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28 Jun 2022, 20:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Cadillac Lyriq finally hit the road with automotive journalists, and its reviews are very, very positive. Perhaps the best example comes from Tom Voelk, who owns a Cadillac ELR and was quite disappointed with how GM was treating the brand until...
28 Jun 2022, 18:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Dieselgate and similar scandals seem long gone, the past repeats itself with some new characters. This time, it is the German government that is raiding Hyundai and Kia offices after evidence of devices that cheat diesel emissions. At least on...
28 Jun 2022, 16:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / MG does not want to start a fire with Disney by naming its electric hatchback the Mulan. The brand just disclosed it will call it the MG4 Electric in Europe. With most of the technical specifications we were missing in hand, MG also reinforced this...
28 Jun 2022, 12:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People love round numbers because they are easier to remember. NIO almost got them to celebrate the four years of its battery-swapping service. On June 28, 2018, the Chinese carmaker opened its first Power Swap station in Shenzhen, the same day it ...
28 Jun 2022, 10:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Owen Diaz rejected the damages he would receive after winning his lawsuit against Tesla for racism, a new trial was certain. This is why the latest decision from federal judge William Orrick is no surprise. On July 12, he determined that the ...
27 Jun 2022, 20:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Honda Accord only got to be the best-selling passenger vehicle in the U.S. in 2001. Despite that, it is consistently among the best sellers on the American market, which makes each and every new generation something of crucial importance to the...
27 Jun 2022, 20:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Making EVs is far from being as straightforward as combustion-engined cars. In fact, even traditional vehicles are showing that any lack of components can harm production. When it comes to electric cars, they need new batteries, and they are not as...
27 Jun 2022, 13:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Volkswagen presented the ID.Vizzion, in 2018, rumor had it that the production version would be called Aero B. The new ID. Aero concept shows that the idea may have changed a little bit, even if the new EV still shows how crucial aerodynamics...
27 Jun 2022, 12:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hansjörg Eberhard von Gemmingen became famous for driving his Model S P85+ for more than one million miles and replacing many components along the way. After we wrote that the Model Y Performance is having issues at Giga Grünheide with th...
27 Jun 2022, 10:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the developer Michal Gapinski announced he was working on the Tesla Android Project in January, it looked promising for Tesla owners willing to get Android Auto or Apple Carplay. In May, we updated our report and told our readers they would be...
26 Jun 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla was supposed to attain a few firsts with Giga Grünheide in Germany. It would have been the first factory to make a vehicle with massive casting parts in its structure, the first to use 4680 cells… There are a few firsts indeed, bu...
25 Jun 2022, 20:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk recently laughed when he said that Tesla’s two new factories are money furnaces, burning billions of dollars. He also stated that he is concerned about how to keep Tesla working so that the company “can pay people and not go b...
24 Jun 2022, 14:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 31, I wrote how EV startups were running out of money in their attempts to go public. That was a strong sign that legacy automakers were catching up and offering everything these new companies were trying to anticipate. On June 24, Polestar ...
23 Jun 2022, 22:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian has good and bad things to talk about. It came up with an electric pickup truck that deserved terrific reviews, and it will build a factory for more affordable cars and has plenty of money in the bank to support all that. At the same time, i...
23 Jun 2022, 18:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Cell-to-pack (CTP) is a way to put cells together and use all the space available to pack as much energy as possible. CATL was one of the first companies to propose this assembly method. On March 28, we wrote that the Chinese battery maker had just...
23 Jun 2022, 16:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota is making a worldwide recall involving approximately 2,700 units of its first mass-produced electric vehicle, the bZ4X. Predictably, it also affects the Subaru Solterra, bZ4X’s twin brother from another mother, with around 2,600 EVs. T...
23 Jun 2022, 13:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / EV advocates often hate fuel cells and hydrogen because they would not make sense regarding energy efficiency. However, there is no battery available today that offers the conveniences of fuel cells: fast refueling and low mass. Viritech created th...
23 Jun 2022, 10:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO will have a lot of work to explain what happened on June 22 in its Shanghai headquarters. An electric sedan fell off from what people first claimed to be the fifth floor and apparently landed on its roof at around 5:20 PM on that day. There is ...
22 Jun 2022, 23:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / First, Tesla stopped using radar in its vehicles. Then it raised prices for FSD, for its cars, cut mobile connectors from new vehicles, and decided to promote massive layoffs. For the world’s most valuable car company and one that celebrates ...
22 Jun 2022, 22:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Taylor Ogan is the CEO of Snow Bull Capital, a hedge fund that bets on green technology. He is also a Tesla shares owner and investor. None of that prevents him from being a vocal critic of Full Self-Driving (FSD) or some of Tesla’s policies....