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15 Jun 2022, 11:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera held a webinar on June 14 that was packed with good news. The first is that it already has 25,000 orders for its solar trike. According to the company’s executives, this is what forced them to find a bigger manufacturing space. The sec...
15 Jun 2022, 09:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Our Next Energy (ONE) said it would develop a battery pack called Gemini, the idea left us curious. It would allow long ranges with cells that did not use cobalt or nickel. The obvious option was lithium iron phosphate (LFP). However, it will ...
14 Jun 2022, 18:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If the early bird catches the worm, it also suffers from the defects. We’re talking about early adopters, those who rush to have something, anything, before anyone else. They are the ones that may have experienced a defect on the Ford Mustang...
14 Jun 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla did not become a $1 trillion carmaker – and lost that title – progressively. Until 2019, it had been a $50 billion company for some years already, more precisely since the Model 3 presentation. What changed from that point on was ...
13 Jun 2022, 09:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Henrik Fisker has been talking about the trunk system in the Personal Electric Automotive Revolution (PEAR) project for a long time. That even led us to think it would be a sedan, but no: it is a crossover or an SUV. In its latest tweet about the c...
12 Jun 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla became a $1 trillion company based on promises. Its revolutionary battery – the 4680 – will give it an edge over its competitors. It said it will have 1 million robotaxis on the road in 2020. Its cars will be the safest ones ever ...
10 Jun 2022, 14:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the corporate world, companies only publicly talk about their suppliers or clients if both parties agree it is ok. It seems AMD forgot that basic principle and decided to say that NIO vehicles use its chips. NIO didn’t like it and denied t...
8 Jun 2022, 17:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Europe is very fond of its hatchbacks, a body style that is popular in developing countries mostly among people with tight budgets (the largest share of their populations). This is what makes the new electric MG something tailor-made for the Old Co...
8 Jun 2022, 11:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are multiple cases in which carmakers punish customers by not admitting defects instead of preventing or fixing them in a timely manner – even if that eventually happens. Lately, Tesla has been doing this more often than the rest of the...
8 Jun 2022, 09:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In August 2021, we told our readers that Tesla was allegedly buying Blade Batteries from BYD. CLS later wrote in October that Tesla had purchased 10 GWh in these LFP cells for future vehicles in China. It took quite a while for an official confirma...
7 Jun 2022, 20:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Cupra and Volkswagen presented the UrbanRebel and ID. LIFE concepts, respectively, I thought the UrbanRebel would be a larger car than the ID. LIFE. That was a mistake: the UrbanRebel will be the equivalent to the ID.1, as Cupra indirectly an...
7 Jun 2022, 18:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Can you imagine a world in which you can take a loan to buy Air? Or lease Gravity? That world already exists, and it was created with the help of the Bank of America to allow customers in love with Lucid products to pay for them in an easier way. R...
7 Jun 2022, 12:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Back in March, we told our readers that Sakuú was developing a printed solid-state battery and also standard lithium-ion pouch cells with lithium metal as the anode. That was only possible because of some breakthroughs, such as a non-flammab...
7 Jun 2022, 09:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Badge engineering is an old-time practice in the automotive industry that got reinforced by the idea of “synergies.” In other words, of making the most of components, engines, and even entire models, as is the case with putting another ...
6 Jun 2022, 22:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our readers already know Milo Avidane’s story with his 2022 Lexus RX450h. On June 2, the vehicle caught fire, which led its owner to share a video on Twitter and ask Lexus for any sort of assistance. We were still missing some important detai...
6 Jun 2022, 17:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from Volvo and Polestar, Geely also owns Lynk & Co. Its vehicles are based on the same platforms used by the Swedish brands, and the latest concept from Lynk & Co is no exception. Although the company states it indicates a design shif...
6 Jun 2022, 14:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) has a mission of being a very exclusive brand: only 100 units of each of its projects will ever be made. The T.50 and the T.33 will follow that principle, and all new vehicles from the company should do that too. Auto...
6 Jun 2022, 11:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit built a YouTube channel on recovering dead Teslas. The first one was a 2012 Tesla Model S that he named Delores. After Tesla cut the Supercharging for life that this car had with the excuse that it was totaled, Benoit gave it to his dau...
4 Jun 2022, 20:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fiat used to have a motto for its cars: only 20% of space available in a vehicle should be dedicated to the mechanical bits. The other 80% were for passengers and luggage. Lucid does not seem to have a similar philosophy. Despite that, Peter Rawlin...
4 Jun 2022, 10:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a preliminary evaluation (PE) about something so familiar in Tesla vehicles that its customers even gave it a name: phantom braking. At the time, the agency said it had ...