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23 Nov 2021, 19:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It was thanks to Wendelin Wiedeking that Porsche was able to keep selling the 911 for new generations of fans. Ironically, that has to do with his insistence on bringing the Cayenne to life. While the 911 entertained purists, the Cayenne helped to ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Caveat emptor is a Latin expression that means “let the buyer beware.” In English, it became a proverb that states the buyers are ultimately responsible for making sure that what they are buying is in good condition. Ralph Nader used it...
23 Nov 2021, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Can an automaker be among the most valuable ones without having a global presence? In times like these, in which Lucid is worth more than Ford, and Rivian more than GM, that is not so absurd. However, BYD reached a significant milestone: its market...
23 Nov 2021, 07:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have no idea if “The Clash” wrote “Should I Stay or Should I Go” due to the band’s name, but the fact is that Herbert Diess must be asking himself precisely that hours before the Volkswagen group board of directors ...
22 Nov 2021, 15:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volkswagen said it would conceive an electric car to be as efficient as possible, it later named it Project Trinity. It would be a flat electric car, meaning it would focus on low aerodynamic drag. It is Volkswagen’s version of Audi&rsqu...
22 Nov 2021, 11:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 19, Tesla owners started noticing that their Tesla mobile phone app was not working. They were getting "500 server error" all over the world. When a customer in South Korea complained about it on Twitter, Elon Musk said he wou...
22 Nov 2021, 07:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already told you a bit about the all-new Kia Niro. It is being developed under the SG2 codename and spy pictures taken in Germany showed it will adopt a new lighting signature, inspired by the 2019 HabaNiro Concept. Kia has just confirmed a...
18 Nov 2021, 07:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 4, 2021, a jury in San Francisco decided that Tesla was wrong in the way it dealt with racist abuses against Owen Diaz. The court decided the contract worker would receive $6.9 million due to emotional distress and $130 million in puniti...
17 Nov 2021, 16:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ferdinand Porsche may have created hybrid cars with the Lohner-Porsche Mixed Hybrid in 1900, but Toyota made them popular with the Prius 97 years later. Under Carlos Ghosn’s helm, Nissan bet on a different solution in 2010: BEVs, with the Lea...
17 Nov 2021, 13:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Car tests are a fantastic opportunity for automotive journalists to know a vehicle better and also to discover things automakers decide to omit. The latest example came from Edmunds. When it compared a Mustang Mach-E GT Performance with a Tesla Mod...
17 Nov 2021, 10:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nobody can say that Alpha Motors is a predictable company. After revealing six new car designs, using baristas to present a pickup truck mockup at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and refusing to say who is in charge of the startup, it released a vi...
17 Nov 2021, 07:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It all began with a CNN Business article. In an interview about world hunger, David Beasley said that ultra-wealthy people could solve the problem with a fraction of their net worth. Using the richest man on Earth as an example, the U.N. WFP (World...
17 Nov 2021, 05:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nissan first presented the Ariya on July 15, 2020. It took the company more than one year for the electric SUV to be available for pre-orders in the U.S., but there’s more: deliveries will take another year to start. And the most affordable o...
16 Nov 2021, 23:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape has recently revealed third-party tests with its single-layer lithium metal solid-state cells that confirmed and even excelled the results it achieved on its own evaluation. In February 2021, the company said it successfully tested fou...
16 Nov 2021, 19:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai has waited until the Ioniq 5 was about to hit the American market to announce its “integrated clean energy ecosystem.” Called Hyundai Home, the idea is to supply solar panels, stationary batteries, home chargers, and electric ca...
16 Nov 2021, 15:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Joe Biden had two major projects for his administration: the H.R. 3684 - Invest in America Act and the H.R. 5376 - Build Back Better Act. We say "had" because the first became law after Biden signed it on November 15. Remember to call it ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from bashing U.S. politicians, interacting with selected fans, and promising autonomous driving on Twitter, Elon Musk does not do much else in social media. Yet, some Tesla customers still think they can ask for his help there. That was the c...
16 Nov 2021, 10:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Very few electric cars were ever selected as the Car of the Year by Motor Trend. The first was the Tesla Model S in 2013, followed by the Chevy Bolt EV in 2017. We can’t say that this is because there are few EVs around. In the 2022 edition, ...
15 Nov 2021, 07:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit had loads of fun when Fox 5 reported the SEMA Show focused on electric cars while presenting his ICE-T (Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla). In his newest video, he confessed he also felt a little guilty about the situation. If his car s...
14 Nov 2021, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Theottle conceived a unibody pickup truck based on the Dacia Jogger, we said it could be a successful product in this expanding market segment. Ford wants a slice of it with the Maverick, but it is not alone. VW also studied the Tarok, and GM ...