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12 May 2022, 10:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Lordstown Motors Corporation (LMC) announced it would probably go bankrupt if its deal to sell its factory to Foxconn did not proceed, we got a happy ending. On May 11, the EV startup announced that the plant now belongs to the Taiwanese comp...
11 May 2022, 20:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If Tesla had delivered all the promises it made on Battery Day, it would have started making revolutionary 4680 cells by September 2021 – 12 months after the event. In May 2022, we’re yet to confirm these cells are in any production veh...
11 May 2022, 17:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / StoreDot has made plenty of headlines lately about investments from Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Ola Electric. However, it still owed the public more information about its cells and the companies that believe in them. The Israeli startup finally addres...
11 May 2022, 10:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January, we wrote that Canoo could commit the same mistakes that killed the first iteration of Aptera and which are now troubling Tesla. Unfortunately, it seems the company is moving fast in that direction. Although the startup tries to make it ...
10 May 2022, 17:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Logic is a fantastic tool as long as you get your premises right. If you start your reasoning from something completely false, your conclusions will be wrong as well. An excellent example of that is all Tesla investors that insist having FSD on pub...
10 May 2022, 13:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the most remarkable things Toyota has to offer with the bZ4X is the battery pack warranty. The Japanese carmaker seems pretty confident that it will retain 90% of its capacity after ten years, or 240,000 kilometers (150,000 miles). Without a...
10 May 2022, 09:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Manufacturing is complex, and Tesla is learning about it the hard way. After the company decided to put all workers to live at Giga Shanghai to prevent new production disruptions, it had to face the harsh reality that vehicles can only leave assemb...
9 May 2022, 21:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January, Bollinger suspended the development of its electric vehicles and decided that it would only sell chassis for commercial applications. It seems the idea was indeed not only “absolutely necessary” – as Robert Bollinger p...
9 May 2022, 14:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford announced in March that it would launch seven new electric vehicles in Europe until 2024. They will join the Mach-E and the E-Transit – which are already for sale – to create an impressive offering of nine EVs. The first new offeri...
9 May 2022, 12:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Riversimple first announced its plans many years ago, it was dismissed by many as a waste of public money. The fact that the company is still around promoting its ideas – not only for personal transportation but also for the current econ...
9 May 2022, 10:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Everyone who opposed Tesla’s factory in Grünheide was unanimous about the water shortage risk in the region. When asked about that, Elon Musk joked that there was enough for everyone. A recent report shows how wrong he was: WSE (Wasserve...
7 May 2022, 20:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Journalism is not science, and it fails more than we would like to admit. Sources help reporters anticipate multiple crucial stories. Until they are confirmed, there’s a risk that the parts change their minds or even that the story was invent...
7 May 2022, 18:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Getting the money to buy Twitter is not the only obstacle in Elon Musk’s way toward ownership of this social media. A Twitter investor is suing both the Tesla CEO and this social media because of the deal. The Orlando Police Pension Fund s...
7 May 2022, 16:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The modern bubble car war is coming to an end with a clear winner. After Artega tried to make its own Isetta using Microlino’s original project, the Swiss company created a new car and made it up to production before its German competitor. Mi...
6 May 2022, 21:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we talked about how fundamental the unified cell was to Volkswagen’s strategy back in July 2021, we already knew that its third 40-GWh battery factory would be in Spain. The plan was to spend €4 billion ($4.2 billion at the current ...
6 May 2022, 18:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After revealing its Choco-SEBs and rumors about a plant in the U.S., it seems that CATL has more concrete plans for its first factory in North America. According to Reuters, the Chinese giant is in the final stages of selecting the site in which th...
6 May 2022, 14:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have never seen a four-door convertible, do not blame yourself. They are rare because they are almost impossible to make. Structurally speaking, they are doomed to twist at the slightest terrain variation. Yet, Henrik Fisker wants the Ronin ...
6 May 2022, 11:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main arguments for people to buy electric vehicles is that they do not require as much maintenance care as combustion-engined vehicles. Rich Benoit and the guys from Electrified Garage often reinforce that EVs actually have different dem...
5 May 2022, 23:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Wise men say that you can learn by experience – which can be painful – or through the experience of others. Lucid proved it assimilated the lessons from Rivian’s bad take and picked the second choice after announcing a price hike ...
5 May 2022, 22:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been hearing about the MEB Lite or MEB Entry for quite some time. SEAT would be in charge of it, so much so that the first concept to emerge with this platform was the Cupra UrbanRebel, and the first teaser was of the Seat product. The Volk...