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18 Apr 2022, 07:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 7, 2018, Elon Musk tweeted that he considered taking Tesla private. He claimed he would pay $420 per share and had the funds to do that were secured. This tweet led to a settlement with SEC that Musk is now disputing by claiming he indeed...
17 Apr 2022, 15:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric mobility may sound simple, but it is pretty far from it. A big battery pack offers more range, but most people will not use it most of the time. In road trips, it may allow them to travel further but will also demand that they spend more t...
16 Apr 2022, 12:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some days ago, we mentioned that the Nissan Ariya was supposed to introduce the CMF-EV platform to the world, but that production delays would probably give the Renault Mégane E-TECH that primacy. When the French electric SUV was about to cr...
16 Apr 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Our readers will remember that we have been tracking when Tesla recalls in the U.S. happen in China or Europe and the other way around as well. In January, we told them that a frunk latch recall for the Model S in the U.S. from December 21, 2021, o...
14 Apr 2022, 23:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Owen Diaz has been in a legal battle with Tesla for quite a while. He and his attorneys managed to get the company convicted to pay $130 million in punitive damages. In the last update about this case, the federal judge William Orrick reduced that ...
14 Apr 2022, 16:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The VinFast stand attracted a lot of attention at the 2022 New York Auto Show . The company seized it to announce a partnership with Electrify America and also the prices for the VF 8 and VF 9. The best news could be a subscription plan for the bat...
13 Apr 2022, 23:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Bible states that God revealed Himself to Moses and a handful of prophets throughout human history. Deus introduced itself and its first car to the automotive world at the New York Auto Show, promising to do miracles with its electric powertrai...
13 Apr 2022, 18:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford said deliveries of the F-150 Lightning would begin in spring 2022. On Twitter, Jim Farley just confirmed the precise date for that to happen: April 26. The Ford CEO just said “it’s time” and shared a picture and a link for th...
13 Apr 2022, 16:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At the New York Auto Forum, the Hyundai Motor America North America had good news to share. According to José Muñoz, the company will soon produce a “suite” of electric vehicles in its Montgomery plant. The first one will ...
13 Apr 2022, 11:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One thing that classic car fans seem to detest about EV conversions is that they change how some vehicles were conceived. For the same reason, some of them hate restomod projects: putting new engines under the hood would put the essence of these ve...
13 Apr 2022, 08:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Audi’s Artemis project has already revealed two concept cars, the skysphere and the grandsphere (like that, without capital letters). Both of them are pretty distant from what a production vehicle could be, and we expect the third concept to ...
12 Apr 2022, 23:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone willing to buy a Lucid Air Dream Edition will have to wait for current ones to reach the used car market: they are sold out. The good news is that Lucid started delivering the Air Grand Touring and promised that the Air Grand Touring Perform...
12 Apr 2022, 17:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automotive industry has been heavily penalized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from supply shortages, they are also facing lockdowns all over the world. China’s shelter-in-place order for Shanghai stopped factories and also events such as...
12 Apr 2022, 16:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We know that Lightyear plans to start delivering its first vehicle to customers in 2022. Production was expected to begin in the summer. However, Patrick Creevey updated us by saying that it will only happen “later this year.” Lightyear...
12 Apr 2022, 10:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Honda is not only a car manufacturer. It is also a relevant motorcycle and power units producer. Think about all it will have to do to adapt these businesses to feed on electricity. The Japanese company explained its plans to achieve that and revea...
11 Apr 2022, 22:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Chrysler presented the Airflow concept at the 2022 CES, we were left with the impression that it was pretty much the production version apart from minor details. Stellantis seems to want to correct that impression with a new version of that c...
11 Apr 2022, 16:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We know that Lincoln has been working on an electric car for quite a while. On July 30, 2021, we published an article showing spy pictures of a Lincoln mule that looked like the Ford Mustang Mach-E. The luxury division has now revealed it will pres...
11 Apr 2022, 15:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although the supply chain is still a mess due to multiple factors, it seems we are in times of opening new electric car factories. After Tesla presented Giga Grünheide and Giga Austin, it is time for BYD to open a new plant as well. On April 1...
11 Apr 2022, 10:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk has recently embarrassed himself by claiming that Peter Rawlinson never was Tesla’s chief engineer. There are plenty of documents to prove him wrong, which the Lucid CEO elegantly framed as “historical revisionism.” Now ...
8 Apr 2022, 20:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On April 7, Tesla recalled 127,785 units of the Model 3 due to a rear motor inverter defect in China. Among these cars, 34,207 were imported from Fremont, meaning American vehicles are also affected. Tesla warned NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Saf...