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3 Aug 2022, 23:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Not all European customers buying the Volkswagen Taigo may know that the crossover was developed in Brazil. There, it is called Nivus. Brazil may have another vehicle to export to Europe and other markets, only from a different brand: Fiat. The Ita...
3 Aug 2022, 22:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla lost its third lawsuit in Germany because of its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). A buyer took his case to the Darmstadt Regional Court on June 17, 2020. On February 21, 2022, the court ruled Tesla would have to buy back his car and...
3 Aug 2022, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / About a year ago, a BYD Han EV caught fire spontaneously two days after an independent crash test. At the time, BYD said the blaze was caused by a conductive coolant that should not be in the vehicle. It will be interesting to learn what was the re...
3 Aug 2022, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / CATL is the largest battery manufacturer in the world and a great producer of LFP cells. This is one of the reasons for it to want a factory in North America: apart from supplying these batteries to Tesla, Ford is also interested in this cheaper an...
2 Aug 2022, 23:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / General Motors continues to reveal the new-generation Chevrolet Montana little by little. By the end of June, it said the pickup truck would be the roomiest one in its unibody market segment. In the U.S., it would compete with the Ford Maverick and...
2 Aug 2022, 20:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Leonard Yankelovich went public about his new brand in April 2021. Apart from DARTZ, he was also in charge of FreZe, a company that would sell a rebadged Wuling Hongguang Mini EV in Europe for €9,999. Distribution was supposed to start in Augu...
2 Aug 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla caused a frenzy when it said it would develop a $25,000 car in China. Elon Musk announced on the Q4 2021 earnings call that the plans were postponed. Volkswagen kept its plans for an affordable EV costing €20,000 ($20,302 at the current ...
2 Aug 2022, 09:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BMW i4 and iX are the more recent pieces of evidence of what early adopters have to endure. For the privilege of being the first ones to drive a car, they are also the ones that face all problems a more mature manufacturing process should avoid...
1 Aug 2022, 20:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Trevor Milton was in charge of Nikola, we had the impression that it had a revolutionary battery technology and that it was similar to Tesla in the sense of doing everything on its own. That was not true: Nikola pretty much followed the same r...
1 Aug 2022, 12:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In March, Autocar reported that Audi was considering building a pickup truck. The information came from the automaker’s CEO, Markus Duesmann, at the Volkswagen Group’s annual earnings report. To be more specific, he said he could not pr...
31 Jul 2022, 19:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Theoretical discussions inspire people to divide into teams: those in favor and those against the main idea. It is not unusual to see the advocates from one side move to the other as soon as they see themselves in the discussed situation. I confess...
30 Jul 2022, 20:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear does not think it is enough to sell the first solar production car in the world, beating even Sono Motors in that mission. The bad news is that the Lightyear 0 is a pretty expensive car, which will give the Gerrman competitor the opportun...
30 Jul 2022, 15:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You do not have to be a genius to realize that you will lose money if you have to test something to make money. After all, it may not work as planned. This is pretty much what seems to be happening at Giga Grünheide, which Elon Musk classified...
30 Jul 2022, 00:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Toyota Camry has been the best-selling passenger car in the U.S. for 20 years in a row. Despite that, the RAV4 beats it as Toyota’s best-selling vehicle on American soil since 2017. That is something we can credit more to the preference f...
29 Jul 2022, 23:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Build Back Better Act is no more. It is still called H.R. 5376 on its Congress page, but senator Joe Manchin renamed it the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. That’s because it also aims to start paying the U.S.’s massive national deb...
28 Jul 2022, 09:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pointing out automakers' bad practices is fundamental to make them stop. When they get reversed, that is an even bigger win. This is what Jason Hughes managed to achieve when he shared one of his clients had lost 80 miles of range in his 2013 ...
28 Jul 2022, 00:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape may have suffered a blow recently after it lost its chief manufacturing officer, Celina Mikolajczak. In its Q2 2022 Shareholder Letter, the company did not even touch on the subject. Instead, it announced two significant achievements: ...
27 Jul 2022, 21:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Citroën 2CV was presented in 1948 as an affordable family car. Being cheap is the only thing that connects this veteran with the Ami, an electric “sans permis” that several journalists and car enthusiasts have praised. The desi...
27 Jul 2022, 17:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we wrote about Nimbus, it was to make sure it was still alive. We had not heard about the company for a long time, but it quickly got in touch to say the website would be updated in a few weeks and we would have some surprises. We had...
27 Jul 2022, 11:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we reported another fatal crash involving Tesla Autopilot on July 24, we called it: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTHSA) would probably want to have a closer look at the case. Reuters confirmed that the safety regulator a...