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30 Mar 2022, 16:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On January 7, Sawyer Merritt disclosed “several changes” to the Model 3 and Model Y. Among them was the elimination of the “center instrument panel speaker.” The Tesla unofficial spokesman said the company did that “to...
30 Mar 2022, 13:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lithium-sulfur cells are as much a promise as solid-state batteries. Thanks to sulfur properties, they could offer three times more energy density than current ternary cells at a fraction of the cost if they could resist more than a few cycles. The...
30 Mar 2022, 10:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volkswagen said that it was willing to sell its MEB platform to small car manufacturers, the Meyers Manx immediately came to mind. It is probably the most iconic vehicle ever built over the Beetle architecture, and a modern electric Meyers Man...
29 Mar 2022, 22:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / VinFast may not be a famous carmaker right now, but there is plenty of interesting news related to it. The company invested in StoreDot, a battery startup with bold promises and little evidence of progress. It also hired Michael Lohscheller and los...
29 Mar 2022, 17:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Hispano Suiza delivered the first Carmen Boulogne in the U.S. to Michael Fux, nobody seemed to remember that the brand trademark’s ownership was in dispute not long ago. Without hearing back from Erwin Leo Himmel and the Maguari HS1 GTS...
29 Mar 2022, 14:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz cannot risk doing anything wrong with the next generation of the GLC. The company’s best-seller has sold more than 2.5 million units since it was presented as the GLK in 2008. Almost ready to disclose its 2023 iteration, the Ger...
29 Mar 2022, 08:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / LFP cells are cheaper and more robust than ternary batteries. What makes them the ugly ducklings in the automotive world is the low energy density they present. However, that is changing fast, and these cells are getting significant increases in th...
28 Mar 2022, 22:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Besides running his 1966 Volvo P1800 for more than 3 million miles, Irv Gordon was a lovely guy. Volvo embraced him as an official ambassador and allowed him to drive new Volvo vehicles until his death in November 2018. Hansjörg Eberhard von G...
28 Mar 2022, 19:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In January 2021, Donald Trump did not leave the White House without taking one last measure about the automotive industry: he delayed a 2016 regulation that increased the penalty for automakers that failed to comply with CAFE (Corporate Average Fue...
28 Mar 2022, 16:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When rumors stated that Tesla would present a 1-million-mile (1.6-million-kilometer) battery, CATL disclosed its cells would endure 2 million kilometers (1.243 million miles). Despite that, Tesla bought LFP cells from CATL, probably because it had ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO wants to be recognized as a luxury brand. That’s why we had rumors circulating about an affordable brand until William Li said it would be to NIO what Toyota is to Lexus. Interestingly, the ET7 shows that NIO will get there by charging a ...
28 Mar 2022, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have never heard about Melilla, you are not alone. This is one of the two autonomous cities belonging to Spain, although they are in Africa – the other is Ceuta. The entire city depends on an Endesa thermal power station to provide ele...
28 Mar 2022, 06:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In May 2020, Tesla was supposed to keep its Fremont plant closed due to COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Alameda county. Elon Musk put the plant to work again in violation of the shelter-in-place order and said that he would be in the factory to be...
27 Mar 2022, 19:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In our previous article about the Lotus Type 132, we said that Geely used Clive Chapman to present the reveal date for the car and also to excuse the company for making an electric SUV. We also mentioned that this vehicle would need a name started ...
26 Mar 2022, 21:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Cupra gave its first unique model the excellent five-cylinder engine of iconic Volkswagen group vehicles. With that, it created the Formentor VZ5, limited to 7,000 units. Despite its more than reasonable power of 287 kW (385 hp), some of its owners...
26 Mar 2022, 19:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people ask who came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer is so evident that the question got outdated. Eggs existed way before birds emerged: first with fish, then with reptiles. Apply that to FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles), and the ...
25 Mar 2022, 20:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the U.S., Tesla has no issues selling cars with Full Self-Driving software that does not drive its vehicles. In Germany, the American company apparently calls it “Volles Potenzial für autonomes Fahren,” or “full potential ...
25 Mar 2022, 14:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO revealed impressive numbers in its Q4 2021 financial results presentation. It sold 91,429 vehicles in 2021, an increase of 109.1% compared to its 2020 numbers. It completed more than 7.6 million battery swaps in its more than 700 Power Swap sta...
25 Mar 2022, 08:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It could be funny if it were not tragical: Elon Musk makes jokes on Twitter, and Tesla fans reply, trying to get help. That is far from unusual these days but a recent case exposed how bad things are at Tesla. A Tesla customer bought a Model Y and ...
24 Mar 2022, 23:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It has almost become a tradition for automakers to anticipate a car presentation with its crash tests. Sometimes, they even try to match the premiere with official results from the respective NCAP entity in charge of these evaluations. It is a way ...