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3 Jun 2022, 19:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ternary lithium cells are prone to thermal runaways. That’s why some companies such as ONE (Our Next Energy), BYD, and CATL are betting on LFP cells and why Toyota is going slow on electrification. The Japanese company prefers NiMH (nickel-me...
3 Jun 2022, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NamX presented the NamX HUV on May 13, and the vehicle called our attention a lot less than the hydrogen capsules the company said could power it. The idea was to sell these small tanks everywhere to help create the hydrogen demand that will justif...
3 Jun 2022, 12:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever a fantastic concept car makes it into production, we celebrate. It was the case with the Hyundai IONIQ 5, first seen as the 45 Concept. Buick said it would not make the Wildcat EV, which is a sin. At least Polestar will have a production v...
3 Jun 2022, 10:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the email messages from Elon Musk about remote work leaked, some analysts saw that as a veiled attempt to cut jobs at Tesla. Reuters discovered that this is not so veiled anymore: it read an email message from Musk in which he ordered Tesla to...
2 Jun 2022, 17:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla likes to say it is an energy company instead of an automaker. After all, it sells Powerwalls for houses and Powerpacks and Megapacks for energy companies or big businesses that cannot have power interruptions. If that is really the case, Toyo...
2 Jun 2022, 11:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In October 2021, Aptera produced the last of its Alpha prototypes, the Luna. It also clarified that it would make Beta units for multiple tests and eventually deliver the Gamma vehicles. These cars are pre-production vehicles, which should undergo ...
2 Jun 2022, 08:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD is a highly versatile company. It produces most of the components it needs for its EVs, including batteries and semiconductors. As such, the Chinese carmaker has to ensure access to raw materials. According to The Paper, it has done precisely t...
1 Jun 2022, 21:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid released a document in February 2021 called Lucid Investor Deck. In it, the company said it planned to present the Gravity SUV in 2023 and “future products” in 2025. Among these new vehicles are “planned sedans,” &ldqu...
1 Jun 2022, 18:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Lightyear One is a vehicle that deserved close attention in the last few months. The remarkable range of 710 kilometers with a 60-kWh battery pack was as incredible as its eye-watering price of €150,000 ($159,630 at the current exchange ra...
1 Jun 2022, 13:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Buick has revealed multiple things about its future. Apart from its first new badge in 30 years, it will also launch only electric vehicles starting with 2024. The first electric production vehicle will bear the Electra name, reviving one of the mo...
1 Jun 2022, 12:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The ET5 was NIO’s star at the Auto Shenzhen 2022 event. The Chinese carmaker gave some more details about it at the car show. For example, we did not have its pricing, but we discovered that NIO talked about it back in December 2021. It is a ...
31 May 2022, 19:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla keeps saying that its 4680 cells are a massive competitive advantage. Despite that, it recently asked Panasonic to start making them as soon as possible. The Japanese cell maker said that will not happen before 2023. It seemed that the only i...
31 May 2022, 13:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lordstown Motors had to make a deal with Foxconn to stay afloat. Canoo claims it can get money whenever it wants, as it desperately needs some. This is a pretty different environment from when any new car company would have had just to promise a ne...
30 May 2022, 22:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / DeLorean did not clarify only the name its first electric car will have. Calling it Alpha5 suggests that there are four previous Alpha vehicles. The company promised to unveil four concept cars before the beginning of July, and they would show its ...
30 May 2022, 12:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever I discuss electric cars with my fellow automotive writers, I see that not even one of them believes BEVs (battery electric vehicles) will solve all problems. Not as they currently are, at least. Some cannot let go of the idea of a combusti...
30 May 2022, 10:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems that EVolved was more of an idea than properly a new vehicle from DeLorean. The company just revealed that its next car would be called Alpha5, which explains the stylized V that it presents in so many of its design aspects (V is the Roman...
27 May 2022, 22:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk spends a lot of his time on Twitter. Only a bit of what he writes there matters, mostly when he talks about Tesla. Sadly, it does not mean that it makes sense or is true. When asked by an Indian follower if Tesla would have a factory in t...
27 May 2022, 18:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Fisker Ocean already has more than 45,000 reservations, and its production should officially start on November 17, 2022. However, the Fisker PEAR is now what is making us more curious. We assumed it would be a sedan because the company said it ...
27 May 2022, 15:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO said long ago that it intends to sell its vehicles abroad and the best example of that is its presence in Norway, soon to expand to Germany and other European countries. According to Yicai, the American market is also on the plans: NIO is hirin...
27 May 2022, 12:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been covering a wave of Tesla fires in May that still have no explanation. One of these episodes demonstrated that “the safest cars on Earth” actually have a big safety issue: their doors and hidden manual releases. Jamil Jutha ...