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7 Sep 2022, 17:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We can say Dan O’Dowd is a man with a purpose. First, he presented tests in which a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self-Driving (FSD) active hit a mannequin representing a child. After that, he mocked the EV maker’s “Cease and Desist&rdq...
7 Sep 2022, 14:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If legacy automakers are having a hard time with the supply chain crisis, you can imagine newcomers are in even deeper… problems. Rivian had some issues right at the beginning but seems to be doing better now. We cannot say the same about Lu...
7 Sep 2022, 10:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The best critics of anything are those with a deep knowledge of how the criticized things work. That made Jason Hughes a reputable source of information in the Tesla world. The owner of 057 Technology makes a living repairing these EVs. His latest ...
7 Sep 2022, 09:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota announced it would upgrade two of its engine plants in Japan to also manufacture batteries. The move was celebrated as a sign that Toyota is giving in to the EV shift, but these assessments fail to realize these factories will keep producing...
7 Sep 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo’s next big thing will be the Embla, the XC90 replacement. It will be produced at the Ridgeville plant in the U.S. alongside the Polestar 3. Theoretically, the Volvo Concept Recharge showed us what to expect, but recent patent images and...
6 Sep 2022, 08:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Automakers have the habit of presenting dark teasers whenever they have an important vehicle to introduce. Automotive writers frequently try to brighten these images in order to show more details of these future cars. Ferrari mocked that cycle by p...
5 Sep 2022, 20:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 13, VinFast disclosed that it would open more than 50 dealerships in Europe. It just failed to mention when that would happen. We just knew that 25 of these stores would be in Germany, 20 in France, and 5 in the Netherlands. After presentin...
5 Sep 2022, 08:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we checked, Tesla had received 1.5 million reservations for the Cybertruck. At $100 a pop, that has made the company earn $150 million without delivering a single vehicle since presenting the prototype on November 21, 2019. Sono Motor...
3 Sep 2022, 21:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In June 2017, my colleague Mircea Panait announced that Polestar would become a standalone brand. He also asked: “Is it me or the Polestar badge looks like two Citroën chevrons facing each other?” At least he and Stellantis did. Th...
3 Sep 2022, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / AXA Insurance felt the effects of the mess it caused when it staged a fire with a Tesla Model S. The company decided to publicly apologize for how it failed to inform the public about the stunt’s procedures. Curiously, its excuse maintains th...
2 Sep 2022, 11:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Yulon Motor is Taiwan’s largest car manufacturer. That is probably why Foxconn chose it as its leading automotive partner to develop the MIH Open platform. In October, Foxconn presented the Foxtron Model C, its first SUV based on the new arch...
2 Sep 2022, 05:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Before the international health crisis, Bollinger Motors wanted to sell an SUV and a pickup truck, both electric. The B1 and B2 would have liftgates that would allow them to carry long items of up to 19’4” (5.91 meters) in length. In Ja...
1 Sep 2022, 18:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ariel Motor has given the world some impressive combustion-engined vehicles. The first one was the Atom, followed by the Nomad, and eventually by the Ace motorcycle. We did not think we would see an electric vehicle from them so soon. Yet, the HIPE...
1 Sep 2022, 11:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BMW announced it started producing its own fuel cell system in Munich on August 31. The company still does not mention how many iX5 Hydrogen units these systems will help to power. However, it disclosed an interesting detail about its in-house prod...
31 Aug 2022, 20:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There is a long debate about whether electric vehicles are more prone to fires than combustion-engined cars. Statistics show that EVs burst into flames less often than those powered by engines. However, they are newer than ICE vehicles and also not...
31 Aug 2022, 17:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / August 31, 2022, is the last day of work for Herbert Diess at Volkswagen. The executive gave an example of resilience and professionalism after the German carmaker announced he would leave the company, and he remained there until the end of his ter...
31 Aug 2022, 15:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Renault announced in January 2021 that it had a plan to cease being a carmaker. Its goal was to become a technology company that also happens to manufacture and sell vehicles. Renault called this plan Renaulution. We only did not learn at the time ...
31 Aug 2022, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When April Gillmore bought her Tesla Model 3 Performance, the sound of metal scratching metal led her to discover the car was delivered without a brake pad. Her service request was necessary and urgent, but Tesla thinks it receives complaints for p...
31 Aug 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Bentley said that the Mulliner Batur is a special car not only because of its eyewatering price tag or limited production numbers. The British brand said the new coupe “will ultimately guide the design of Bentley’s future range of Batte...
30 Aug 2022, 22:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It’s been a while since Tesla’s “deliver now, fix later” policy has been exposed. When the company was developing the Model S, Elon Musk told his vice president for quality he would not have time to test the EV for just a fr...