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18 Sep 2022, 14:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 9, Car and Driver came up with pictures of a mysterious sports car Honda could be developing as a new electric two-seater with striking looks. The vehicle looked so modern few would believe it was a concept developed in 2012, as a read...
17 Sep 2022, 10:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must remember our article about the strange code changes Tesla performed to support some advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) testing. We tried to contact two of the traffic safety organizations included in the code: Euro NCAP and the Austr...
16 Sep 2022, 18:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Mujeeb Ijaz said that “we should be worried about the foundation of NCM/NCA,” his company started clarifying what he really meant. The Our Next Energy (ONE) founder later disclosed that its Gemini architecture would be hybrid, wit...
16 Sep 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mario Zelaya bought his then brand-new 2013 Model S Performance almost ten years ago. He drove it for 124,204 kilometers (77,177 miles) until it presented problems on March 8, 2022. Some days later, this Tesla owner learned he would have to pay CAD...
16 Sep 2022, 08:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape’s latest news until now was that it had six automakers on its list of sampling agreements. That means overwhelming support and expectation from car companies about the technology it is developing for solid-state batteries. The ce...
15 Sep 2022, 17:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people may claim that a promise is only unfulfilled if it does not deliver the promised results. When the promise includes a deadline, no excuse makes it valid after it ends. With that in mind, Tesla escaped a lawsuit for a long time after Elo...
15 Sep 2022, 09:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear is yet to start the production of its solar electric sedan. According to its last update, manufacturing should start in Finland in two months. In other words, Valmet Automotive should begin pumping them out by November. If Aptera does not...
13 Sep 2022, 19:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although Nissan presented the new Townstar in December 2021, it only started producing its electric derivative on September 12, 2022. That is quite a lot of wait time for those willing to have the Nissan version of the Renault Kangoo without a comb...
13 Sep 2022, 13:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You will certainly remember how safety tests used to be about checking how a vehicle’s body would protect its passengers in crashes at certain speeds. At some point, pedestrians became a concern as well. Passively protecting them was not enou...
12 Sep 2022, 15:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Startups in the automotive world face an oxymoron more than never these days. They try to offer advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that take care of more and more car functions these days. At the same time, they need drivers to pay even more...
12 Sep 2022, 11:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are vehicles that we would love to see in the market again. The 406 Coupe is a good example. Designed by Pininfarina, it had striking looks. Moving fast and being very aerodynamic were not praised because this beauty was supposed to move slow...
10 Sep 2022, 17:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Euro NCAP results for the Germany-made Tesla Model Y were seen as evidence that Dan O’Dowd and The Dawn Project were dead wrong about Full Self-Driving. After all, a car that scores 97% in Safety Assist systems (98%, according to the vide...
9 Sep 2022, 19:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / German’s equivalent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is known as KBA. The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Motor Transport Authority) started investigating Autopilot at the beginning of 2022 and found “abnormal...
9 Sep 2022, 17:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you are willing to buy a BYD in a country with left-hand traffic, there are good chances it will come from a new factory. Australia already buys these cars from China, but BYD wants a factory to concentrate its right-hand drive (RHD) cars. It wi...
9 Sep 2022, 13:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk is still trying to escape the contract he signed to buy Twitter. If he cannot avoid it, he may order Twitter to prevent people from tagging him about the issues they have with their Teslas. The latest episode came from The Colony, Texas, ...
9 Sep 2022, 10:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Oliver Zipse once said that BMW had “much more efficient ways to build a car body” than with mega castings. That was his way of saying Tesla’s recipe for new cars was not the best. On the other hand, the German company now seems t...
9 Sep 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / VinFast is moving fast to put its electric vehicles for sale in the U.S. In June, the Vietnamese company even said it was considering building an electric pickup truck for American customers, which makes a lot of sense. Pickup trucks are the most p...
8 Sep 2022, 22:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Bollinger was supposed to start selling the B1 electric SUV and the B2 electric pickup truck as its first products. In January, Bollinger announced these EVs would have to wait because commercial vehicles were more promising. Mullen changed all tha...
8 Sep 2022, 16:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In August 2021, we said that Rivian was looking for the perfect location for its European factory. The UK, Germany, and the Netherlands were allegedly negotiating with the American EV maker. A new deal may sort this out in an unexpected way: Rivian...
8 Sep 2022, 12:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric cars face more challenges in becoming mainstream than those with combustion engines. Although the supply chain crisis is something they share, EVs still need a charging infrastructure that works and to lower their battery packs’ pric...