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27 Jul 2023, 14:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In February 2021, Edmunds warned customers all Tesla vehicles it tested failed to deliver the EPA ranges they had. Tesla complained about the testing method, so Edmunds did it again. The results were still disappointing. In January, the Korea Fair ...
27 Jul 2023, 09:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are two main arguments against hydrogen use in transportation. The first is that it is mostly generated from fossil fuels, which does not make it helpful against climate change. When it is genuinely green, it is obtained through electrolysis,...
26 Jul 2023, 08:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Honda has recently started to announce it will sell the e:Ny1 in Europe. What reads like a new disease code is actually an electric Chinese SUV the Japanese brand will import to indirectly replace the Honda e. Anyone familiar with how things starte...
25 Jul 2023, 19:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / José Rezende Mahar used to say that automobiles are loved because they gave people the ability to see what was beyond the hills. This metaphor of widening human perspectives that my late friend liked to repeat lacked just one thing to be per...
24 Jul 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Christoph Lindner became a prolific source about new and old Tesla issues. The German lawyer created the website TeslaAnwalt (Tesla Attorney) and got on our radar in March 2022, when the BEV maker was sentenced to buy back a Model 3 because "V...
24 Jul 2023, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk said at the Q2 2023 earnings call that autonomy should be solved this year. He has said that every year since 2016. What made things different this time was that the Tesla CEO said the BEV maker is in early discussions "with a major ...
22 Jul 2023, 18:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the greatest challenges involving battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is reducing the battery pack weight. Ideally, that should be done in a way that also increases energy density. Making them easier to repair and replace is also pressing. Stel...
21 Jul 2023, 21:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I was at law school, I once faced a fierce debate about what role an attorney should have. I defended that lawyers should fight for a fair verdict for their clients, proportional to their actions. Some of my colleagues said a good attorney sho...
21 Jul 2023, 21:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In December 2022, I wrote about an investigation Thatcham Research would make about battery electric vehicle (BEV) repairability. The idea was to make it easier for insurance companies to deal with them without unnecessarily writing off these cars....
20 Jul 2023, 20:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have been writing for a while already about Tesla codes that warn owners their battery packs, and their budgets are toast. Called BMS_u029 and BMS_u018, they are emerging in Model S units that get their MCUs recalled or replaced and also after so...
20 Jul 2023, 12:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In November 2022, I wrote about how difficult it was to believe Tesla had an average profit of $9,570 for every BEV it sold. These numbers emerged from the Q3 2022 earnings report. We have seen three more quarter reports go, and the doubt persists,...
20 Jul 2023, 07:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla reached an impressive milestone in Europe in the first half of 2023: the Model Y became the best seller on that continent. Most of these vehicles came from China while the BEV maker was scaling up production at its German factory. Honda has j...
19 Jul 2023, 10:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Transport & Environment (T&E) does not like plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs). It accused them more than once of greenwashing personal transportation and emitting more than automakers claim they do. That's controversial, considering car ...
18 Jul 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." This quote is attributed to Ronald H. Coase, a British economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1991. Coase corrected that in a letter to T. Dudley Wallace written in 1975. W...
15 Jul 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai has just presented its most powerful car ever at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. It is also the first battery electric vehicle (BEV) to wear the N badge. All these things should make the IONIQ 5 N a remarkable car. Yet, it is also the lates...
14 Jul 2023, 10:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must have heard that Audi is considering buying an electric architecture from a Chinese company to produce battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Automobilwoche revealed that on July 9. Greg Kable brought more details on July 12: the German carmaker...
13 Jul 2023, 22:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Triumph Motor Company was born in 1885 but only started making automobiles in 1923. Before that, it produced bicycles, which may explain its love for light vehicles. Leyland Motors bought it in 1960, and British Leyland eventually killed it in ...
13 Jul 2023, 11:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone who enjoyed watching Top Gear before Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer will remember his epic review of the Ariel Atom. At the time, it started "at under £20,000" and delivered 300 bhp, thanks to its supercharged Honda Civic...
13 Jul 2023, 07:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A new regulation in Europe made me realize something that passed before my eyes in the past but did not receive the attention it deserved. In the US, Class 8 electric trucks can have a higher maximum gross weight than those powered by internal comb...
12 Jul 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reaching more people can be a blessing or a curse. Ask anyone who suddenly became famous, and they will tell you more about that. That can also be seen in the automotive world. When a company achieves higher sales numbers, its issues are amplified ...