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24 Mar 2022, 17:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Deus means God in Latin and Portuguese. Some brands have already invoked divine forces to name their products – such as Citroën with its DS (Déesse, or goddess, in French) – but none had named itself as the Almighty until re...
24 Mar 2022, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In a globalized world, you’d expect globalized products to have the same treatment everywhere at the same time – especially if that involves safety concerns. Thanks to a Tesla recall related to rearview camera issues, we have seen that ...
23 Mar 2022, 20:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On March 12, Carlos Tavares said that he was confident that Stellantis could catch up with Tesla in EV sales in the next two years. In other words, the CEO thinks his company will sell as many electric cars as Tesla by 2024. Stellantis is making su...
23 Mar 2022, 15:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Volkswagen Group is heavily investing in electric cars. Despite that, it will also make sure that customers have other options, such as mHEV (mild hybrid electric vehicles) and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid vehicles). The latest evidence for that is a ...
23 Mar 2022, 13:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lotus announced its first SUV would be revealed on March 29. Aware of the criticism it has and will generate among people who followed Colin Chapman’s motto (“Simplify, then add lightness”), the company put Clive Chapman to disclo...
23 Mar 2022, 13:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford is about to start delivering the F-150 Lightning to its customers. However, it wants to reassure them that the electric pickup truck was properly tested in all situations in which people would use a combustion-engined pickup truck – towi...
23 Mar 2022, 12:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Porsche named one of Taycan’s derivatives as Turbo, which does not make any sense. Turbochargers are used to force more air into combustion engines to increase their performance. Could we have more electric vehicles using that reference? If y...
22 Mar 2022, 20:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most car companies are now discussing if they should verticalize components. That means that they are still studying the benefits of building these parts on their own, something that Tesla follows as much as possible. BYD is passed that stage. Apar...
22 Mar 2022, 01:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / CATL is the largest battery manufacturer in the world. In China, it supplies Tesla with LFP cells and several local companies with ternary cells. With Tesla’s decision to start using LFP batteries in its cars in the U.S., CATL will have to pr...
22 Mar 2022, 00:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nissan is spending a lot of time and resources promoting its e-4ORCE traction system for the new Ariya. What it is not doing so far is showing journalists and consumers what a vehicle with this option actually does. At least the Japanese company is...
21 Mar 2022, 23:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is so at ease with OTA (over-the-air) updates that it even blames them for defects in its cars, as it did with the heat pump issue. Volkswagen is approaching them in a much more cautious way. That’s why ID Software 3.0 will first only b...
21 Mar 2022, 14:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford has excellent news for the customers that will start getting their F-150 Lightning trucks this spring. The EPA range these vehicles will have is actually higher than what the company initially estimated. We had anticipated this on March 17 but...
21 Mar 2022, 13:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already told our readers why Ukraine is a big importer of used electric cars. Ukraine had the first Chevy Bolt EV fire that we are aware of and also received a Tesla lemon we talked about here. Now a tweet about EVs in Ukraine is causing co...
20 Mar 2022, 19:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 11, 2021, a taxi driver from Paris was driving his family back home after dinner at a restaurant when something bad happened. The Tesla Model 3 hit 21 people, a glass recycling bin, rental bikes, and metal posts. To the police, the driv...
20 Mar 2022, 17:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I read a text on CNEVpost last February that stuck in my head. In it, Wu Haiyun shared her personal experience with why she could not avoid buying a Tesla even if she was not exactly a fan of the brand. Thinking about that more recently, it came to...
19 Mar 2022, 18:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we first heard about people opposing the Rivian plant near Atlanta, Georgia, we had the impression that those who lived in the area just did not want the company to change their way of life. JoEllen Artz, the president of the No2Rivian organiz...
18 Mar 2022, 19:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carver seems to be doing remarkably well after getting back to life with an electric machine. Apart from the regular version and the Cargo, customers started demanding a derivative that could be driven on highways. The Dutch company did not let the...
18 Mar 2022, 13:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The next-generation X1 will be presented in 2022 along with its all-electric version, the iX1. As is often the case, it should be larger than the current X1. That makes the teaser image released by BMW look even more strange: the iX1 seems to be ju...
18 Mar 2022, 00:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Nissan used a motorized tray to demonstrate how good its e-4ORCE technology is by carrying a bowl of ramen without dropping sauce, that was genius. However, now the company created a radio-controlled car to demonstrate the traction system &nda...
17 Mar 2022, 23:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The purpose of performing tests with vehicles is to have a fair way to compare them. Magazines around the world do that, as well as some government entities such as EPA. The problem is that EPA presents two different test methods, which makes some ...