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10 Mar 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lithium metal cells are a promise about to be fulfilled if we take into consideration all startups reporting their developments. After SES and QuantumScape, it is Sion Power’s time to disclose great results. Cells with its Licerion technology...
10 Mar 2022, 16:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The R1T received so much praise for the fantastic product it ended up being that people could never anticipate all the hardship Rivian would endure. To be honest, the whole world is going through the same challenging times. For a company giving its...
10 Mar 2022, 14:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla did not start the market of energy storage. Despite that, its solutions like the Powerwall, Powerpack, and Megapack are the ones that call most of the attention, either by its celebrations or failures. SVOLT wants a piece of that market and a...
9 Mar 2022, 19:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have already given autoevolution readers some examples of why Tesla and Elon Musk misunderstood the dangerous effects mass production can have, such as reproducing a mistake thousands of times. What about doing different products with the same na...
9 Mar 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Before World War II, swastikas were an innocent religious symbol. Although the word means "conducive to well-being" in Sanskrit, it began to suggest an entirely different thing after Adolf Hitler decided it would be a good element for his...
9 Mar 2022, 12:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Among the debates involving the war Russia is promoting against Ukraine, some find it reasonable to argue that oil dependency would not exist if all cars were electric. The naive argument fails to understand that Russia is also a significant suppli...
8 Mar 2022, 16:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On February 7, 2022, Tesla warned NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) that it would release an OTA (over-the-air) update to fix heat pump issues. At the time, we warned that the repair did not seem enough to prevent the problem g...
8 Mar 2022, 11:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Colin Chapman created Lotus, he wanted to race. His passenger cars were meant to fund racing and provide customers with driving fun. This is the reason behind the company’s motto: “Simplify, then add lightness.” As patent ima...
7 Mar 2022, 22:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It took the 1970s oil crisis for Brazilian dictators to impose ethanol as a way of avoiding oil dependency. Although the idea was relatively popular, other countries still debate if using crops makes sense, leading to second-generation ethanol &nda...
7 Mar 2022, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever an automaker has an important presentation to make, it follows a marketing strategy some of my colleagues have defined as information installments. You also know it as teasers: one for the interior, one for the taillights, and so forth. Vo...
7 Mar 2022, 14:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s no way to look at the GMC Hummer EV and think it makes any sense. In a recent article about it, I compared it to a down-to-Earth Fiat Strada. The meek unibody pickup truck has a larger cargo capacity than GM’s electric truck. Th...
7 Mar 2022, 12:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The best ways to explain any technology are the simplest ones. When people understand the direct benefits they offer, they are able to fully appreciate them. Check Nissan’s e-4ORCE system. It will control back-and-forth body sway starting wit...
7 Mar 2022, 09:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / By 2030, Aston Martin plans to electrify its “core portfolio.” Far from being a commitment to sell only electric cars, it shows that even the centenarian British brand is under pressure to go electric. To get there, Aston Martin announc...
5 Mar 2022, 12:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Not long ago, I wrote that Tesla could be doing the opposite of promoting electric mobility: it could be hurting it. A recent survey performed by Which? shows another example of how that can happen. According to the results, electric cars are the l...
4 Mar 2022, 22:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In November 2021, Volkswagen was already discussing if it would refurbish one of its current factories or build a new one to manufacture its most crucial electric vehicle so far. Known solely as Project Trinity, the EV was very likely to be made in...
4 Mar 2022, 21:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sometimes, the obvious must be repeated over and over again. People still try to present electric vehicles as more pollutant than ICE cars despite all the evidence against that. Sometimes, repeating the obvious can be pretty convenient, as a study ...
4 Mar 2022, 16:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from the Aptera and the Lightyear One, we were unaware of any other electric vehicle that uses solar cells to power its high voltage battery pack. Considering none of them is for sale yet, no electric car is powered by its own solar surfaces....
4 Mar 2022, 12:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera decided to break the mold when it comes to personal transportation with a vehicle focused on spending the least possible amount of energy moving. It went even further by making this trike generate its own energy with solar cells. Predictably...
4 Mar 2022, 09:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A few days ago, a rumor started circulating that Sony was looking for an automotive partner. The company’s goal was to put the Vision-S and the Vision-S 02 SUV in the market without having to invest billions of dollars to get that done. The r...
4 Mar 2022, 00:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ethan Joseph is a proud Tesla customer and also a Ford F-150 Lightning reservation holder. He had three EVs from the brand before ordering his Model X Plaid. At delivery, he was surprised to see the SUV had a different set of tires: summer Michelin...