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22 Jun 2022, 15:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 6, Lynk & Co decided to share images of its version of the Polestar 5. The concept known as “The Next Day” was a hybrid with a system called E-Motive. That was all the Geely brand was willing to share at the time. Now, it st...
22 Jun 2022, 11:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The U.S. government wanted to offer a $4,500 incentive for electric cars made by unionized workers as part of the Build Back Better Act. As we mentioned in December 2021, it would not be something easy to approve when Joe Biden faced opposition fro...
22 Jun 2022, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera already has 25,000 reservations for its solar trike, which keeps growing. This is what made us believe that Elaphe would make its in-wheel motors in the U.S. right from the production start. Both companies have now confirmed that it will not...
22 Jun 2022, 08:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you do not remember who Owen Diaz is, we’ll refresh your memory. He is a former contract worker who sued Tesla for having to hear racist slurs while working in Fremont. Diaz won one of the most considerable amounts in punitive damages for ...
21 Jun 2022, 20:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Battista Pinin Farina once said that the wind was a fantastic sculptor and that he wanted to copy its designs. That undoubtedly influenced the elegant designs this master created starting in 1930, when he founded his studio. In 1972, his son Sergio...
21 Jun 2022, 18:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 2020, Germany did not generate 6.2 TWh of green power for a simple reason: there was no demand for this energy when it was generated, and the country did not have any way to store it. Integrating electric cars into smart grids could provide the ...
21 Jun 2022, 14:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / JB Straubel is more known as the engineer Elon Musk included in the deal that turned them into Tesla founders even if they joined the company after it was already running. That did not keep Straubel at Tesla. On the contrary: he saw an opportunity ...
21 Jun 2022, 10:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If Tesla was not having enough trouble with its products already, it is also giving its employees worldwide a hard time. Predictably, they are fighting back and making it clear that they will not take that peacefully from Tesla. Tesla is indeed ...
20 Jun 2022, 17:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid has been promising to introduce the Air Grand Touring Performance on one of the most famous spots for those who love cars: the Hillclimb track used by the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Starting on June 23, we already know who will be at the ste...
20 Jun 2022, 12:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a history of delivering some vehicles without brake pads and with several other quality and safety issues, but we never thought it would let a customer have a car without proper welding. Sadly, that’s precisely what happened with &A...
18 Jun 2022, 14:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO already sells its vehicles in Norway, and it will soon do the same in Germany. The main difference is that the Chinese carmaker will be faced with a lawsuit on the German market. According to the Handelsblatt newspaper, Audi told a Munich court...
18 Jun 2022, 10:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian says it is a company focused on outdoor adventures. As clever as that sounds in a market that only buys SUVs, pickup trucks, and crossovers, that is also a limitation if you want to sell more conventional vehicles. For Geely, that is not a p...
17 Jun 2022, 18:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In December 2021, we told our readers that the electric sedan Toyota said it would build with BYD was probably the bZ SDN concept it presented on December 14. That suspicion was confirmed by multiple spy shots that emerged ever since. Now, patent i...
17 Jun 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) announced the production start for the ID. Buzz in Hanover, some people may have asked how many units the company would be able to deliver per year. In 2022, that number will be only 15,000. From 2023 on,...
17 Jun 2022, 09:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On March 28, we told you how Hansjörg Eberhard von Gemmingen is an electric mobility hero. The man had driven his Model S P85+ for more than 1.5 million kilometers (621,371 miles) until January 2022. On March 25, he had to replace the drive un...
16 Jun 2022, 19:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In March, Sony finally stopped with that silly talk that it was not planning to sell a car it spent time and millions developing. While it seemed it would build it with Magna, Sony chose a Japanese company to help it make it: Honda. Now we know wha...
16 Jun 2022, 15:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk only speaks to people that will not ask him hard questions. This is why he has dismissed Tesla’s press department, which is more damaging to the company than he can figure out. A recent example emerged when he said that “solvi...
16 Jun 2022, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The raw numbers revealed on June 15 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that most Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) crashes happened with Tesla vehicles: around 70%. At the same time, it is not possibl...
15 Jun 2022, 22:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Polestar is probably the last EV maker to go public through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). In other words, it will merge with Gores Guggenheim, Inc., which is already negotiated at Nasdaq, change the ticker, and start selling its sha...
15 Jun 2022, 16:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While American customers may not be paying attention to NIO or its newest products, they should. The ES7 was presented this June 15 with “U.S.” written all over it. It is NIO’s first EV officially certified to tow a trailer or a c...