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21 Oct 2021, 07:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At Tesla’s Q3 2021 earnings call, top executives said it was “a great thing” that NHTSA had Missy Cummings check how safe Autopilot and FSD really are. On Twitter, Elon Musk said she was biased against Tesla, and his followers sta...
20 Oct 2021, 21:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fiat may be owing new products to its fans in Europe for quite a while. That’s not the case in Latin America, where the Italian brand has been a sales leader with a reputation for robust vehicles since it launched the Palio back in the 1990s....
20 Oct 2021, 13:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Just a few hours after we published that the partnership between INEOS and Hyundai could be a match made in heaven for fuel cells, Boris Johnson and Bill Gates decided to have a say in promoting clean energy as well. They have announced a partnersh...
20 Oct 2021, 10:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla’s current market cap is mainly credited to its autonomous driving tech promises. Elon Musk himself said that they would turn Tesla cars into “appreciating assets” instead of goods that devaluate, as most vehicles are. Althou...
20 Oct 2021, 09:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 22, 2020, INEOS Automotive and Hyundai announced they had signed a partnership to “explore together new opportunities in the hydrogen economy.” They also said the Grenadier would test Hyundai’s fuel cells. On October 1...
19 Oct 2021, 14:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You can say that the EV strategy of a manufacturer is at full steam when the main executive in that company tells his LinkedIn followers they should not buy their ICE cars. Instead, they should buy the electric vehicles they make, which could save ...
19 Oct 2021, 12:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla announced it would use mega castings to replace multiple stamped parts welded together once and for all, the automotive industry decided to watch. If the American automaker could do that, other companies would follow suit. Volkswagen and...
19 Oct 2021, 11:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford revealed on October 18 that it has started manufacturing the Mustang Mach-E in China. Produced at Changan Ford’s manufacturing plant in Chongqing, the electric crossover brings a major difference compared to the one made in Mexico: it us...
19 Oct 2021, 08:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The SEMA Show 2021 will open its gates on November 2, 2021. That means that ICE-T, or Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla, will have to be fully ready by then. That leaves Rich Benoit and the guys from the Electrified Garage a little less than two we...
19 Oct 2021, 06:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / For those who were worried about the future of the Nissan Leaf, the brand’s Europe boss said there’s nothing to worry about. Guillaume Cartier told British magazines that the compact electric hatchback would be replaced by a compact SUV...
18 Oct 2021, 12:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO has announced the NIO Day 2021 will happen on December 18. Held in Suzhou, the event promises to reveal exciting news about the Chinese luxury company, especially for those that wanted to have a NIO and could not afford it so far. All rumors ab...
18 Oct 2021, 11:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been anticipating Foxtron’s (aka Hon Hai) new products for quite a while. On September 15, we published leaked images of one of these cars. On October 13, we talked about all three of them and how Model C referred to a C-segment SUV. ...
18 Oct 2021, 09:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Honda presented the first images of the eleventh-generation Honda Civic in its hatchback version back in June 2021. The car is made in the U.S. and went on sale on September 20. Inspired by what Subaru does with the Impreza hatchback by jacking it ...
18 Oct 2021, 08:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pete Gruber became a specialist in bringing Tesla Roadsters back to life with his company. That was the reason Gruber Motor Company had so many units in a building that caught fire on October 16, 2021. According to a video released by the company, ...
18 Oct 2021, 07:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems that the battery issues LGES (LG Energy Solution) had with Hyundai and GM did not demote any other carmakers to do business with the Korean supplier. On October 18, Stellantis announced it would make a joint venture with LGES to produce up...
17 Oct 2021, 05:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I’ve lived most of my life in a country that loves to refer to itself as “the country of the future.” It has great potential to be way more than it is, but it never gets there. One of this country’s ambitions was to have its...
16 Oct 2021, 10:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Paris has recently adopted a speed limit of 30 kph (19 mph) for all of its streets. The European Union also approved a resolution on October 6 to impose the same limitations on residential areas and places with a high concentration of pedestrians a...
15 Oct 2021, 13:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla recently increased the prices for the Model 3 and Model Y in the U.S. by up to $2,000. That made the lowest prices listed on the website be those for the Cybertruck: $39,990 against $41,990 for the most affordable Model 3. That led to some cl...
15 Oct 2021, 10:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main pieces of criticism Tesla Autopilot received over the years is that it allegedly induces an overreliance on a system that is still in the beta phase of development. Even if it were fully developed, it would still not make the car fu...
14 Oct 2021, 23:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric cars sound like the perfect opportunity for any company to become a multi-billion dollar business. The problem is that most startups fail to present a credible case. Most stick to CGI and bold claims that never materialize. Independent Ele...