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23 Jan 2022, 17:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This text has no other way to start than reminding a story from when the internet and social media were not as popular as they are today. In 1994, a McLaren F1 owner had to service his car. The technician told him the vehicle surely had something w...
23 Jan 2022, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone with solar panels at home will probably look for battery packs to store the electricity for when they actually need it – at night for most people. What if, instead of a Tesla Powerwall, people bought a Ford F-150 Lightning Pro? Jason F...
23 Jan 2022, 13:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After writing about the latest Aptera videos, some Aptera supporters showed they would follow the steps of Tesla fans. It was enough to mention that the roll cage could trigger negative comments for them to qualify the article as FUD, misleading, a...
22 Jan 2022, 21:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The EQC was Mercedes-Benz’s first model to be exclusively electric. It was heavily criticized for using an ICE platform adapted to EVs, with all the compromises that this brings. This would have been all the negative we ever heard about this ...
21 Jan 2022, 17:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This could look like an excellent example of globalization: Renault will make cars in South Korea with a Volvo platform thanks to a deal with Geely. However, there’s so much more behind this short sentence that sticking with the summary will ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen has already announced when the ID. BUZZ will have its world premiere: on March 9, 2022. Everything points to a U.S. presentation, so the company may be trying to please European customers and journalists with an early taste of the electr...
21 Jan 2022, 09:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We are still waiting for Europe’s numbers regarding the Tesla Model 3 and Model S recalls. Tesla warned European authorities on January 4, but the precise amount of affected units is yet to be determined. That was not the case in Australia, w...
21 Jan 2022, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We often mention Zwickau whenever we talk about an MEB vehicle. Until very recently, it was mandatory: the German plant was the only one producing Volkswagen’s electric cars. Not long ago, it only made combustion-engined cars such as the Golf...
20 Jan 2022, 19:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems the fears IG Metall had regarding the works council at Giga Grünheide came true. According to Reuters, the election of the members of this council will be held on February 28. Of the 12,000 people that will work there, only 2,000 have...
20 Jan 2022, 15:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera revealed in its December 2021 update that it had surpassed 15,000 reservations for its electric trike. The company was also confident it would start delivering them by the end of 2022, but its latest video felt the need to show how much stuf...
20 Jan 2022, 11:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Just about a month after Anthony Solima killed Lee Brasier at the Fremont factory, another Tesla worker died in the company’s premises. This time, it all happened at the powertrain production line. KTVU informs that the still-unidentified per...
19 Jan 2022, 22:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a system called Sentry Mode that monitors activity around the vehicle and sound warnings and informs the car owner about possible threats. Ford promises to take that to the next level with Canopy, a joint venture it created with ADT that ...
19 Jan 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Philippe Chain was the VP for quality at Tesla when the Model S was released. In an article written for MondayNote on July 12, 2020, the former Tesla executive described a dialogue with Elon Musk that demonstrates that Tesla approached car manufact...
19 Jan 2022, 15:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Tavares is making sure Stellantis will meet emission goals and have electric cars to sell in the future. That does not mean he is comfortable with it. In an interview with European newspapers, he made that pretty clear by stating that EVs ar...
19 Jan 2022, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Porsche revealed on January 19 the third body variant of the Taycan family: the Sport Turismo. You don’t even have to look too much to realize it is very similar to the Cross Turismo apart from the plastic cladding on the fenders. The questio...
19 Jan 2022, 07:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 2019, a while after a Uber test vehicle killed Elaine Herzberg, Madeleine Clare Elish conceived the concept of moral crumple zones. Just like crumple zones in a car protect its occupants in a crash, moral crumple zones use humans to protect auto...
18 Jan 2022, 21:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The decline of diesel vehicles has reached a relevant low point in 2021. For the first time since they became mainstream, these cars were beaten in sales by electric cars, which means you could see the bright side and consider it was an important l...
18 Jan 2022, 17:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main discussions around battery swapping is that all automakers would have to come up with a standard so that they could work with any vehicle. Ample has proposed it in March 2021, but a much bigger company is now pursuing the same goal:...
18 Jan 2022, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Multiple traffic safety entities worldwide continuously warn that ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) must be handled with care. They may be brilliant in some situations and a real danger in others. CATARC (China Automotive Technology and Res...
18 Jan 2022, 14:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / China calls electric and electrified vehicles NEVs or new energy vehicles. In 2021, the local market achieved 2.99 million units, representing 14.8% of all new vehicle sales. If things keep the same pace, the country will reach 20% of NEVs in 2022....