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13 Aug 2022, 19:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we wrote about the Inflation Reduction Act, we mentioned that restricting the benefits to a few countries or North America would probably trigger a response from the World Trade Organization (WTO). The European Union (EU) confirmed that impres...
13 Aug 2022, 16:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 2018, Karl Hansen made the headlines after filing a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Tesla. The former internal investigator said that Tesla was hiding around $37 million in losses due to raw...
13 Aug 2022, 14:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 29, we told our readers that Steven Cliff had promised to understand and rule autonomous vehicle technology. The recently confirmed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) administrator seemed really motivated to solve this a...
11 Aug 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The first famous nameplate to survive by becoming a crossover was the Mitsubishi Eclipse, which is now known as Eclipse Cross. To be fair, it is an SUV, something we cannot say about the Peugeot 408. The former sedan is now a crossover, just like t...
10 Aug 2022, 20:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the first rumors about BYD supplying batteries for Tesla emerged, we were almost sure these LFP cells would end up in Chinese vehicles. Sina Tech corrected that by stating that the actual destination was not China but Germany. According to the...
10 Aug 2022, 18:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ralph Nader built a name for himself in defense of American consumers. His book “Unsafe at Any Speed” is famous for having killed the Chevrolet Corvair. However, it goes way beyond that: it discusses the resistance of American automaker...
10 Aug 2022, 12:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Before we knew that FreZe and Nikrob had parted ways, FreZe revealed some images of its first product, the Froggy EV Beachstar. It was beside other vehicles and not in the most revealing angles, so the first official images of the electric roadster...
9 Aug 2022, 23:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must have already seen some bumper stickers that read “I brake for animals,” “I brake for pedestrians,” or “I brake for bikes.” There are plenty of them in the wild. A recent test paid by The Dawn Project sug...
9 Aug 2022, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In March, we told you that Meyers Manx was planning to make an electric Dune Buggy. It took a while for the company to reveal it, but a Malibu event did the trick. To be honest, the official introduction will only happen on August 19 at The Quail M...
9 Aug 2022, 09:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must have heard about Musk’s challenges this past weekend, but probably not about the ones that matter. The notorious one was when he dared Parag Agrawal to prove Twitter has less than 5% of fake or spam daily users. That is the excuse he...
8 Aug 2022, 15:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera promised to reveal its first Gamma prototype by mid-July. Considering how much time other EV makers take to meet their goals – months or years, if ever – missing the presentation date by almost a month may not be that much. But i...
8 Aug 2022, 11:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At Rivian’s Q1 2022 earnings call, RJ Scaringe talked about the company’s new drive unit. Called Enduro, it would make its premiere with the EDV program and be adopted later on R1 and R2 products. The Rivian CEO shared on Twitter that t...
8 Aug 2022, 07:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A few days ago, we showed you what a Honda Civic Type R Sedan would look like, thanks to the work of the rendering artist Theottle. That opened a debate about why family guys and girls can’t have performance goods if they also have to carry a...
6 Aug 2022, 23:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Journalists and experts have been asking the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for years about Tesla’s practices regarding Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD). Some months after the company moved its headquarters to Texas, the C...
5 Aug 2022, 20:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sometimes, writing an article consists of sharing something you would like other people to see. Some stuff is just so cool it would be a sin to keep them to yourself. This is pretty much the case with Blower Head and his amazing vehicle, the Yutani...
5 Aug 2022, 17:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Senator Joe Manchin announced a deal with the Republican majority to approve the Inflation Reduction Act, several automakers decided to complain. Most of them still benefit from the current federal tax credit, which is something you should no...
5 Aug 2022, 09:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Automakers only present any new model these days after exhaustively making sure that people will want to buy them. In other words, they try to make sure they will make money makings these cars, as Alfred P. Sloan once said they should. This is prob...
4 Aug 2022, 18:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla investors and fans usually think that the company is unbeatable when it comes to electric vehicles. Little did they know that Stellantis sold more EVs in Europe in the first half of the year than the American EV maker did. Neither managed to ...
4 Aug 2022, 13:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric bubble cars were just a charming promise until August 4, 2022. This was the day when Microlino delivered the first unit of its vehicle to customers. They are Michel Péclard and Godil Abdul Qadir, who work together in the restaurant ...
4 Aug 2022, 12:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sakuú seems to be pretty confident in the two products it wants to sell: a pouch cell with a lithium metal anode and a 300 Wh/kg energy density called Sakuú-LM and its 3D printed solid-state cell. The company opened an engineering hub...