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3 Mar 2022, 22:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have written many stories about electric cars that ended up in Ukraine. The first Chevy Bolt EV that caught fire belonged to Valeriy Laguta, who imported it from the U.S. and saw it burn in September 2019. In August 2021, Sergio Rodriguez told me...
3 Mar 2022, 18:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian started March announcing prices would go up. All vehicles that were not delivered until that point would get the price hike, which Reuters said could be as high as 20%. It seems RJ Scaringe heard what furious reservation holders had to say: ...
3 Mar 2022, 13:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford wants to make sure the F-150 Lightning will work in all conditions, as most legacy automakers do. This is why the company has taken six prototypes of the electric pickup truck to a restricted military base in Alaska. Curiously, the tests seem ...
3 Mar 2022, 11:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Hyundai released its plans to present 17 EV models and to sell 1.87 million electric cars by 2030, we said Kia would have at least ten new electric offerings as well. We were conservative: the Korean brand confirmed it will have 14 new EV mod...
2 Mar 2022, 23:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai is enjoying a lot of good feedback with the Ioniq 5. If you count Kia as part of Hyundai (which it is), the Kia EV6 must also make the company proud. Both sit on the E-GMP, a dedicated EV architecture that gave Hyundai quite a competitive e...
2 Mar 2022, 17:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / More and more carmakers are turning to QuantumScape to get solid-state batteries. Apart from Volkswagen, the solid-state platform startup mentioned it also had “a top-10 global manufacturer and an international luxury automotive company&...
2 Mar 2022, 15:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Few may remember this, but the Tesla Model 3 was supposed to be called Tesla Model E. This is why Elon Musk made fun of people talking about a Model 2: it was never supposed to be called that way. Ford had the trademark for Model E, and it did not ...
2 Mar 2022, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In a recent article, we warned our readers that more automakers willing to build electric cars with the same raw material sources we have today would deepen their scarcity, driving prices up. Rivian made that very clear by increasing by up to 20% h...
28 Feb 2022, 20:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO sold its EVs with swappable batteries exclusively in China for years until it felt confident enough to expand to other markets. Norway probably was selected as the company’s first foreign market because it is practically a testbed for ele...
28 Feb 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are only two ways to make a profit in the automotive industry: selling millions of affordable cars or thousands of more upscale ones. According to Sergio Marchionne, those following the first alternative needed to produce at least 6 million v...
28 Feb 2022, 13:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In August 2021, we told our readers that Rivian wanted to have a factory in Europe and was studying offers from the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A recent rumor suggests that the decision was probably made, even if things will start more modest...
28 Feb 2022, 10:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD promised to present more than ten new models in 2022 alone. We already know of a convertible and a station wagon based on the Han for European markets, but there is more. The Chinese carmaker revealed the first official sketches of a concept ba...
27 Feb 2022, 23:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Julius Caesar divorced Pompeia, he said that Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion. Little did he know that virtue signaling was set to become a modern plague. Some people think it is more important to seem concerned with the world&rsq...
27 Feb 2022, 21:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When April Gillmore told us that her Tesla Model 3 Performance came without the brake pad on the left rear wheel, some Tesla advocates tried to dismiss that from being true. Confronted with the evidence, their excuse was that it was anecdotal evide...
27 Feb 2022, 19:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Since electric cars with massive battery packs emerged, people ask where we will get enough cells for them. It was already a concern before a pandemic, a semiconductor shortage, and Vladimir Putin dragging Russia into a senseless invasion against U...
27 Feb 2022, 14:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pete Gruber has been saying for quite a while that the original Tesla Roadster will become collectible. Although they are not that old, they are rare and are the ones that made Tesla a $1 trillion company – now $800 billion, but still droppin...
26 Feb 2022, 18:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo has been revealing its plans for the future explicitly and also inadvertently. The Swedish carmaker said it would only produce electric cars by 2030. What it did not tell is how it will get there, but Automotive News is doing great work at di...
25 Feb 2022, 20:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we last spoke about the Model D, it was clear that this vehicle would be extreme. We thought it would be a statement against the lack of battery pack replacement policies, like the ICE-T (Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla) was. As the project ...
25 Feb 2022, 15:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 6, 2021, Elon Musk asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his shares to pay taxes. On November 5, his brother Kimbal sold $109 million in stock. The SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) allegedly d...
24 Feb 2022, 23:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We already know that the two Nikola Tre FCEVs are being tested by AB Inbev, more widely known in the U.S. by its old name, Anheuser-Busch. We also know that the fuel cell truck should have a range of more than 500 miles with full hydrogen tanks. Fo...