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22 Dec 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As we reported on December 10, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) raised the tone in its discussions with Tesla about video games that can be played while driving. Apparently, that did not help much, and things escalated: the sa...
22 Dec 2021, 12:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we published cutaways revealed by Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus on December 7, we knew that the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boot Zero-Emission would present a radical and straight-to-the-point design. Anyway, we have to confess that the final car manage...
22 Dec 2021, 10:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After delivering an electric truck before Tesla managed to start producing the Semi, Nikola may have reached another crucial point in its history: getting rid of fraud accusations with the U.S. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). The only iss...
22 Dec 2021, 08:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Being part of Stellantis, Alfa Romeo now has access to all its platforms, such as the eCMP. The electric architecture already underpins the Peugeot e-208, e-2008, Opel Corsa-e, Mokka-e, DS3 Crossback E-Tense, and Citroën ë-C4. The Alfa Ro...
21 Dec 2021, 20:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first heard about the Chinese brand WM (Weltmeister), I was impressed by the design of its cars and amused by the company’s name. Calling yourself "master of the world" is presumptuous even in a foreign language. Worse still,...
21 Dec 2021, 17:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sometimes, it is not enough to warn people that trusting a technology that is not yet mature enough, as if it was already finished, is a risky deal. Multiple safety and autonomous driving tech specialists have been trying to warn customers and auth...
21 Dec 2021, 15:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Waymo already disclosed that the vehicle that struck a pedestrian in San Francisco on December 15 was not being driven autonomously. However, we wanted to clarify other aspects of the crash. While it is still investigating what happened, Waymo answ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The most common excuse you hear from people who accept using Tesla’s beta software is that they are helping the company perform tests. This would allow Tesla to offer 1 million robotaxis in 2020. Already at the end of 2021 and with no robotax...
21 Dec 2021, 11:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s a list of electric vehicles with the capability not only to draw energy from the grid but also to give it back. Nissan Leaf, Renault ZOE, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Lucid Air, and BYD Dolphin are the ones we know. Ford will soon add the F-150 L...
21 Dec 2021, 01:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems only Joe Biden, his supporters, and the few carmakers benefited by the Build Back Better Act still want it approved. The Democrat senator Joe Manchin declared he could not support the bill as it is, which could mean that it will not be app...
20 Dec 2021, 21:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The U.S. Government seems to be keen on electric vehicles from way before GM built the EV1. Somewhere between 1982 and 1987, it paid $240,000 to have a Dodge B300 prototype powered solely by gel cell batteries. This one-off vehicle is now on Craigl...
20 Dec 2021, 16:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen is not alone as a QuantumScape partner. In fact, that has not been the case since September 2021, but we confess we missed that one. The solid-state battery’s new partnership is with “an established global luxury automotive o...
20 Dec 2021, 11:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Would you ever consider buying a 2021 car that had its engine replaced by a used 2017 mill? We can almost hear the “no” loud and in unison from the crowds, but apply that to electric cars. Tesla thinks it will get a “yes” be...
19 Dec 2021, 00:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Great expectations surrounded the NIO Day 2021. Apart from the NIO ET5 – a sure presence – we also expected to see the ES7 and NIO’s affordable brand. Only the ET5 showed up, but there was plenty about it to make NIO Day 2021 wort...
17 Dec 2021, 23:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 13, The Korea Times anticipated that the Hyundai Group would replace its overseas-based executives with local executives. It would just be a management shift if we were not talking about Peter Schreyer and Albert Biermann, two crucial t...
17 Dec 2021, 13:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In May, AAA released a survey that revealed most Americans feel less safe if self-driving vehicles are around. In its 2020 Mobility Study, Continental found out that 60% to 79% of respondents all over the world prefer to drive themselves. This show...
17 Dec 2021, 10:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / OTA (over-the-air) updates are no big deal for Tesla owners. They get one every once in a while. For Volkswagen, it is still such an event that Herbert Diess had to take an ID.5 to learn the main changes the New Software Generation IDS 3.0 offers. ...
16 Dec 2021, 22:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Approaching the end of the day, we felt that the information Associated Press obtained about Rivian’s Project Tera might not be confirmed. However, governor Brian P. Kemp did not let that happen. Georgia officially confirmed it would be Rivia...
16 Dec 2021, 21:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We told you back on July 20 Lightyear’s second car would arrive by 2024. A new press release from the company disclosed more info about that car: it will be called Lightyear Two, will start at €30,000 ($33,916 at the current exchange rat...
16 Dec 2021, 19:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla was quick to contact French authorities to claim that the Model 3 that hurt 20 people in Paris had no technical failures. Naturally, the taxi driver who would consequently take the blame for what happened said through his lawyer that Tesla is...