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16 Nov 2022, 14:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What scares most customers about electric cars is that they are not mature enough. The cell technology they present demands a lot of time to charge their battery packs or aggressive fast charging sessions that reduce their lifespans. Solid-state ce...
16 Nov 2022, 10:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) started demanding automakers provide crash data involving advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Tesla vehicles have led the number of fatal crashes. The latest batch of data adds...
15 Nov 2022, 22:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Construction workers that helped Tesla build Giga Austin have filed serious lab complaints against the EV maker with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), part of the federal Department of Labor. According to the workers, they h...
15 Nov 2022, 14:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In December 2021, Ralf Brandstätter led the Volkswagen brand, and Herbert Diess ruled the Volkswagen Group. Rumor had it that the former would replace the latter, but Brandstätter was assigned a new job: running the group’s operatio...
15 Nov 2022, 11:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Foxconn is on a quest to show it can manufacture electric cars for anyone willing to sell them. It already presented several electric vehicles based on the MIH Open Platform, such as the Model E (an E-segment sedan), Model T (a bus), Model V (a tru...
15 Nov 2022, 10:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The world needs Scouts. This is the slogan Volkswagen chose to promote its new brand. The German brand has tried to increase its presence in the American market for several years and never got truly competitive until it decided to sell the vehicles...
14 Nov 2022, 20:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we told you that Micro had chosen the Astara Group to distribute the Microlino in Spain and Germany, we were left with a few doubts. In other markets, the Spanish group may only distribute vehicles or distribute some brands and retail others. ...
14 Nov 2022, 17:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A shocking crash that took place in Chaozhou put Tesla in hot water in China. A former professional truck driver tried to park his Model Y in front of the cement store he runs in that city. He claims that the EV did not stop and accelerated for 2.6...
14 Nov 2022, 11:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid’s quality issues are making more headlines. After we published the problems the company is facing with the Air on October 7, Business Insider confirmed that by interviewing 19 owners of the electric sedan, checking complaints to the Nat...
12 Nov 2022, 11:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If there is one thing automakers protect with their own lives is the profit margins on each car. Luxury vehicles can have fatter ones, while entry-level vehicles have to sell millions to make the same amount of money. For publicly-traded companies,...
11 Nov 2022, 23:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla faced fierce resistance from Grünheide residents when building its factory in Germany. The locals said the EV plant would deplete precious water supplies in the region and could contaminate them. A leak in April seemed to confirm their c...
11 Nov 2022, 17:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Bollinger Motors has been announcing news at a fast pace. First, it disclosed Mullen bought it. Later, it said this purchase would allow it to build the B1 and B2. The last we wrote about them was their association with Wabash for commercial vehicl...
11 Nov 2022, 13:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We were so confident that Toyota would reveal the fifth-generation Prius on November 16 that we did not deal with it as a mere possibility. If you think it through, what else could better represent “Hybrid Reborn” than the car that crea...
11 Nov 2022, 10:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automotive industry is not an easy environment. Its products are not only pretty complex: any defects on them may represent a major safety threat. This is why most carmakers follow at least one certification system to establish their quality ma...
10 Nov 2022, 18:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Microlino reservation holders in Spain and Germany will start receiving their electric bubble cars at the beginning of 2023. Ironically, that is good news not only for these markets but also for 17 other countries on 3 continents. That’s beca...
10 Nov 2022, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Dana Brems’ story with her brand-new Tesla Model 3 got quickly famous for how serious it was. She had driven it for a few hundred miles when it stopped in the left lane of the I-5 freeway after a blind corner. That could have caused a massive...
9 Nov 2022, 19:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As you may have already read, the Euro NCAP Vision 2030 roadmap was disappointing in the sense that it did not address the organization’s main issue: dealing with computers on wheels and the software updates they will receive. On the other ha...
9 Nov 2022, 19:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Euro NCAP is in hot water after the white-hat hacker GreenTheOnly revealed that vehicles tested by the entity had specially provisioned computers and firmware that could only be considered in production because it was installed in a handful of cars...
9 Nov 2022, 13:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ferdinand Porsche conceived a hybrid vehicle in 1900. The Lohner-Porsche Mixed Hybrid was so modern that it took 97 years for any automaker to follow the recipe. Toyota was the hybrid pioneer with the Prius, but the technology grew so popular that ...
9 Nov 2022, 11:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Elon Musk closed the deal to buy Twitter to prevent being forced to do so, a massive question mark was still left behind: how did he fund that? There were some calculations about that, but he was expected to sell more Tesla stock than he alre...