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18 Oct 2023, 09:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people defend that internal combustion engines (ICEs) still have a role to play in personal transportation, they are correct. Having an electric motor driving the wheels does not necessarily require a massive battery pack, and a lot of people ...
14 Oct 2023, 23:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hydrogen in transportation lives the chicken-or-egg paradox. Companies do not invest in producing this gas for automotive use because there is not enough demand. At the same time, automakers do not put that much money into fuel cells because people...
13 Oct 2023, 16:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stern covered how Giga Grünheide poses a risk to the environment and its employees in a series of articles that now look like just the beginning. The German magazine's reports made waves in the country and unleashed reactions from politic...
12 Oct 2023, 23:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota seems resolute in making battery electric vehicles (BEVs) after it achieved a breakthrough in its quest to make solid-state batteries (SSB). This appears to be what changed the company's strategy around electrification. Curiously, one o...
12 Oct 2023, 09:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 6, a car hauler with 6 Tesla Model Ys faced a fire that destroyed all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Turkey. On the same day, another blaze destroyed 14 cars at the Chambéry Tesla Service Center in France. Although there is a...
11 Oct 2023, 07:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote in July about how money bears no passport, I made a question that stood there, waiting to be answered. Is Stellantis French? Or is it Italian? Perhaps American, considering it owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and RAM… I left it there...
10 Oct 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian admitted during its Q3 earnings report that it loses around $33,000 per vehicle it sells. RJ Scaringe now wants to cut production costs by $40,000, which would give the company a $7,000 profit per unit. This report from the Wall Street Journ...
8 Oct 2023, 18:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first saw the pictures of the Lynk & Co Zero Concept three years ago, I thought the car was stunning. It was obvious that it deserved to reach production lines, which it did in a rather surprising way. When I learned I would have the cha...
7 Oct 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most car buyers look at modern cars as if they worked like old ones. Nothing is further from the truth, especially when you talk about door handles. Battery electric cars were the first ones to ditch a mechanical connection between them and the loc...
6 Oct 2023, 10:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Files would have been a massive scandal if the name of the company involved was different. It would have also reached more people if it were not written in German – despite the amazing work Handelsblatt has done and is still doing. ...
4 Oct 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / By now, you know pretty well how Elon Musk decided to call Twitter after purchasing it. When the Tesla CEO announced his social media would become X, I felt tempted to compare that move to what Eike Batista used to do. The former Brazilian billiona...
3 Oct 2023, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You may have only heard about ZEEKR due to the 001. Until recently, it was also the only car this Geely brand said it would sell abroad, but that changed when the X emerged. Not Elon Musk's definition for Twitter, mind you, but the ZEEKR X, a ...
2 Oct 2023, 09:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid didn't like it when I said that Hansjörg von Germmingen-Hornberg had bought an Air to escape his problems with Tesla just to discover the startup is also getting sued in Germany. It said it was not true that the man who drove a Tesl...
30 Sep 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I've only recently read an article from Bloomberg that really got me thinking. Written by Colin McKerracher, its title is "Electric Cars Are Winning Out Because of Consumers, Not Politicians." When you check only the title, you get t...
30 Sep 2023, 11:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla's Megapacks are allegedly a sustainable way to prevent carbon emissions in the power grid. If it were not for them, some places would probably have to stick to thermal power plants that run on natural gas or coal. Sadly, Megapacks have b...
30 Sep 2023, 11:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our Next Energy (ONE) already said out loud that it does not believe in NMC. The chemistry mixes nickel and cobalt, which would make the cells that use it prone to thermal runaways, which the average Joe knows simply as fires. In a new video, the b...
26 Sep 2023, 10:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is ironic that similar processes can bring diverse conclusions. Sandy Munro has torn down a few Tesla vehicles and was more often fascinated by the company's engineering solutions than by the flaws he and his team discovered. Another teardo...
25 Sep 2023, 08:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Slow news days offer an excellent opportunity to analyze random facts that match as puzzle pieces would. When it comes to Tesla, that is usually the only resource available for painting the bigger picture. In its early days, the company was as prai...
23 Sep 2023, 08:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we discuss electric cars, there's a clear preference for vehicles that work at 800V because they can be lighter and charge faster. The issue is that the higher voltage can be a safety issue for human beings. As a matter of fact, even 400V...
22 Sep 2023, 16:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We often watch movies that show how big corporations know the damage they are causing but prefer to hide them under the rug to tell people they are safe. Dark Waters and Thank You for Smoking are two great examples. We will probably see another one...