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11 Jan 2022, 20:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you read our previous article about heating issues Tesla owners are facing in cold-weather regions, you know the complaints started around December 30. In a discussion on a Facebook group, a Tesla owner shared a discussion about that with the co...
11 Jan 2022, 13:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 29, 2021, AirShaper and A2MAC1 helped us demonstrate that the Ioniq 5 desperately needs a rear wiper. Hyundai said airflow alone would keep it clean, but that is not what the aerodynamic studies have shown. A2MAC1 bought an Ioniq 5 and...
11 Jan 2022, 11:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As an Afro-American, Valerie Capers Workman must have been at odds defending Tesla against Owen Diaz. Courts ruled that the former contract worker was a racism victim and that Tesla should pay him $136.9 million for emotional distress and punitive ...
11 Jan 2022, 01:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Check any Lucid tweet, and you will see a big bunch of Tesla followers asking the company how many vehicles it produced and sold in 2021. If Rivian has the same issue, it has solved it by disclosing it made 1,015 EVs and delivered 920 of these vehi...
10 Jan 2022, 23:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In moderate climates, heating is just a matter of comfort. In all other places where temperatures go well below 0ºC (32ºF), that feature means life or death. Many Tesla owners are complaining about the lack of heating with Model Y and Mod...
10 Jan 2022, 15:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Chery and Great Wall are significant players in the Chinese market that are currently trying their luck elsewhere. Two products show that they are just not going for an original approach toward that. Just check the Jetour T-X (from Chery) and the H...
10 Jan 2022, 11:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On January 7, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would raise prices for FSD (Full Self-Driving) from the current $10,000 to $12,000. That will happen only in the U.S. on January 17. The Tesla CEO probably had no worse time to disclose that. On January ...
7 Jan 2022, 18:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pete Buttigieg has a lot on his plate. Being the U.S. Secretary of Transportation means he has a say on the Build Back Better plan and also the mission to recover NHTSA’s undermined credibility. In an interview with The Verge, Buttigieg avoid...
7 Jan 2022, 15:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Many EV enthusiasts are eagerly waiting for solid-state batteries. Volkswagen and Toyota are expected to adopt them by the middle of this decade. However, the Japanese carmaker will do that in “a little bit unintuitive” way in the words...
7 Jan 2022, 11:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At least 24,000 pre-order holders and millions of fans worldwide must be asking: where’s Microlino? The bubble car made headlines when it was revealed and its production was expected to begin in 2021. Micro-Mobility informed us why that did n...
7 Jan 2022, 06:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 28, 2021, we were able to tell our reader how Tesla was selling its 2021 Model 3 Long Range units with a 2017 battery pack, thanks to Patrick Murphy. This Tesla customer shared with us his experience, and it was a problematic one. Credi...
6 Jan 2022, 22:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from the GMA T.50, Gordon Murray once said that his company would probably be able to make only another car without any sort of electrification. We now know that this vehicle will be called T.33 and that it will make its premiere on January 2...
6 Jan 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hansjörg Eberhard von Gemmingen bought his used Model S P85+ in 2014 with 30,000 kilometers (18,641 miles) on the clock. He drives so much that this mileage soon increased by a lot. In November 2019, he reached 1 million km (621,371 mi). It to...
6 Jan 2022, 16:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Herbert Diess refers to the VW Bus as “the legend.” And he considers the ID. BUZZ as its rightful successor. This is what his latest tweet, in English, suggested with a single and revealing sentence, accompanied by the video of the most...
6 Jan 2022, 14:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Being a relatively small company means that all issues you have in one of your only two factories will affect most of your products. It gets worse if they relate to design. That’s what we have seen with the Model 3 and Model S recalls from Te...
6 Jan 2022, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford is expanding the production numbers for the F-150 Lightning as much as it can. The unexpected demand for the electric pickup truck made the automaker double the initial target from 40,000 to 80,000 units and, more recently, to 150,000 EVs. We ...
6 Jan 2022, 00:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 24, we pointed out a discrepancy between what Consumer Reports wrote about Tesla’s driver monitoring camera and what Tesla said on its website. While the consumer organization said the Model S had that system, Tesla informed (and ...
5 Jan 2022, 22:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most people following news about the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX focused on its appearance. Some even believe that the front three-pointed star badge is more to the left than it should be. None of that really matters to what this EV stands for: energ...
4 Jan 2022, 22:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Even die-hard Tesla fans are tired of being told that their cars will become appreciating assets in one or two years. The ones with access to FSD Beta know that it is far from the development stage Elon Musk promises almost every week. Those really...
4 Jan 2022, 14:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo Cars announced that it would have a new CEO starting on March 21, 2022. Håkan Samuelsson will be succeeded on that day by Jim Rowan, who was once the CEO of Dyson Group. Rowan was selected to replace Samuelsson in a “thorough and ...