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8 Feb 2022, 17:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While we still wonder if the Volvo Embla will have massive castings, the Swedish carmaker already has more news to share, even if not on purpose. Automotive News learned that the company plans to manufacture a new EV in Ridgeville. Volvo’s ne...
8 Feb 2022, 16:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla promised in 2019 it would sell an electric pickup truck by 2021, and nothing has happened so far. Ford followed suit, and its F-150 Lightning should arrive in the next few months to join the Rivian R1T as an option with a battery pack. RAM ha...
8 Feb 2022, 14:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo’s future flagship will not be called XC90 anymore. As we told our readers in November 2021, it will very likely be named Embla. The Swedish carmaker may have given us the best glimpse yet on the new electric SUV when it announced a mass...
8 Feb 2022, 12:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In China, just some NEVs (new energy vehicles) make the cut to be exempt from the vehicle purchase tax. The MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) is the department that decides about that. In its latest list, it revealed that a rev...
7 Feb 2022, 23:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Alfa Romeo Tonale was not supposed to surprise anyone after the concept was revealed in March 2019. Yet, it did. The new compact SUV should premiere on February 8, 2022, but Stellantis allowed a video to leak. Thanks to the guys from Autogaleri...
7 Feb 2022, 19:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In any discussion about autonomous cars, you may have already heard about Level 2, 3, 4, and 5. They refer to the classifications made by SAE J3016, a document that tried to establish what autonomous-driving cars are expected to do. Philip Koopman ...
7 Feb 2022, 16:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When DS presented the E-TENSE concept back in February 2016, we really hoped the company would create a production version, even if in a minimal series. It didn’t, but we got to hear about the concept again after DS presented the E-TENSE Perf...
7 Feb 2022, 11:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We still need to know a lot more about the Amazon delivery vans Rivian has developed. Thankfully, the own company provided more details in its IPO documents, but it took a tweet from Reilly Brennan to discover them. Thanks to him, we now know that ...
6 Feb 2022, 10:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Larry Campbell bought his Model S in September 2016. After his wife tried to pick up their kids at school on October 8, 2021, the car simply stopped working. Tesla then told Campbell he would have to spend HK$171,000 ($21,956 at the current exchang...
5 Feb 2022, 22:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If the Renault ZOE recall was not enough, another French brand has a fire risk related to batteries in electric cars. Stellantis warned European authorities that the Peugeot e-208 and e-2008 might catch fire, but it did not disclose which battery c...
5 Feb 2022, 21:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some automakers discover their EVs have battery pack issues when fires start to happen. Others try to conceal them. Fortunately, some others announce recalls before customers are even aware that they can happen. This is what Renault seems to have d...
5 Feb 2022, 10:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla FSD has already experienced two recalls. Yet, Tesla investors insist that it is a safe system with no crashes, despite the one we reported on November 11, 2021. Perhaps other people never cared to report them, but this is no longer valid. We ...
4 Feb 2022, 20:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The GMA (Gordon Murray Automotive) T.33 was presented on January 27. We already knew it would be an exclusive machine, sold for £1.37 million a pop and limited to 100 cars. That’s equivalent to $1.86 million at the current exchange rate...
4 Feb 2022, 18:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla owners in Canada, Finland, and some other cold-weather markets discovered soon that vehicles from the company could present serious paint problems. So far, they had only been noticed in cars made in Fremont. Giga Shanghai apparently did a bet...
4 Feb 2022, 15:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Koenigsegg has had many factories before getting to the former airfield of the "Johan Röd" squadron. When it was founded, its cars were made in Olofström. In 1997, it moved the plant to a farm in Ängelholm. When that plant ...
4 Feb 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Badge engineering episodes have an interesting characteristic: they tend to happen more between different partnering companies than with multiple brands from the same automaker. In other words, no company would dare to sell the same car with a diff...
4 Feb 2022, 10:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo is pretty serious about selling only electric cars by 2030. To achieve that, the Swedish automaker knows it will need plenty of batteries, and it will do that with Northvolt. Both companies announced today that they will have a factory ready ...
3 Feb 2022, 22:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you happen to visit the Biagi Bros homepage, you’ll see it is a family business that did really well. The logistics company from Napa, California, operates more than 270 tractors, 750 trailers, and has 30 distribution centers in the U.S. T...
3 Feb 2022, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is hard to tell the wheat from the chaff these days. With electric mobility pressing even well-established companies to change, many newcomers think this is their chance to be among the big ones or at least to receive investments from people tha...
3 Feb 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a second recall to deal with this week. After it announced FSD’s illegal capacity to perform rolling stops would end and confessed it was that way by design, the company will now have to admit the lack of a seat belt chime is a defe...