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28 Nov 2021, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 1977, it was not unusual for people to form F1 teams and try to compete with the likes of Ferrari and McLaren. Frank Williams dared to do so and created one of the most victorious F1 teams in history, with 114 victories, nine constructors’...
26 Nov 2021, 23:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jean de la Fontaine may be dead for more than 400 years, but his fables are still spot on when it comes to modern life. Take “The Fox and the Grapes:” it describes precisely how Tesla and Elon Musk reacted to the fact they lost €1....
26 Nov 2021, 19:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla die-hard fans bash anyone speaking anything bad about the EV maker regardless of how true it is. They also accuse critics of never having tested a Tesla, in a poor authority fallacy attempt. They will not be able to say this about Tim Stevens...
26 Nov 2021, 17:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On the evening of November 22, a man took his family to have dinner in Beijing. He left the car charging. When he got back, apparently, the driver heard a strange noise, took his baby out of the vehicle, and saw his BYD Qin Pro catch fire. The ...
26 Nov 2021, 12:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When NIO announced the ET7 would have a 150 kWh battery pack with solid-state cells in 2022, nobody bought that right away. Reactions ranged from cautiously waiting to plain denial that this would be possible. With the information of new investment...
26 Nov 2021, 10:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the board meeting that discussed his future in the Volkswagen Group, Herbert Diess is still the CEO. However, that’s due more to the fact that the discussion was “on a knife-edge” than that he now counts on full support to k...
25 Nov 2021, 22:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / LinkedIn has become a fantastic source of information. Car company executives share important news there, and the lucky ones to notice them get the news first. That happened with our friends at InsideEVs. They discovered Markus Schäfer announc...
25 Nov 2021, 18:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The first thing EV advocates will tell you whenever a fire emerges is that they are rarer events than those involving ICE vehicles. Electric cars are also a minority, so the data has to be carefully checked. Even if EV fires are really more uncommo...
25 Nov 2021, 14:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we spoke about an attempt to create a works council at Giga Grünheide, we had the impression that Tesla would have to deal with IG Metall whether it likes that or not. A new report from Reuters puts that under an entirely new perspective....
25 Nov 2021, 11:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 27, the 2022 German Car of the Year organization disclosed the five winners in its subcategories that would compete for the main prize. As we mentioned then, three among the five were electric, and they had more chances to become the 202...
25 Nov 2021, 10:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most oil companies now prefer to say that they sell energy, not only fossil fuels. That also seems to be the path Shell decided to follow. The difference it has compared to its competitors is that it now joined forces with NIO to create not only ch...
25 Nov 2021, 08:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Edmunds team defines the Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Performance as more comfortable and as having more power and torque than the Model Y Performance. That should be enough for it to make the Tesla eat dust on a drag race, but that’s not what ...
25 Nov 2021, 06:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It’s been a while since we last saw a car premiere in which no technical specification was shared. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. That’s what Kia did with the official presentation of the all-new Niro. It seems the company wants all attention ...
24 Nov 2021, 21:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker proudly announced on Twitter that the Ocean configurator is already online. Eager to learn the options and prices required to make the electric SUV unique, we discovered that it is just like the Ocean: incomplete and still under development....
24 Nov 2021, 19:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen already said that it is interested in keeping old battery packs. The idea is to recycle them when they are not suitable for automotive use anymore. That will make used battery packs a crucial source of raw materials for new ones. Apart f...
24 Nov 2021, 13:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is notoriously averse to unions. It has already been condemned for illegally fighting unionizing efforts, such as in Richard Ortiz’s case. Elon Musk was also ordered to erase a 2018 tweet asking “why pay union dues & give up s...
24 Nov 2021, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford has recently announced it started producing the Mustang Mach-E in China for the Chinese market. We even know that it uses BYD batteries in the largest car market in the world. What we were not aware of is that Ford lost some sales there becaus...
24 Nov 2021, 07:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from saying Tesla has been close to autonomous driving for the last five years, Elon Musk also likes to promote cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin. After calling Binance shady in the way it deals with that cybercash and tagging its CEO, Musk g...
23 Nov 2021, 23:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Those who were anxious to drive a Hummer that will not burn fossil fuels will be able to do so starting in December. According to GM, that’s when deliveries of the GMC Hummer EV Pickup Edition 1 will begin. Duncan Aldred, vice president of...
23 Nov 2021, 23:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already seen the Volkswagen ID.BUZZ as a concept, a self-driving test vehicle, and finally as a disguised car that showed up in the ID.5 premiere. While we wait for the German carmaker to officially reveal it in March 2022, the rendering ar...