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31 Aug 2023, 20:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I've shared here my experience when I sold my 2017 BMW 225xe and bought a 2002 Opel Zafira. Although my PHEV had a ridiculous electric range, I confess I miss plugging it and having it ready to drive. Kevin Williams' review of the new Toy...
31 Aug 2023, 15:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I started covering electric cars in general and Tesla in particular, people loved the brand. They still praised the premium experience in Tesla Service Centers, the extra mile the staff would go to satisfy customers, and how the brand's b...
31 Aug 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The thing with deadlines is that they get shorter the more we talk about them. When I first started writing about the Fisker Personal Electric Automotive Revolution – PEAR, in short – it was four years from production lines. Now that th...
30 Aug 2023, 18:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Alfa Romeo promised it would create a supercar, and we had the official confirmation on August 30. The Italian icon decided to give the 1967 33 Stradale a modern interpretation. Curiously, it follows the same steps as Totem Automobili, the company ...
30 Aug 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters reminded us that Tesla will face two crucial lawsuits in September and October. Both arise from deaths that occurred while Autopilot was active. The whole legal discussion they will bring is fundamental not only to the future of Autopilot a...
28 Aug 2023, 18:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Battery electric vehicle (BEV) advocates rushed to absolve them of wrongdoing after Automobilwoche declared they had nothing to do with the fire that destroyed the Fremantle Highway. Their story is based on something published by Automotive Logisti...
26 Aug 2023, 19:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first told my readers about an Austin-made Tesla Model Y with a cracked front casting, the owner had yet to confirm how serious the problem was. It did not take long: apart from using a flashlight and a mechanic pick to show it affected more...
25 Aug 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever I discover a new problem with a Tesla, investors and advocates argue that it is anecdotal evidence. Trying to explain that early cases could lead to others never helped. Yet, it was always what followed. This is the first story I write in ...
25 Aug 2023, 09:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I was shocked after seeing the headlines about Tesla suing two whistleblowers. That was the BEV maker's answer to what is now more popularly known as Tesla Files. Most of them said the company was suing former employees who caused a data leak ...
24 Aug 2023, 20:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Matthias Schmidt recently published that Chinese companies have not managed to obtain more than 3% of the new car market in Europe. In a way, they are still establishing their dealership networks and trying to gain buyers' trust, which takes a...
23 Aug 2023, 21:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla insists it has enough demand for its cars despite constantly reducing their prices. It even created a new derivative for the Model S and Model X that allows it to sell them for $10,000 less so that it does not look like a discount. Yet, its i...
22 Aug 2023, 20:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 12, I proposed a deeper discussion about how automakers establish the range of their vehicles. Although that is a much more predictable process in Europe than it is in the US, the truth is that WLTP ranges are also difficult to match in c...
22 Aug 2023, 11:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It took Tesla quite a while to address the episode known as Tesla Files. If that does not ring a bell to you, the German newspaper Handelsblatt gave the world a demonstration of journalism at its finest: it exposed how the battery electric vehicle ...
20 Aug 2023, 22:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It took a while to clarify why Amprius had different performance numbers for what appeared to be the same cell, but it was worth the wait. The company's chief technical officer (CTO) answered all the questions we had and presented a more preci...
20 Aug 2023, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This year's Earth Overshoot Day fell on August 2. Since 2011, it has been happening in the early days of this month, which may give the impression that things have been more or less stable in the past 12 years. However, when you think about wh...
19 Aug 2023, 07:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla started reducing prices, its usual advocates thought it was a fantastic move to increase sales. Some even parrotted Elon Musk's surreal excuse for that: that "demand at scale is limited by affordability," so Tesla had to s...
17 Aug 2023, 21:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ternary cells – such as NMC or NCA – have a higher energy density than those made with lithium iron phosphate (LFP). That does not mean that a battery pack with ternary batteries will have a higher energy density at the pack level than ...
17 Aug 2023, 15:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ask anyone why Tesla has the world's highest market cap among automakers, and nobody will offer you a sensible answer. That's because there isn't one: Tesla sells a fraction of what Volkswagen and Toyota can deliver every year, its p...
16 Aug 2023, 19:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Fremantle Highway may have raised the same questions as the Felicity Ace, but the roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo ship faced a different fate – so far. After departing the Bremerhaven port in Germany toward Singapore with 3,783 cars, it cau...
16 Aug 2023, 14:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A while ago, Tesla owners would fear or even mock those with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery packs. After the company adopted the chemistry and started selling vehicles with it, these customers now brag about having it. They can charge to 100%...