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4 Oct 2021, 12:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The second generation of the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer is codenamed U06. The German automaker is about to present it. Still, a leaked image first posted by the Instagram user wilcoblok shows it did not escape the polarizing design strategy of maki...
4 Oct 2021, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla sued Rivian in July 2020, saying its rival was poaching employees with access to trade secrets. In August 2020, Rivian filed a motion asking the lawsuit to be dismissed alleging the accusations were unsubstantiated and false. In March 2021, t...
4 Oct 2021, 09:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Rich Benoit said that he would recycle a Model S with a V8, he raised as much praise as bashing. Tesla fans said “there's no reason to change what’s perfect,” but the truth is that the car was perfectly ruined before get...
3 Oct 2021, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After reporting a Tesla fire in the back of a Service Center in Marietta, Georgia, all sorts of excuses emerged. First, Tesla fans said the fire was not unusual: a car in need of repair could catch fire. Then they said it was a fire drill, even at ...
2 Oct 2021, 09:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have told you that the two concepts presented by Volkswagen at the IAA Mobility 2021 refer to two different propositions for the MEB Lite (or Entry) platform. While the Volkswagen ID. LIFE should give birth to the ID.1, the Cupra UrbanRebel w...
1 Oct 2021, 18:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If companies such as QuantumScape and Solid Power manage to deliver all they promise about their solid-state lithium-metal platforms for batteries, we’ll start to see incredible new cells. More than that, the focus will shift: instead of worr...
1 Oct 2021, 11:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the rumors that Foxconn would buy the Lordstown Motors plant in the Ohio city with the same name, the Taiwanese company confirmed it would do so. Hon Hai (Foxconn’s official name) will pay $230 million for most of the facility. In a sho...
1 Oct 2021, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In June 2020 – when Trevor Milton was still its CEO – Nikola announced it had bought five atmospheric electrolyzers from Nel ASA to generate 40 tons of hydrogen per day. The company would build hydrogen fueling stations with them using ...
1 Oct 2021, 09:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What really makes a vehicle autonomous is not having to count on human supervision to execute its tasks, regardless of the area in which it can do that. This is something Mahmood Hikmet already explained in a series of videos about autonomous drivi...
30 Sep 2021, 19:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk said that autonomous driving was “basically a solved problem” in 2016. At Tesla Autonomy Day on April 22, 2019, he talked about Teslas being “appreciating assets” and that the cars produced by then had all the hard...
30 Sep 2021, 16:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Things are not going well for Lordstown Motors. After its very first prototype caught fire ten minutes after starting its very first test on public roads, Hindenburg Research denounced that the company’s CEO was inflating pre-order numbers. S...
30 Sep 2021, 15:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Despite all the evidence against that – and pure logic – some people still believe Tesla will make its cars based on the 4280 cells without these batteries. They are not ready for production yet and won’t be until at least April 2...
30 Sep 2021, 10:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After announcing its plans for Norway, NIO finally started selling the ES8 in that country. The first electric car with swappable batteries for Norwegian customers starts at NOK609,000 ($69,093 at the current exchange rate), and it can become even ...
30 Sep 2021, 08:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Genesis finally released all the specifications for the GV60, its first electric vehicle. Although they refer only to the South Korean market, they already give us a glimpse of what other countries can expect when the GV60 starts to be shipped abro...
29 Sep 2021, 23:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla always claims that combustion-engined fires are more common than those with electric vehicles. However, the company has been collecting more and more cases of Model S and Model X spontaneous fires all over the world and in the U.S. in particu...
29 Sep 2021, 22:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On April 7, 2021, NIO announced it had produced its 100,000th vehicle. That was a little after the company celebrated 2 million battery swaps in a tweet on March 24. The company achieved 1 million exchanges in October 2020, which shows an interesti...
29 Sep 2021, 20:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We’ve already mentioned Zhang Yazhou a few times here at autoevolution, even before we knew her name. Her protest against Tesla at Auto Shanghai 2021 made her world famous when she jumped on top of a Model 3 to scream that it had defective br...
29 Sep 2021, 13:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 13, 2021, we published an investigation about why Hyundai decided to eliminate the rear wiper on the Ioniq 5. The company told us that it was “to ensure the best aerodynamic performance” but did not tell us how much more mileage...
29 Sep 2021, 09:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Philip Koopman already said that Tesla is not using safety factors in its Safety Score Beta. What the company is adopting are risk factors used by insurance companies – which raised suspicion that the Tesla software had other goals than grant...
28 Sep 2021, 18:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld became world-famous when it showed how a first-generation Mercedes-Benz A-Class dealt with a moose test: it flipped without electronic assistance. Our colleagues from Sweden continue to carry out these eval...