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5 May 2022, 16:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our readers know that Tesla’s Safety Score has been controversial since day one, back in September 2021. Consumer Reports said it made people drive more dangerously, trying to get a high score and (eventually) access to FSD (Full Self-Driving...
5 May 2022, 12:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / DeLorean once said that its electric concept car inspired by the DMC-12 would make its world premiere at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance in August. Despite that, the company now presents a countdown clock on its website pointing to May 3...
5 May 2022, 11:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems there will be very little for NIO to reveal about the ES7 when it officially presents it this month. We still need to learn about the prices and the interior, but the car’s design has already been exposed by Weibo bloggers once. Well...
4 May 2022, 17:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In our last article about the Microlino 2.0, we discovered that Artega was under new management. In other words, the company that tried to make a Microlino competitor based on the Microlino itself went bust. According to Autohaus.de, the buyer is E...
4 May 2022, 14:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk put someone in a Spandex suit to dance on a stage during AI Day. Supposedly, that was to demonstrate what the next big thing for Tesla would be. In the end, it just got people asking whether he was mocking Tesla or the people who believed...
4 May 2022, 11:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The ill-fated Fisker Karma was Henrik Fisker’s first solo flight as an automotive manufacturer. The car changed names several times after Fisker left the project, but the idea must have remained in his mind. The new Fisker Ronin proves that i...
4 May 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / DeLorean is yet to disclose the name of its new concept car. Despite that, it suggested with some hashtags that it could be named EVolved, so we’ll call it like that until we get the real deal. In a message to its followers, the company relea...
4 May 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Giga Shanghai stayed closed for 22 days due to Chinese policies to fight the global pandemic. Apparently, it only managed to reopen thanks to Shanghai's efforts to convince China’s central government that it was possible. That’s wh...
3 May 2022, 23:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January, Autocar said that Tobias Moers would leave Aston Martin. The former Mercedes-AMG executive had a controversial managerial style. At the time, Lawrence Stroll denied changes. On May 4, the reports may be confirmed at the Q1 2022 earnings...
3 May 2022, 22:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian said it chose to build its next plant in Georgia because of the talent pool it offers. Multiple companies turned that down for other states in the past. One of the advantages of sticking with the plant near Atlanta just emerged: $1.464 billi...
3 May 2022, 18:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Microlino released a second video of its Italian production line. It clearly presents a more advanced production stage than the one we showed our readers last April. The new footage comes with more information about how things are going there. A...
3 May 2022, 13:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A Tesla owner identified simply as Ms. Zheng went through some creepy stuff with her Model 3. On April 27, at around 9:30 PM, she parked her EV in the garage with her daughter after picking her up from her English classes. After restarting the car...
3 May 2022, 11:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Seeing a wrecked 2006 Ford GT is something that will lead gear heads to tears anywhere in the world. This is probably why John Peddie’s pictures on Facebook went viral after he published them on April 29. They showed a damaged 2006 Heritage E...
3 May 2022, 08:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Dinah Washington used to sing, “what a difference a day makes.” Two years can make even more, especially in the automotive sector. In November 2019, Mullen said it would sell a Chinese car called Qiantu K50 in the U.S. At the Los Angele...
2 May 2022, 19:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Herbert Diess took about two hours of his busy day to answer questions from Wolfsburg residents in a YouTube live transmission. The Volkswagen Group talked (in German) about many topics, but he drove people’s attention when he revealed that b...
2 May 2022, 13:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai and Kia invested $84 million in Rimac in 2019 to have 12% of the Croatian company. They then started to develop new joint projects until Porsche approached Rimac, eventually leading the latter to run Bugatti. It seems Hyundai prefers not to...
30 Apr 2022, 20:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / “Donne e motori: gioie e dolori.” This old Italian saying states that women and cars cause a mix of joy and pain to those in love with them. Although most people can relate to how relationships are complicated, we do not doubt that the ...
30 Apr 2022, 18:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In April 2020, Elon Musk suggested Tesla plants would not be named Gigafactories anymore. They would be called Terafactories, implying they would deliver more than 1 TWh in battery packs. With the 4680 cell delays, BYD is closer to achieving 1 TWh ...
30 Apr 2022, 16:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nissan announced this week that Datsun would bite the dust again. The first time it did that, it actually became Nissan, which is more evolution than death. After all, we do not say a caterpillar died so that a butterfly could emerge, right? Howeve...
30 Apr 2022, 12:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / How long should any dealer take to fix a car seat? If they are busy but don't need to replace it, a few hours should do the trick. Seun Han’s 2022 Model X Plaid was with Tesla for 28 days when she decided to take the problem to Twitter a...