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14 Oct 2021, 23:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we last talked about the Electric Mustang, its name was not chosen yet. It was in June 2019, and not even the company that builds it had disclosed its full name. Charge Cars had just started the project, but most of it was defined. It certainl...
14 Oct 2021, 14:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Renault announced in July that it would invest in hydrogen and fuel cells with HYVIA. The focus of this joint venture with Plug Power was on commercial vehicles, where hydrogen makes more sense than current batteries. On October 14, HYVIA finally p...
14 Oct 2021, 10:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the major selling points for Tesla is its Supercharging network. The ability to make road trips and easily charge these EVs anywhere earned the company multiple customers. However, things can get ugly on holidays, with long lines forming in ...
14 Oct 2021, 08:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most car companies that get letters from NHTSA tend to be agreeable and collaborative towards the agency’s requests. Tesla showed that’s not how it intends to behave with a simple tweet. Hours after news about NHTSA’s questions re...
13 Oct 2021, 21:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Despite being one of the most committed companies to the electric vehicles shift nowadays, Volkswagen would be feeling the heat from the competition with Chinese companies and Tesla. According to Reuters, Herbert Diess said the company could lose 3...
13 Oct 2021, 18:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main arguments in favor of solid-state batteries is that they would be way safer than the current ternary cells. Solid Power wanted to prove that with its batteries and put them to third-party testing. After being perforated with a nail,...
13 Oct 2021, 13:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) started investigating Tesla vehicles on Autopilot for crashing against emergency vehicles on August 13. The company quickly released an OTA (over-the-air) update that it claimed would solve the...
13 Oct 2021, 10:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla’s deployment of the FSD 10.2 to new beta testers started on October 11. That raised multiple complaints from people that paid up to $10,000 for the software and did not get it due to lower scores than drivers that pay only for the $199 ...
13 Oct 2021, 09:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Foxconn (officially known as Hon Hai) will host a major event on October 18. It’s the HHTD21 (Hon Hai Technology Day). In last year’s edition, it showed the MIH Open Platform, an open-source electric vehicle architecture. In 2021, it wi...
12 Oct 2021, 23:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Maybach used to be more than Mercedes-Benz’s ultra-luxury division. Until 1960, it made opulent cars and engines. After Daimler acquired it, it went into oblivion until 2002, when Daimler tried to challenge Rolls-Royce and Bentley until Mayba...
12 Oct 2021, 21:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been following all the news about Lancia’s new chance to endure with careful interest. Not for what it did in the last 20 or 10 years, but rather for when it was known as an innovative brand. We’re still not convinced that the Y...
12 Oct 2021, 19:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When you have already written or read a lot about a vehicle, you expect new things about it to bring more information than what you had so far. Checking how the BYD Dolphin drive was what first attracted us to check the Fully Charged video about th...
12 Oct 2021, 16:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although it is almost impossible to conceive a high-volume SUV without four doors nowadays, the story changes when you think about off-roaders. The most famous ones present only two doors – three if you count the tailgate as one. Think about ...
12 Oct 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM said it would pursue compensation from LGES (LG Energy Solution) due to the Chevy Bolt EV battery pack recall it had to perform: it was going to spend $1.8 billion repairing 110,324 Bolt EV and EUV units with 2017 to 2022 model years included. A...
12 Oct 2021, 08:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We often hear about massive solar farms to produce electricity in the middle of deserts. However, most people must wonder what would happen if all houses featured solar panels on their rooftops to generate electricity. So has the Imperial College L...
11 Oct 2021, 18:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people complain about paint issues, panel gaps, or other assembly issues in a Tesla, fans present the weirdest excuses for that. The most used is the “tu quoque” fallacy, implying other automakers have the same issues. One once sai...
11 Oct 2021, 12:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As popular as the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is in China, it probably wants to sell as much as the Sylphy. In 2020, Nissan’s sedan was the best-selling vehicle in the Chinese market, with 542,725 units sold, according to Focus2Move. If the Chin...
11 Oct 2021, 08:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen had an emergency meeting on October 1, 2021, to discuss Tesla’s Giga Grünheide, apparently afraid that Tesla is much more efficient at building cars. On October 9, Tesla held the Giga Fest to present its German factory. No mem...
10 Oct 2021, 05:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Tesla was convicted for not preventing racism at its Fremont plant, something unusual happened. Although the company does not talk to the press, it published a rare blog post about the lawsuit. In it, Valerie Capers Workman gave Tesla workers...
9 Oct 2021, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I always wanted to have an electric car. I thought I was going to drive an FCEV since the 1990s, but the hydrogen fueling infrastructure and FCEV products did not develop as they should. When I finally bought a car that runs on electricity, it had ...