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27 Jul 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rendering artists can see things everybody else misses. The best example of that is the IONIQ 6 Station Wagon (SW) that Theottle created. The video below reveals pretty soon which other vehicle he mixed with Hyundai’s electric sedan to create...
27 Jul 2022, 00:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Design concepts are usually boring to write about because all the brands want to disclose about them is the styling, proportions, and so forth. We are left with no idea of how big the vehicles are, what powers them, and if they have any chance to r...
26 Jul 2022, 23:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk is famous for trying to make things differently, as he did with SpaceX’s reusable rockets. Regarding Tesla, automotive executives often refer to the EV maker’s strategies as cutting corners. Philippe Chain said that, when he w...
26 Jul 2022, 14:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen manufactured the first units of the ID.4 in August 2021. It seemed that the company would have locally-made EVs to deliver in a few months from that point. Curiously, the German carmaker took almost one year to announce the ID.4 mass pro...
26 Jul 2022, 11:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jason Hughes is a fair source of Tesla stuff not only because of his technical knowledge. The “Tesla Hacker” also reports things as they are, bad or good. And the latest story he has to share about the EV maker is an example of how to r...
26 Jul 2022, 01:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sono Motors must have been one of the first companies to promise to sell a solar car. It was founded in 2016 and presented its idea in the same year in an Indiegogo campaign. The car would cost €12,000 ($12,262 at the current exchange rate) or...
25 Jul 2022, 22:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jennifer Homendy said in September 2021 that Tesla “has clearly misled numerous people to misuse and abuse technology.” The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair was referring to how the EV maker deals with its advanced driv...
25 Jul 2022, 17:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / DeLorean presented the Alpha5 on May 30. Being the fifth Alpha was not a surprise: the company said designers had conceived other vehicles that never got to the production lines for obvious reasons. It even announced it would present them in 90 day...
25 Jul 2022, 14:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our readers are already aware of lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cells. On July 13, we told them that CATL announced it had developed them and was ready to manufacture these new cells by the end of the year. At the 2022 World EV & ES Ba...
24 Jul 2022, 18:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been warning how tired Hansjörg Eberhard von Gemmingen is about the defects in his Model S P85+. Despite having three different battery packs and at least eight drive units (DU), he drove his Tesla for more than one million miles (1,60...
23 Jul 2022, 17:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Tavares already said that electric cars will kill affordable vehicles. It is not difficult to understand why: there are not enough batteries to make small EVs and still sell them at low prices. Volkswagen said its small electric cars would c...
22 Jul 2022, 15:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 8, we wrote about a Tesla Model 3 in Germany with three of its four jacking points cracked. The owner discovered the problem when he was putting winter tires in his EV. Tesla proposed fixing it just by painting the fractured jacking points,...
21 Jul 2022, 15:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The ID. Buzz is not the Volkswagen Bus, but it pays the pioneer a fitting tribute. What most people do not know is that the T1.5 Bus almost made it until the present day. It only failed to do so because Volkswagen could not make it comply with Braz...
19 Jul 2022, 14:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I last wrote about the car I would buy if I could, I said it would be a plug-in hybrid with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack for two main reasons. The first is that LFP cells are not prone to thermal runaways and last for a long tim...
16 Jul 2022, 20:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has managed to keep many customers silent about defects in its cars and workers quiet about the company with non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Usually, the only party that benefitted from them was the automaker. GM is using the same instrumen...
16 Jul 2022, 13:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You know Christoph Lindner from other stories we have published about Tesla defects. He is the attorney that got Tesla to buy back a Model 3 in March because of the Full Self-Driving (FSD) equivalent it sells in Germany. That was in March. In June,...
15 Jul 2022, 18:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our Next Energy (ONE) already said that it does not believe nickel and cobalt should go together. Although it was the only option at the earliest stage of lithium-ion cells, ONE's argument is that it offers a high risk of thermal runaways. Two...
14 Jul 2022, 20:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BYD Seal is the company’s first cell-to-body (CTB) technology vehicle. Instead of putting the batteries in modules or directly in the battery pack – a strategy called cell-to-pack (CTP), they are part of the vehicle’s structur...
14 Jul 2022, 16:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Bloomberg anticipated that Rivian was studying to cut about 5% of its staff. A few days later, RJ Scaringe wrote a memo to the company’s employees to confirm that the company was evaluating a layoff, even if in an apologetic fashion. Accor...
13 Jul 2022, 06:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Being anticipated by a striking concept car can be a blessing or a curse. The blessing comes when the production car respects what the concept presented or even perfects it. That was the case with the Hyundai 45 Concept and the IONIQ 5. Curiously, ...