightyear 0 left Valmet Automotive’s assembly lines. Curiously, the same Finni...
30 Nov 2022, 19:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters wanted to check which car company sold more vehicles in China before November ended. The data until November 27 revealed quite a surprise: BYD sold more cars in China than Volkswagen, the historical leader in that market. If the Chinese bra...
30 Nov 2022, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Luxury cars offer something pretty neat: an easier way to get in and out. All it takes is pulling the seat back a little bit and retreating the steering column. When the driver sits and is ready to drive, everything gets back in the positions previ...
29 Nov 2022, 23:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports is a relevant customer reference in the U.S. with its Auto Reliability Survey. This study allows anyone shopping for a car to know that a given model may spend more time in repairs than it should. In its latest edition, the Auto Re...
29 Nov 2022, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In September, Lordstown Motors announced its first two production units for the Endurance, its debut vehicle. Despite that, the electric pickup truck had to wait until now to achieve all necessary certifications for its full homologation. According...