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18 May 2022, 18:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid managed to get where it is thanks to the investments of Saudi Arabia’s PIF (Public Investment Fund). This former Tesla investor made a deal with Lucid in 2018 to invest in the company in exchange for a factory in the country. In Februar...
18 May 2022, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen has finally disclosed the official prices for the ID. BUZZ. The website configurator will go online on May 20 to allow customers to order the electric MPV in any Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles dealership in Germany. The lowest price is f...
18 May 2022, 09:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we first wrote about Nimbus and its electric trikes – the Halo and the X – the international health crisis had already killed millions of people and businesses. The semiconductor crisis was rearing its ugly head, and it also affect...
17 May 2022, 18:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 8, 2021, Sila Nanotechnologies announced it had developed a silicon anode that would immediately increase energy density by 20% in current lithium-ion cells. At the beginning of May, the company changed the story a bit: it created a hi...
17 May 2022, 14:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 12, NIO opened its first service center in Norway. The new shop is at Ensjøveien 17, Oslo, which is only about 5 kilometers away from the NIO House in the Norwegian capital. Apart from fixing the EVs from the Chinese automaker, the NI...
17 May 2022, 10:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NCC Group is a cybersecurity company specialized in showing vulnerabilities before bad guys can take advantage of them. It tried to show Tesla that thieves can not only open a Tesla Model S or Model Y in seconds: they can also start the vehicle and...
17 May 2022, 08:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Automotive companies very rarely have only one supplier for critical components. Tesla makes its own seats. You may be asking how these two things relate to each other, but it is quite simple: Rivian seems to have only one supplier for its Amazon d...
16 May 2022, 19:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla only sells electric cars, and it is the leader in many markets in the world, including in the U.S. The second place in that country currently belongs to the Hyundai Group, thanks to its two brands, Hyundai and Kia. According to Automotive New...
16 May 2022, 14:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have been following the comeback of DeLorean with us, you must have seen that the teasers released so far seem to relate to different cars. The first one presented a sports car that could be compared to the Lotus Evora if it was not for the ...
16 May 2022, 10:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla’s faith in OTA (over-the-air) updates is a remarkable thing. The company thought they could fix heat pumps and these components keep failing due to a design flaw. Now, the EV maker said it would repair a display malfunction caused by an...
14 May 2022, 20:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever an electric car catches fire, EV advocates rush to mention that they are much safer than ICE vehicles. Mujeeb Ijaz may agree with that, but he’s still not at ease with nickel and cobalt in EV batteries. In an interview with Automotiv...
14 May 2022, 14:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On March 10, Steve Wosniak announced he had bought a Lucid Air. Coincidence or not, Apple’s co-founder had just spoken to Steve-O about his Tesla for an episode of the YouTube show Wild Ride! What Wosniak said there is no surprise for those w...
14 May 2022, 12:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If Aptera wants to start delivering its vehicles by the end of this year, it has to get all components ready as soon as possible. The latest update from the company relates to the battery pack. Aptera finalized its production-intent battery pack an...
13 May 2022, 22:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Watching new carmakers establish themselves as viable companies started with Tesla in more recent times. Despite that, Lucid and Rivian are the ones showing what it takes to get there without the ever-present bankruptcy risk: deep pockets. Lucid ha...
13 May 2022, 19:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As we warned our reader on May 10, the first Lucid Studio opened its doors on May 13. To be more precise, on a Friday, the 13th, which shows that Peter Rawlinson is not a superstitious man. He was there in Munich – more precisely at Odeonplat...
13 May 2022, 17:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NamX – you should read “Nameex” – did not present a vehicle that is much different than other electric SUVs. The elegant design that Pininfarina and Thomas de Lussac gave it is just a beautiful frame for what should really m...
13 May 2022, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Indian government told Tesla a while ago that it would not accept EVs imported from China. It also said that it would not offer the company tax incentives, something that Elon Musk said a while ago that he was totally against. The end of that s...
13 May 2022, 06:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker showed great timing in presenting the newest teaser of the PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution). Lordstown Motors disclosed today that it sold its factory to Foxconn, and Fisker immediately reinforced it wants to produce 250,000 un...
12 May 2022, 16:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone who followed all the steps Microlino has taken to arrive at this point knows it was a bumpy road. Although the bubble car was not conceived for off-road trails, it made it, and this is what the company wanted to celebrate with its Pioneer Se...
12 May 2022, 14:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Subaru’s first electric vehicle is actually Toyota’s second EV (remember the RAV4 EV?) with some tweaks. It is even produced by Toyota, something that Subaru wants to change by the middle of the decade. That’s when Subaru is plann...