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30 Sep 2022, 14:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mario Zelaya helped us discover that early Model S units had a water-ingress issue with their battery packs, he was outraged. Tesla had thrown away an essential piece of evidence without his consent: the steel fuse box cover. Another Model S o...
30 Sep 2022, 09:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Geely seems to never cease to expand. It is not only presenting new brands of its own such as ZEEKR and Radar but also has an appetite for iconic western automakers. After buying Volvo and Lotus and getting a share of Mercedes-Benz, the company now...
29 Sep 2022, 21:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fiat founded its factory in Tychy, Poland, in 1971. Since its foundation, the plant has managed to produce 12.5 million vehicles, a landmark it achieved this September 29. The 12.5 millionth car made there was a Fiat 500 Dolcevita, which is now on ...
29 Sep 2022, 16:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the white-hat hacker GreenTheOnly revealed Tesla’s Autopilot code could recognize tests, Tesla investors were more concerned about giving a reasonable explanation than the EV maker. In fact, Tesla has publicly ignored what the hacker rev...
29 Sep 2022, 13:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Citroën recently decided it would have a nostalgic new badge, probably eager to recover what it was known for with the 2CV: offering comfortable, quirky, and affordable family cars. The concept vehicle in charge of presenting this new logo com...
29 Sep 2022, 10:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Since we started writing about NIO, something has always made us curious: the battery pack swap conditions. Was it exclusive for those who opted for Battery as a Service (BaaS), or any NIO owner could swap the battery pack? According to CNEVPost, N...
28 Sep 2022, 22:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Multiple companies have the bad habit of downplaying their customers’ intelligence. They offer lame excuses for things that people with two working neurons will figure out in a heartbeat. However, in more than 20 years of covering the automot...
28 Sep 2022, 16:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD revealed its strategy to sell electric cars in Europe. The first three models to be sold in eight countries, including Norway, will be the Han EV, Tang, and ATTO 3. The C-segment SUV will arrive at a pretty competitive price: €38,000 ($36,...
27 Sep 2022, 22:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla never ceases to take measures that are difficult to explain in a rational way. Not long ago, it based all its new products on a new cell – the 4680 – that promised to give it a unique competitive edge. Years later, the first teard...
27 Sep 2022, 21:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, multiple countries argued that the new federal tax credit that it established was protectionist. Among these countries is South Korea, which will defend Hyundai’s and Kia’s interests as...
27 Sep 2022, 18:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen uses LG Energy Solution (LGES) cells in its ID family. After the Korean supplier had issues with the Chevrolet Bolt EV and the Hyundai Kona Electric, it was a surprise that the electric cars from the German carmaker escaped them. To be f...
27 Sep 2022, 11:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ask Tesla investors about the company's advantages over legacy automakers, and many will say direct sales rule. They claim that people love the experience of buying a vehicle for fixed prices and receiving them at home. The 2022 EVForward Deal...
26 Sep 2022, 22:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A Tesla Model 3 caught fire in an underground car parking located in the Passatge de Mas de Roda, Poblenou, Barcelona. Although the first reports about the blaze state that it involved a Model S, we can tell it is, in fact, the more affordable seda...
26 Sep 2022, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In July, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation about Cruise, GM’s autonomous vehicle company. With autonomous cabs operating in San Francisco, the company already faced some issues, with several of...
26 Sep 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Several Model S owners in the U.S. decided to sue Tesla in 2019 when it capped the cell voltage in their cars. After they accepted the EV maker’s proposal to settle, we thought everything would end there. However, David Rasmussen got in touch...
26 Sep 2022, 09:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 19, we told our readers about a new electric coupe that BYD would be developing for its luxury brand called R (for Revolution). We regret to inform you that the rumors spread on the Chinese media were false. On the other hand, the elec...
25 Sep 2022, 10:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SAIC is a Chinese titan. It has joint ventures with GM and Volkswagen and owns MG, Wuling, Maxus, and Rising Auto, a brand we wrote about fairly recently. SAIC also owns Baojun, which sells an electric car called KiWi EV. The company’s next v...
25 Sep 2022, 07:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s a famous video circulating on the Internet for quite some time of Donald Trump warning Germany about Russian. If you have never seen it, it’s embedded below. Everything happened at the 2018 United Nations (UN) General Assembly d...
24 Sep 2022, 15:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Suspension issues with Tesla vehicles keep popping up at a concerning rate. That is why Meyle HD decided to develop a new upper control arm for the Model 3 and Model Y. However, the German spare parts manufacturer should also consider the Model S a...
24 Sep 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mullen bought Bollinger mainly because that would help it sell the B1 and B2, two vehicles that the Mullen CEO confessed to loving. However, Bollinger is increasingly showing that Mullen will get more for its money. The company's latest announ...