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30 Apr 2022, 10:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Peter Rawlinson turned Atieva into Lucid and helped it build a remarkable EV. Edmunds recently pointed out some inconsistencies about the vehicle, which did not prevent the Lucid CEO from pocketing $263 million in stocks. Ironically, it was all tha...
29 Apr 2022, 23:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla opened reservations for the Model 3 in 2016, it charged $1,000 from everybody who wanted the company’s most affordable EV in several countries. Among them was India, and the customers there are still either patiently waiting for th...
29 Apr 2022, 23:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / For a company that already sold 200,000 vehicles, it may seem that NIO always had a factory. To the surprise of many, that is not the case: JAC manufactures vehicles for NIO. NeoPark will be NIO’s first factory, and the first car to be made t...
29 Apr 2022, 18:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We know that Occam’s razor states that the simplest explanation is frequently the true one. Despite that, it is difficult to buy the excuse that a simple mistake made the Tesla Model S recall related to the frunk latch became something broade...
29 Apr 2022, 14:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Land Rover had to give up on the classic Defender because it did not make sense to update it to current emission rules, few people thought that INEOS could make a similar vehicle. Despite that, the company just announced the prices and final ...
29 Apr 2022, 09:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / General Motors seized Autoblog’s curiosity to clarify something about the Spark EV. After EV-Resource warned that it was no longer making battery pack replacements for the small electric hatchback, the automaker told Autoblog that this was a ...
28 Apr 2022, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There is one thing that QuantumScape said it had to solve for its solid-state cells to succeed: a format that deals well with the swelling that lithium metal batteries naturally present. In its letter to shareholders, the company stated that it has...
28 Apr 2022, 12:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nikola started making trucks on March 21 in its Coolidge plant in Arizona. Don’t ask us why, but it only celebrated the commercial serial production on April 27, probably because the first shipments of the Tre BEV have just started. The ce...
28 Apr 2022, 09:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from Tesla losing a bit less than three Twitters in value on April 26, Elon Musk has been collecting good news this week. The latest one is that he won the SolarCity trial in which he was accused of buying the company just to prevent personal...
27 Apr 2022, 21:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / ZipCharge is pretty confident about its Go Powerbanks. After the company presented its 4-kWh storage devices in November 2021, the company now presented GoHubs, which are charging stations based around its suitcase-like power banks. As we told y...
27 Apr 2022, 19:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The globalized world showed us how connected we are in the most educational and cruel ways possible. If one country faces a disaster, a contagious disease, an industry disruption, or war, all others will be affected. Few have realized this also kil...
27 Apr 2022, 16:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The original Volkswagen Bus had a drag coefficient of 0.38. Add its larger frontal area to that equation, and you’ll end up with a vehicle that was not that efficient. The ID. BUZZ had to improve that and achieved a drag coefficient of only 0...
27 Apr 2022, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We just wrote about the struggle to bring some brands back from the dead with some examples. TVR was apparently saved by going electric, and the story repeats itself with another brand: Wiesmann. The difference here is that the German brand is in a...
27 Apr 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been discussing selling its cars in India for quite some time. Although Elon Musk states he is against tax incentives, it is precisely Tesla’s request for special treatment in that regard that is preventing sales to Indian customers...
27 Apr 2022, 08:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Ford launched the F-150 Lightning and announced deliveries in the next few days, we learned about a curious situation at the event: a power outage. At this point, we have no idea if it was on purpose or something unexpected. The deal is that ...
26 Apr 2022, 23:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems RAM and Stellantis were not the only ones wanting to have a slice of the attention Ford got with the F-150 Lightning launch event. On the same day, GM also aired the first ad for the Chevrolet Silverado EV, which the company is calling an ...
26 Apr 2022, 19:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 19, 2021, Ford revealed that it would sell an electric pickup truck by spring 2022. People criticized the carmaker for announcing it almost two years after Tesla presented the Cybertruck – it would arrive after its competitor. On April...
26 Apr 2022, 14:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Borgward died in June 2021, just a few years after being revived. Datsun also bit the dust more recently in India. That shows how difficult it is to bring a brand back to life once it is gone. TVR has been waiting since 2017 for that to happen, and...
26 Apr 2022, 09:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On April 26, Ford will start deliveries of the F-150 Lightning, the second modern electric pickup truck to reach the market. On April 25, RAM decided it was a good time to share on Twitter that a concept of its competitor will be presented by fall....
25 Apr 2022, 15:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lexus has set to sell only electric cars in China, the U.S., and Europe by 2030. Five years later, it will only sell EVs worldwide. The issue is setting anything in stone while EV technology keeps developing. According to Automotive News, that led ...