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28 Dec 2021, 22:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 15, 2021, Abarth revealed that it had created an extraordinary car. Using an Alfa Romeo 4C as its base, the Italian brand came up with a new generation of the Abarth 1000 SP (Sports Prototype), a car built in 1966 that won many competitions....
28 Dec 2021, 19:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 20, autoevolution broke the news about Tesla selling used 2021 Model 3 Long Range units with 2017 battery packs. Although the evidence was on Tesla’s own websites (it still is), we thought the story would die with no answers, as i...
28 Dec 2021, 11:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What would be your ambitions after creating a successful scooter company and leaving it? For Yinan Li, founder of NIU, the answer is founding a car company. That’s precisely what the Chinese entrepreneur announced with NIUTRON, an EV startup ...
28 Dec 2021, 09:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have recently told you about a Finnish Tesla owner that exploded his car with 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of dynamite. This protest was due to receiving a €20,000 ($22,635 at the current exchange rate) bill for replacing the battery pack in hi...
27 Dec 2021, 18:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The guys at DARTZ like to say they are carrozzieri. In other words, they have never developed a car from the ground up. Instead, they choose a vehicle as a base and create their own versions full of opulence and luxury. If carmakers are going elect...
27 Dec 2021, 15:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Michael Lohscheller was Opel’s CEO until July 27, when he was announced as the new CEO for VinFast. At the time, the company said he was still moving to Vietnam to start his work there. Less than five months later, he is back in Europe and aw...
27 Dec 2021, 13:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The rendering artist Theottle is more than a talented guy and a friend of autoevolution: he also has perfect timing or a lot of luck. A few days after he created the convertible version of the Maserati MC20, the trident brand released official imag...
27 Dec 2021, 11:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 23, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) announced that Tesla would stop allowing people to play video games while cars are in motion. Yet, its PE (preliminary evaluation) would still be active. White hat hacker GreenT...
27 Dec 2021, 10:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You can tell the same story in multiple ways. Western media reported that Daimler restructured its stake in Denza, a joint venture with BYD. The Chinese websites went straight to the point: Daimler practically left the company, retaining only 10% o...
26 Dec 2021, 12:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mahmood Hikmet started his latest video expressing something automotive journalists covering electric cars also feel. Most of us are fed up with talking about Tesla. Anything the company or its CEO does automatically generates headlines, and, frank...
26 Dec 2021, 11:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It was already clear that Hyundai was fully committed to electric cars. The IONIQ 5 is considered a brilliant piece of engineering, and there are more IONIQ models to join the family: a larger SUV (IONIQ 7) and a sedan (IONIQ 6). However, Automotiv...
25 Dec 2021, 20:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD is doing really well in its home market. If that does not mean that it is time to expand abroad more aggressively, the two prototypes recently photographed in China may be what it takes. We’re talking about a convertible and a station wag...
25 Dec 2021, 17:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It’s been a while that this feeling of unease is growing on me with most new cars. However, things reached a peak when BMW released a teaser of what we now know as the XM. That image reminded me of an Angry Birds character. Weirdly, it looked...
24 Dec 2021, 15:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In its Happy Holidays video message, Alfa Romeo paid tribute to its past and made bold promises for its future. The brand’s CEO, Jean-Philippe Imparato, shared the video on Twitter and said that “very exciting things” are coming i...
24 Dec 2021, 12:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports’s article about driver monitoring revealed that Tesla’s cabin camera makes barely any difference to avoid distracted driving. The only thing the consumer organization noticed was that people dealing with cell phones had...
24 Dec 2021, 10:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the biggest blows from NIO Day 2021 was that the Chinese carmaker did not announce its affordable brand. In William Li’s words, it will be to NIO what Toyota is to Lexus. Perhaps the announcement didn’t happen because there are s...
23 Dec 2021, 23:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In our last text about Tesla’s “Passenger Play,” we said it was surprising that the company did not solve the issue with a simple OTA (over-the-air) update. It allowed NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) to open...
23 Dec 2021, 21:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Subaru was laconic talking about its 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon attractions. It spent just two or three lines for each car, and that was it. No mention to the Solterra – Subaru’s badge-engineered version of the Toyota bZ4X – but a new ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was perhaps a relief when Tesla finally activated the camera above the internal rear-view mirror to monitor drivers. It was supposedly a way to avoid distracted driving and abuse of Autopilot and FSD. Unfortunately, it seems it was just a mar...
22 Dec 2021, 19:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems Tesla has finally made up its mind on its German factory and will not submit any other changes. This is the primary reason for all the necessary documents for approval to have been presented to German authorities. Although that is good new...