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20 Feb 2022, 20:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota has insisted on this for quite a while already. Renault seems to have jumped on the same train with its latest concept car. It does not matter who proposes to burn hydrogen on a combustion engine: rest assured this is a desperate measure to ...
20 Feb 2022, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On February 18, Tesla tweeted that it had produced its one millionth 4680 in January. The picture presents the factory in which these cells are being made, on Kato Road, and multiple Tesla workers in front of it. Drew Baglino, Tesla’s senior ...
19 Feb 2022, 19:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When one thinks of electric cars, the first thing that comes to mind is energy efficiency. In other words, traveling further with spending fewer resources – something that Earth Overshoot Day would thank us for. All current electric cars head...
19 Feb 2022, 16:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis is making the most of “synergy” among its brands. The latest on that relates to the Alfa Romeo Tonale. Recently presented, the compact SUV was already filmed at the Pomigliano d'Arco factory in its Dodge version. That is...
19 Feb 2022, 11:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not often that cargo ships catch fire in the middle of the ocean. That was the unfortunate fate of Felicity Ace, a 200-meter-long (656-foot-long) vessel that was carrying 3,965 cars from the Volkswagen group to the U.S. While we still don&rsq...
18 Feb 2022, 22:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The two Nikola Tre FCEV alpha prototypes made their first journey driving 350 miles (563 kilometers) on a tank of hydrogen, as autoevolution readers have known since January 28. What they were still waiting to learn was how far the production vehic...
18 Feb 2022, 13:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It was more than expected that Tesla vehicles made in China also presented the heat pump issue that Transport Canada is investigating. As we mentioned before, a Model 3 sold in Finland and produced in the Asian country also lost heating all of a su...
18 Feb 2022, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz decided to do the right thing to its Chinese customers that complained about issues with the EQC. After 68 of them made a public complaint about a motor flaw, the German company announced it would recall 10,104 cars due to that proble...
18 Feb 2022, 08:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports does not use its Overall Score only to rate its top picks when it comes to cars. The consumer organization also ranks the brands. In 2021, Mazda was the best one, but it lost its place to Subaru in 2022. The last one is Jeep, but t...
17 Feb 2022, 22:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape does not seem to feel pressed with the progress of its competitors. SES said it delivered A samples of its cell to automakers, and the company said it plans to do the same… in 2022. For the solid-state cell startup, being able t...
17 Feb 2022, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports released its 10 Top Picks of 2022 list, and it has only one electric car. If you thought it belonged to a famous EV maker, sorry to disappoint you: the privilege belongs to Ford and the Mustang Mach-E. To be on this list, the vehic...
17 Feb 2022, 14:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric cars cannot abuse energy consumption. Although they accelerate in extraordinary times, doing that often will kill range because battery packs cannot store that much energy. That said, a convertible electric sports car is almost impossible ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / All 354 people formally complaining about phantom braking in Tesla vehicles to NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) may now celebrate: the agency opened a PE (Preliminary Evaluation) about the problem. According to the PE 22-002 d...
17 Feb 2022, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera released the video of a drag race with very little information apart from the vehicles we can (barely) see in the challenge. There’s a Tesla Model 3, an Audi R8, and two Aptera prototypes: the Aptera Noir alpha vehicle and an unidentif...
16 Feb 2022, 19:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Now that Tesla and Ignacio Socorro are being sued for the deaths of Nicholas Gabriel Garcia, 20, and Jazmin G. Alcala, 19, we were expecting new facts to emerge only at the judgment. That is not the case. Ian Linder Sheldon gave WPLG Local 10 an in...
15 Feb 2022, 23:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When GM revealed that the new Equinox would be an electric crossover costing around $30,000, many people declared that the Bolt EV was dead. Its production never restarted, which they interpreted as something permanent. GM denied that was the case ...
15 Feb 2022, 20:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker announced it is already accepting pre-orders for a vehicle that nobody knows apart from the company’s and Foxconn’s engineers and designers. The closer we could get to the PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution) is that it...
15 Feb 2022, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Ethan Robertson shot the video below for the Wheelsboy YouTube channel, BYD had not yet disclosed it would sell the Yuan Plus in Australia as the Atto 3. This is probably the name it will have in other foreign markets when it reaches them. Reg...
15 Feb 2022, 10:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A crash in Coral Gables involving a Tesla Model 3 killed two people on September 13, 2021. The strange circumstances made NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigate it with a team. Thanks to a lawsuit, we now know the victims’ na...
14 Feb 2022, 15:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The tweet DeLorean Motor Company published was just the beginning of what promises to be one of the most exciting stories in the last few months. We thought it would be just the people from the Texan company finally getting their cars to be sold. W...