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8 Nov 2021, 17:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Lucid Air has an official EPA range of 520 miles (834 kilometers). It was the longest range of any pure electric car until GAC disclosed the Aion LX Plus, which gets a 1,008 km (626 mi) NEDC range. Now we are in doubt about the champion, but GA...
8 Nov 2021, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit told Alice Visby at the SEMA Show 2021 that the ICE-T project took two years of planning and building. If you are wondering who Visby is, she is the lady you can see in the image above and also a famous pornstar that visited the IC...
7 Nov 2021, 09:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Death and taxes. The adage says these are the inevitable things in life. Elon Musk started a Twitter poll to decide whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, worth around $21 billion. In his words, it has to do with allegations of “unrea...
6 Nov 2021, 09:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time Elon Musk tweeted about issues with FSD, it started with Tesla pulling back FSD 10.3 and ended with the first official recall involving the beta software. Well, Elon Musk tweeted that FSD 10.4 presented “late-breaking issues&rdq...
6 Nov 2021, 08:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If there is one positive aspect involving Tesla’s autonowashing attempts, it is raising awareness about other systems and how people deal with them. Consumer Reports analyzed ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) in all 227 vehicles in it...
5 Nov 2021, 19:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apollo may have started his career as a Greek god, but his life as a car and as a car brand kept the same plot twists that made Mount Olympus a lively place. Born as the Gumpert Apollo, it turned into Apollo Automobil and, more recently, into AFMG ...
5 Nov 2021, 13:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mini is slated to become an electric-only brand. When it first presented the Urbanaut in November 2020, nobody thought it could make it into production. In September, Oliver Heilmer told Autocar that this was possible. Now, the company officially c...
5 Nov 2021, 09:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Peter Rawlinson is still enjoying the laurels Lucid and his team got for delivering the Air, an impressive new electric sedan. In an interview about it with IEEE Spectrum, he took the chance to talk about something people view as a major competitiv...
5 Nov 2021, 01:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BMW’s Q3 2021 earnings call gave us a glimpse of what the German carmaker thinks about Tesla’s “mega castings.” The German automaker’s CEO disputed not only the name Tesla gave them but also the belief that they would ...
4 Nov 2021, 23:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Laura Schwab is no rookie in the automotive business. Before joining Rivian in December 2020 as the VP (vice president) of sales and marketing, she led Aston Martin of America for five years as its first female president. She was so excited about t...
4 Nov 2021, 22:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 1, Tesla announced that it will sell its cars with zero down payment leasings in China. For a company that claims to have a massive demand for its vehicles, the move made no sense at all. Yet, on November 4, Tesla's Chinese website...
4 Nov 2021, 13:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Alpine’s attempt to enter the metaverse, Facebook was yet to change its name to Meta. Hopeful for a broader interpretation of the word, I looked for the help of the Marvel universe, but it was in vain: Alpine’s new ca...
4 Nov 2021, 11:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The SES Battery World 2021 was an event that promised to reveal more details about the company’s hybrid lithium metal cell. It showed the Apollo cell, probably the most impressive battery we have seen so far, but it did not stop there. The co...
3 Nov 2021, 22:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some weeks before Fiat revealed the Pulse, the Brazilian magazine Quatro Rodas said it would get an Abarth version. Prepared by the Italian division, it would give the company a new derivative with the scorpion badge. Apart from variations based on...
3 Nov 2021, 15:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already seen the production version of the VW ID.BUZZ thanks to spy photographers and readers that share pictures of the prototypes with us. However, those paying attention to the live presentation of the VW ID.5 were rewarded with an offic...
3 Nov 2021, 14:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Transporting heavy loads is not something BEV (battery electric vehicles) have proved to deal well with so far. The massive battery pack they have to carry and the long times required to charge them will be a hindrance compared to FCEVs (fuel cell ...
3 Nov 2021, 11:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / November 3 was the day when Volkswagen wanted to make the world premiere of the ID.5 and the ID.5 GTX. It scheduled a live presentation for the car at 2 PM CET. Yet, articles about it started popping up before the live presentation even happened. B...
3 Nov 2021, 09:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker has signed a contract with CATL to ensure that the Ocean SUV will have all the batteries it will need when it enters series production in November 2022. The agreement secures Fisker will have more than 5 GWh in battery packs every year until...
2 Nov 2021, 23:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota decided it could not just watch the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) be submitted for Congress approval with the $4,500 tax incentive for electric cars made by unionized factories. The company created an ad to fight that and started publish...
2 Nov 2021, 22:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The journey to create the world’s first Tesla with a combustion engine has ended. We are yet to see this video on the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel. However, Rich Benoit shared images of ICE-T (internal combustion-engined Tesla) ready and get...