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25 Apr 2022, 08:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With all the hype around electric vehicles, very few people seem to consider that these cars will eventually age. When they do, some of their core components will have to be replaced to keep them working, such as their battery packs. Either you do ...
24 Apr 2022, 17:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid has a fascinating energy-efficiency proposition and a remarkable first car, the Air. Despite that, it presents issues that either frustrate its CEO's ambitions or just make it evident how hard it is to build cars. Edmunds’ review o...
23 Apr 2022, 18:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest Tesla Q1 2022 earnings call was a familiar collection of irrelevant questions and promises that neither Elon Musk nor his company manages to deliver when they pledge to, if ever. Every once in a while, the people in charge of these calls...
22 Apr 2022, 22:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 9, 2021, we told our readers that Mazda was already promising the PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) version of the MX-30 for 2022. Automotive News managed to confirm it with the Japanese company and got a deadline for that: the second half ...
22 Apr 2022, 18:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After we wrote about a frunk lid recall in Europe affecting not only the Tesla Model S but also the Model 3, some readers rightfully said we were probably in front of two different recalls. After all, they had diverse reasons to happen, even if the...
22 Apr 2022, 17:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Elon Musk announced Tesla would eliminate radars from its vehicles to pursue a vision-only autonomous system, we could not imagine his clients would take that so literally. Either that or we have a fantastic irony with a Tesla crashing into a ...
22 Apr 2022, 10:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GAC Aion is the NEV (new energy vehicle) division of GAC. In August 2021, it revealed that its GAC Aion V would be able to charge at 6C, with a speed of 480 kW. The Chinese company also said it would offer battery swapping. On April 21, the company...
21 Apr 2022, 19:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla opened two new factories in Q1 2022. Giga Grünheide started to operate in March, and Giga Austin in April. It is still too early to see the impact they will have on the company, but Tesla had good results to celebrate: $3.3 billion in pr...
21 Apr 2022, 11:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Smart plans to stick with its new naming strategy, as weird as it is. While its first EV is named #1, the second should be christened #2, and we don’t blame the fifth-grader in you for making scatological jokes about that. Thankfully, Smart&r...
20 Apr 2022, 19:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The first attempt to create an Aptera started in 2005 and ended in 2011. In 2007, a new company was created while working for Aptera: Andromeda Interfaces Inc. Fast forward to 2022, Andromeda is the new Aptera’s latest acquisition. Aptera ...
20 Apr 2022, 17:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At Rivian’s Q4 2021 earnings call, RJ Scaringe said that the company was developing a new EV architecture with 800V, bidirectional charging, and LFP batteries. We would be waiting for more information on that if it was not for an Automotive N...
20 Apr 2022, 16:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / First, Tesla cut radars from its cars and said it was pursuing Tesla Vision instead. Then, it removed adjustable lumbar support because its statistics said nobody used it. More recently, the company stopped delivering its cars with mobile connector...
20 Apr 2022, 11:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Toyota presented the bZ4X, it was only a matter of time before we saw Lexus’ version of the EV, and now we finally have it. Called RZ 450e, the first dedicated battery-electric vehicle from Toyota’s luxury division (remember the U...
20 Apr 2022, 09:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main problems with the Lightyear One is that it will cost €150,000 ($162,180 at the current exchange rate). That will make its 946 units even rarer than this number already suggested. After announcing LeasePlan would have 5,000 unit...
19 Apr 2022, 18:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Alameda County ordered a lockdown, Elon Musk reopened Tesla’s factory, called the measure fascist, and dared authorities to arrest him. When China did the same in Shanghai, he did not say a word. His advocates tried to dodge comparisons ...
19 Apr 2022, 11:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz decided that the best way to give the EQS an SUV version was to make its sedan get a station wagon version that also looked taller. That’s the best description we can provide for the EQS SUV’s style. It is also worth notin...
19 Apr 2022, 10:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we spoke about Microlino was in January – when we got an explanation for why deliveries had not started until that point. According to the Swiss company, global supply issues were to blame. However, it expected production to beg...
19 Apr 2022, 06:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / To defend the lousy quality control of Tesla cars, one of its advocates once wrote that the company sold prototypes, not production vehicles. While that is true regarding software – especially Autopilot and FSD – the cars should not be ...
18 Apr 2022, 21:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / RJ Scaringe recently said that all battery production capacity combined is not even close to 10% of what EVs will need in ten years. In other words, more than 90% of the manufacturing capacity we’ll need has not even been created. That shows ...
18 Apr 2022, 16:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On April 17, we told our readers how swappable battery modules could make a revolution in EV adoption. Little did we know that CATL would officially kick off its EVOGO service the following day in Xiamen, China. For those that did not read our arti...