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17 Oct 2022, 12:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever a company starts deliveries of a new vehicle, the main challenge is to reach a pace that will help it deliver all units already ordered. Microlino had more than 30,000 pre-orders the last time we checked. That does not mean the Ouboter fam...
15 Oct 2022, 15:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 29, 2019, BMW announced its new Mini E vehicles would be produced in the city of Zhangjiagang in China’s Jiangsu Province. The 160,000-unit plant that was going to be built there was the result of a joint venture with the Great Wa...
15 Oct 2022, 12:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Dana Brems used to drive a Toyota Prius in college, but she always wanted to have a Tesla. When she became a doctor, she bought one as a gift to herself. Autopilot was a feature Brems loved. On her third drive, her brand-new Model 3 decided to stop...
14 Oct 2022, 20:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla was building Giga Grünheide, it wanted a 4680 cell factory there as well. After all, the German plant would test a “lot of new technology,” as Elon Musk tweeted in 2020. On November 26, 2021, Tesla withdrew its applicati...
14 Oct 2022, 13:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker announced more than a year ago that Magna Steyr would start manufacturing the company’s first electric SUV on November 17, 2022. A little less than a month from that, the startup shared a picture on Twitter that shows the preparations ...
14 Oct 2022, 00:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The presentation of new model years for cars can be pretty bland. Some of them get more equipment, a new color, different taillights, and other minor changes. The MY23 Porsche Taycan would have followed that tradition if it was not for a remarkable...
13 Oct 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Inertia preaches that things will keep quiet or in motion if no external forces mess with them. When carmakers try to fight aerodynamic drag, they are trying to make inertia work as it should. In its most recent video, Lightyear shows another advan...
13 Oct 2022, 10:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sony has come up with a new term for the electric vehicles it plans to sell with Honda. It is calling them “rolling smartphones,” and there is a good reason for that. The company will focus on delivering at least Level 3 autonomy in its...
12 Oct 2022, 20:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The era of “computers on wheels” is being praised by tech fans as something extremely positive. After all, over-the-air (OTA) updates will allow a vehicle to be constantly perfected, getting new features in the blink of an eye. The futu...
12 Oct 2022, 19:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric vehicles are highly efficient machines. Anything that reduces range will do that in a vehicle powered by electric motors. This is probably why Polestar decided to give its new electric SUV a low roof and an amazing drag coefficient of only...
12 Oct 2022, 15:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai introduced its future EV platform in March, but that was just the beginning of laying down its plans for the future. With the Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA), the company solved the hardware needs it will have for its future cars. We ...
12 Oct 2022, 10:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla presented the Model 3, it took reservations from multiple countries where it has not delivered a single unit to this day. Indian customers were furious about this, especially after Tesla decided not to sell in that market: the government...
11 Oct 2022, 23:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we talked about NamX was in May. At the time, we told our readers the French company asked Pininfarina to design a striking SUV powered by hydrogen capsules that could solve the hydrogen refueling network issue FCEVs currently face. I...
11 Oct 2022, 22:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sono Motors promised that the Sion’s production would start in the second half of 2023 and that it would cost €25,126 ($24,395 at the current exchange rate). The price in euros had a pretty good reason: it was supposed to be the only mar...
11 Oct 2022, 21:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January 2014, Elon Musk tweeted this: “The word recall must be recalled.” At the time, the Tesla CEO was trying to deny that an over-the-air (OTA) upgrade was a recall because nobody had to visit a Tesla Service Center to get the rep...
11 Oct 2022, 20:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla was the first car company to also target energy storage systems (ESSs). While that suggests it is a pioneer, that is only the natural consequence of selling massive battery packs. When they lose their utility to vehicles, they are still suita...
11 Oct 2022, 11:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / StoreDot has pretty impressive numbers to brag about with its extreme fast-charging (XFC) cells. They present 300 Wh/kg, 700 Wh/l, and may offer “100in5,” which translates as 100 miles in five minutes. That obviously only makes sense wh...
10 Oct 2022, 19:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Ghosn said – and still repeats – that Nissan got him arrested in Japan in a plot to prevent him from merging it with Renault. Nissan and Japan deny that was the case, but you’ll always have the impression Ghosn is right aft...
10 Oct 2022, 13:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 14, 2021, we wrote that Independent Electric Vehicle had presented its first vehicle, the INDI One. At the time, The Verge also discovered that the company’s founder, Shi Hai, was being sued by three former employees in lawsuits IN...
10 Oct 2022, 10:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It’s been quite a journey to follow the Microlino from its first designs until the first delivery, which happened in August 2022. However, we were still missing learning how it drives and what it feels like to be inside the new electric bubbl...