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3 Feb 2022, 12:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk used the excuse that Tesla has to focus on volumes for its current cars to say it will not deliver any new models this year. Even if that made sense because of repressed demand, the effect would be limited to the market segments where Tes...
3 Feb 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Great leaps in technology are often so simple that competitors wonder: why didn’t I think of that? This is pretty much what happened with the Quark motor developed by Koenigsegg. Being compact is just part of its appeal. Few have paid attenti...
2 Feb 2022, 18:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ad-hominem is one of the most known and used fallacies worldwide. Instead of attacking the ideas, people target those expressing them. Just check how many are called racists, communists, or fascists just for saying something others do not agree wit...
2 Feb 2022, 10:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The most affordable Land Rover currently for sale is the Evoque. In the UK, it starts at £32,590 ($44,111 at the current exchange rate). The Defender starts at £57,590 ($77,948) if you consider the passenger derivatives. Land Rover char...
1 Feb 2022, 16:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been having some issues with numbers. After claiming that the 53,822 currently with FSD access were “nearly 60,000,” it inflated a more serious number in Australia. Thanks to Joshua Dowling – from Drive.com.au – we...
1 Feb 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people check all the new electric cars for sale, they may think that EVs are a finished product with minor improvements. Koenigsegg is happy to correct them with its latest announcement: an electric motor with the goal of offering the best cha...
1 Feb 2022, 11:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While Elon Musk promises FSD will make turn Tesla vehicles into robotaxis next year, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) is clearly focusing more on the company’s moves. The latest sign that this is happening is Tesla&rsquo...
1 Feb 2022, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electrification is a necessary step to preserve personal mobility. In other words, cars will have to adopt electric motors to be more efficient. What is still up to debate is what should give them energy: battery packs, fuel cells, or even ICEs wor...
31 Jan 2022, 16:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Skoda Enyaq iV has been considered the best MEB product so far. With that warm reception, Skoda is now ready to expand its electric car lineup with the Enyaq Coupe iV. Following a common strategy in the automotive industry, the first derivative...
31 Jan 2022, 13:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At the time of writing, Rich Rebuilds’ video about how broken Tesla Service is already has close to half a million views. People were curious to see the multiple cases in which it failed. Although Rich Benoit is fed up with talking about Tesl...
30 Jan 2022, 23:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are two almost unanimous things about recent BMW moves. People loathe the XM design as much as they love the i4 dynamics. Critics are praising BMW’s first electric sedan. However, the first units may present a severe problem: the lack o...
29 Jan 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the Q4 2021 earnings call, Tesla shares slid. The company lost more than $100 billion in value on a single day, which is equivalent to a BYD – or a Daimler plus a Nissan. Twitter was crammed with attempts to explain why that happened, m...
29 Jan 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Canoo announced VDL Nedcar as its manufacturing supplier on June 17, 2021, there was something fishy about all the changes the company was going through. Many of its founders left the company, and the plans were radically different than the or...
28 Jan 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In Europe, cars have to pass regular inspections to keep running on public roads. TÜV is the largest inspection company in Germany, so much so that it became almost a synonym for these checks. Every year, TÜV releases a report about the i...
28 Jan 2022, 12:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fans of electric cars worldwide will get sad with this news: the BMW i3 will kick the bucket in July. Greg Kable, from Autocar, talked to the company and confirmed that the pioneer EV would have to give room to the third-generation Mini Countryman ...
28 Jan 2022, 08:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As predicted, Nikola could not disclose a lot of information to autoevolution or any other website about the Tre FCEV. It cannot say how big its tanks are at this point, but it was ok to tell us they store the gas at 700 bar (10,153 psi). It also d...
28 Jan 2022, 07:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever we think that Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus cannot surprise us again, a new piece of information emerges. The latest news is that SCG will use the Chevy 2500 HD as the Glickenhaus Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boot Pickup platform, but there’s m...
27 Jan 2022, 21:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape made a strong point with its latest tests. It submitted single-layer samples of its solid-state cells to fast charging at 4C, which means doing so in about 15 minutes. After doing it 400 times, the solid-state battery startup could con...
27 Jan 2022, 16:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We do not blame you if you have never heard about the Cizeta V16T. This supercar was presented in late 1988, which is just a while ago for some car enthusiasts but definitely last century for a majority. Designed by Marcello Gandini, the supercar m...
27 Jan 2022, 13:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After some images of the Volkswagen ID. BUZZ prototype hit social media, a more careful look at them made us wonder if these pictures would not have been taken by the German carmaker itself. A new batch, showing more of the interior, made us confid...