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13 Jul 2022, 00:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In September 2021, Ford announced it would invest $50 million in Redwood Materials and ask the company to recycle the battery packs from its electric cars. In June, Toyota said the same for the battery packs in its hybrid vehicles (made of nickel-m...
12 Jul 2022, 15:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the first images of Geely’s electric pickup truck emerged, we said it had Rivian in mind. The Chinese titan confirmed that with the official premiere of the vehicle, called Radar RD6. Based on the Sustainable Experience Architecture (SE...
12 Jul 2022, 13:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / First, it was called the Microlino. Then, Artega bought the Italian manufacturing partner of Micro-Mobility and turned it into the Karolino. With the legal dispute that ensued, the bubble car was named Karo. After a deal, Micro-Mobility created the...
11 Jul 2022, 23:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although blue-collar workers are the ones that get an industry going, white-collar folks are the ones that organize the business. That did not help them avoid being the targets of massive layoffs in the automotive industry. After Tesla said it woul...
11 Jul 2022, 22:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The FreZe Nikrob history was as controversial as it was short. Leonard Yankelovich, the founder of DARTZ, established the company to sell a rebadged version of the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV in Europe. It was supposed to go on sale in August 2021, bu...
11 Jul 2022, 15:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People are still fighting about who is the largest EV seller in the world: BYD or Tesla. For the ones that consider plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) can be included, BYD is the winner. The more selective ones who claim only battery electric vehicles (BEVs) ...
11 Jul 2022, 10:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone who read my editorial about the GMC Hummer EV knows I am not personally a fan of this electric pickup truck. Despite that, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) published an article about the Hummer EV that I feel obli...
8 Jul 2022, 22:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The European Parliament recently approved banning the sales of cars with combustion engines by 2035. Five years before that (in 2030), Volvo wants to be selling only electric vehicles. That is not the same objective as its peers at the Association ...
8 Jul 2022, 17:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been investigating Tesla for a long time. It did not help that the company’s vehicles had three fatal crashes, with four dead, in just two days. The case is that the safety regula...
8 Jul 2022, 10:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 6, a 2015 Tesla Model S crashed against the back of a tractor-trailer in Gainsville, and two people died. When we reported it, we were not sure who was investigating the incident. Still, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (N...
7 Jul 2022, 22:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Oil companies have changed how they present themselves. Instead of proudly saying they sell gasoline, diesel, and other petroleum products, they now say they sell energy. Shell is a good example of that movement, and it wants to show this is not ju...
7 Jul 2022, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen has been talking for quite a while about how vital the unified cell will be for its plans. On June 7, it disclosed not only prototypes of its prismatic platform for batteries but also that it will have a new company to take care of cell ...
7 Jul 2022, 13:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Having a large number of patents on a given technology does not mean you have a competitive edge on it. It may just mean you are putting a lot of effort into dominating it. This is probably how we should see the fact that Toyota is the world leader...
7 Jul 2022, 11:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is still investigating Tesla crashes against emergency vehicles on Autopilot. More than the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), the question is why automatic emergency braking (AEB) d...
7 Jul 2022, 09:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Law of Supply and Demand works on the premise that all commodities and goods have a limited supply. The higher the demand, the higher the price. That is happening with semiconductors, fuel, and multiple other elements connected with the automot...
6 Jul 2022, 18:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO reached 10 million battery swaps before it could get to 1,000 Power Swap stations, but it took the Chinese EV maker only one day to celebrate that milestone. On NIO Power Day 2022, held on June 6, NIO opened 12 new stations at once. In other wo...
6 Jul 2022, 15:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While BYD and Tesla discuss which of them is the world’s largest EV seller, Wuling could not care less. The Chinese company has one of the world’s best-selling electric cars, the Hongguang Mini EV, which sold 395,451 units in 2021. The ...
6 Jul 2022, 12:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has faced several reports of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) episodes. After Jason Hughes – the Tesla Hacker – swore that they are not possible in the company’s EVs, another explanation for that emerged: it would be cau...
5 Jul 2022, 22:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Renault 5 makes 50 years in 2022. The French carmaker decided to celebrate it in a remarkably unusual fashion by asking the designer Pierre Gonalons to turn the classic car into a jewel. Gonalons then developed the Renault 5 Diamant (Diamond, i...
5 Jul 2022, 15:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD celebrated selling 134,036 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in June. For the Financial Times and Nikkei Asia, that has settled the controversy around who is the world’s largest EV seller: they have written that the Chinese titan has beaten Tesl...