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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...
30 Aug 2022, 19:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some concept cars bring more than the promise of a new vehicle. They have the task of announcing bigger plans: a new logo, a design shift… The new Skoda 7S came with all those goals. Apart from being an electric seven-seater SUV, it presents...
30 Aug 2022, 15:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla must have seen that coming. A customer in California is suing the company for phantom braking episodes. In his lawsuit against Tesla, Jose Alvarez Toledo said the EV maker fraudulently hid safety risks Autopilot poses to its clients. Toledo i...
30 Aug 2022, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have many examples that Mother Nature will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, regardless of how cruel that might seem. Take a hailstorm as an example: it will damage anything on its way. Russ Osborne filmed how one of these events simply d...
29 Aug 2022, 22:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk is in Norway for the Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) 2022 energy conference. The Tesla CEO is often accused of tweeting random stuff to influence what search engines will find when his name and something he does not want people to talk about...
29 Aug 2022, 17:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we hear about the butterfly effect, we may get the impression that unconnected things can have implications for each other. The truth is that this chaos theory phenomenon actually shows how we often miss how connected everything is. A good exa...
29 Aug 2022, 12:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Harley-Davidson motorcycles are famous for leaking oil and overheating. This is one benefit the LiveWire and future electric options may represent to the brand: they will certainly be more reliable than current models with a V2 engine. The issue is...
29 Aug 2022, 08:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 27, Twitter user Houndstooth_Belle said her grandfather’s Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire. The vehicle’s computer informed him that the left rear motor malfunctioned and that he should not exceed 65 mph (105 kph) with it. Afte...
27 Aug 2022, 17:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / August 27 was the day CATL chose to reveal which would be the first vehicle to receive its Qilin battery pack. If you do not remember what this is, this third-generation cell-to-pack (CTP) system is one of the main bets of the biggest cell manufact...
26 Aug 2022, 18:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD seems to be pretty proud of its Xiaoyun engine. It was, until very recently, the most thermal efficient mill in mass production. According to BYD, it manages to convert 43% of the chemical energy contained in gasoline into movement. Before that...
26 Aug 2022, 12:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In June, the first patent images of the electric Toyota Corolla emerged. There were no alarms and no surprises: it was the production version of the bZ SDN (sedan) concept Toyota presented in December 2021. The Chinese media said it would be called...
26 Aug 2022, 09:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla investors and fans will tell you that verticalization is one of Tesla’s main competitive advantages. By developing its own components, it can improve them at will. By selling its EVs directly to customers, Tesla cuts the middlemen. By h...
25 Aug 2022, 22:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / California is the most important car market in the U.S. It is also one of the most affected ones by pollution: its smog problem earned the state the right to impose its own emission rules with California Air Resources Board (CARB). Governor Gavin N...
25 Aug 2022, 17:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has apparently reached its limit with The Dawn Project’s campaign against Full Self-Driving Beta. The company sent Dan O’Dowd, the founder of The Dawn Project, a “Cease and Desist” letter requiring him to stop “t...
25 Aug 2022, 13:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Green NCAP released a new batch of evaluations. This time, it put the Toyota Aygo X and the Dacia Spring to the test. Predictably, the tiny EV from the Romanian brand did much better than the Japanese vehicle with a combustion engine. However, the ...
24 Aug 2022, 17:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although vehicles powered by batteries have amazing energy efficiency, they are no match for those that run on hydrogen when it comes to carrying heavy loads or passengers. The latest example of that is the Coradia iLint train. Built by Alstom, it ...
24 Aug 2022, 14:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Deliver now, fix later. Tesla’s motto for vehicle production is known since Elon Musk refused to give the Model S more tests before it was handed to its first customers. Sadly, it seems the company is far from giving up on this strategy. Mode...
23 Aug 2022, 21:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In February, Tesla tried to anticipate the bad publicity a new racism lawsuit would generate. The EV maker attacked the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s (DFEH) decision to sue it as a “misguided” action, indi...
23 Aug 2022, 17:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A recent EV collision in China brought back an old discussion about electric cars: how truly viable are they when their battery packs cost so much? Any damage to this component basically turns the entire vehicle into trash. That’s what happen...
23 Aug 2022, 13:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automotive world is pretty curious to see if Apple will ever sell an electric car. Talented people have been hired to take care of the project, but the EV seems to be always waiting for something to reach production lines. It even has a trade s...