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2 Nov 2021, 19:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA sent Tesla a message after asking why a software update was not treated as a recall if it dealt with safety matters. Before the safety agency asked Tesla about that again, the company decided to issue a voluntary recall related to FSD Beta, a...
2 Nov 2021, 13:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In July, we told our readers that Aptera was looking for a new space for its factory. The Sorrento Valley facility proved to be insufficient to the company’s needs. It took a while for Chris Anthony to reveal that Apteras will be built in Car...
2 Nov 2021, 09:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape continues its slow but constant progress with its solid-state cell platform. After disclosing some test results and getting critics to doubt them, the company asked Mobile Power Solutions to test its single-layer cells. The results are...
1 Nov 2021, 18:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla says that sharing its Supercharger network has always been a company’s ambition. Sure: this is why it waited almost ten years to start doing so, not because the U.S. government promised incentives only to charging networks that are not ...
1 Nov 2021, 17:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Alfasuds are famous for being fun to drive and for self-destructing, thanks to rust issues. It was not their fault: Alfa Romeo just wanted to pump as many as possible, making terrible decisions in the process. The fun part led Sean Fosberry to buy ...
1 Nov 2021, 16:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Ford Maverick generated plenty of headlines and reservations in the U.S. for being practical, affordable, and having steelies. It seemed to prove American customers were eager to buy a straight-to-the-point vehicle that they could also use to w...
1 Nov 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla was said to ask FSD Beta testers to sign NDA (non-disclosure agreements) to post only videos that were not detrimental to it. When the story emerged, the company said it would not do that anymore. The videos have been presenting situations th...
1 Nov 2021, 07:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Joe Biden has a level of Congress support few other presidents could brag about: both the Senate and the House of Representatives have a Democrat majority. That does not mean that approving the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) will be easy: intern...
31 Oct 2021, 10:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Peter Rawlinson told the first clients to receive a Lucid Air that the company would not “have achieved a damn thing” until they had their cars. On October 30, the automaker that this CEO leads managed to say it finally did so. That hap...
31 Oct 2021, 08:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jason Hughes is also known as the Tesla Hacker. No one can accuse him of being a short seller or a FUDster, as any critic of the company’s actions is frequently classified. Despite that, he’ll probably hear that after publicly confronti...
30 Oct 2021, 20:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must have already heard multiple times that EVs are cheaper to keep than ICE cars. Not having oil changes, spark plugs, belts, and other wear components make that seem an obvious conclusion. Thankfully, a company called We Predict created the D...
30 Oct 2021, 10:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Purists are going through hard times. After Porsche gave the 911 a water-cooled engine, things only got worse for them. They have seen classic cars converted to EVs, combustion engines training their swan songs, and Mercedes-AMG turning the SL into...
30 Oct 2021, 08:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford issued a statement celebrating the Mustang Mach-E’s good results with Euro NCAP and Green NCAP. In both cases, the electric SUV received five stars. However, in Green NCAP’s case, Ford seems to have missed something important: the ...
29 Oct 2021, 19:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk accused Ford and UAW of writing the new U.S. EV tax credit proposal, even if it theoretically makes Tesla eligible again. Scott Keogh said the incentive for EVs made by unionized factories is “fundamentally wrong.” None of tha...
29 Oct 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo announced it would make an IPO after Rivian, and it did that before the American competitor. The initial public offering of its shares at Nasdaq Stockholm helped it raise SEK 20 billion, the equivalent to $2.3 billion. That’s less than ...
29 Oct 2021, 09:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SK Innovation is known both for its legal dispute with LGES (LG Energy Solution) and for never having had any fire issues that we are aware of. The Korean supplier will now also be known as the company that will mass-produce the solid-state batteri...
29 Oct 2021, 06:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota has finally revealed more information and official pictures of its new electric SUV. The bZ4X will be put for sale by mid-2022, but it already presented elements that will make fans scratch their heads. The most important one is the One Grip...
28 Oct 2021, 23:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Autonomous driving tech companies are pretty fed up with Tesla’s attitude. Testing with regular customers and promising them autonomy is something they seem to have taken for way too much time before being more vocal about it. Waymo was not a...
28 Oct 2021, 22:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk tweeted that “the word recall needs to be recalled” on January 14, 2014. Although he erased it years ago, the internet never forgets. Tesla may be trying to recall the word recall by sending its customers a message about one w...
28 Oct 2021, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone covering or reading about the Chinese EV industry has already stumbled upon the name Li Auto, aka Li Xiang (the name of its founder). This company became the leader in recommendations from its customers according to a recent survey. It is al...