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28 Sep 2021, 14:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Polestar seems to be perfectly comfortable with sharing its secrets with everyone. After it confirmed that it would reach the stock market thanks to a SPAC merger, the Swedish company also revealed which vehicles it intends to present after the Pol...
28 Sep 2021, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen embraced the electric mobility shift by retooling many of its current factories to manufacture only EVs, with Zwickau, Germany, being the first. Ford seems to have decided it needed an entirely new industrial complex to do the same. That...
28 Sep 2021, 06:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What we already knew about the Victorian Big Battery fire is that it took four days, 150 people, and 30 fire trucks to extinguish it. We still wanted to learn was what caused the fire, but Neoen has been relatively quick in answering that. The blaz...
27 Sep 2021, 21:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Totem Automobili became worldwide famous when it created the GTElectric, an electric restomod of the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA. Some of the 20 units of the car are apparently still for sale. However, that did not prevent Totem from creating a new vehic...
27 Sep 2021, 18:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla released FSD access, it selected a few to “test” the system. This early access became a sort of distinction to put them higher in the “Tesla community” hierarchy. Vice discovered that this medal came with a cost: ...
27 Sep 2021, 17:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Geely says it started researching battery swap technology back in 2017. Despite that, it only registered the name for its system in June 2020 and began operating it in September 2020 in Chongqing. So far, the E-Energee service is restricted to CaoC...
27 Sep 2021, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We told you the story of Han Chao last September 21. This Tesla customer won RMB1,518,800 ($234,948 at the current exchange rate) from the company after winning a lawsuit against it. The Chinese courts decided Tesla committed fraud by selling him a...
27 Sep 2021, 11:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Being owned by Geely does not mean that Volvo and Polestar are not considering going public. On the contrary: Volvo announced on May 12 that it was wondering about an IPO (initial public offering). On the other hand, Polestar wants to sell shares i...
27 Sep 2021, 09:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people have paid up to $10,000 for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite but were not told that it was meant to be a privilege, not a product. In other words, Tesla charged them for the right to be considered, not for actually letting them use...
26 Sep 2021, 11:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The design differences between the concepts VW ID. LIFE and the Cupra UrbanRebel are so evident that it should be obvious they will spawn different production cars. As we already explained, the VW ID. LIFE will probably be named ID.1, while Volkswa...
26 Sep 2021, 09:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Badge engineering is a practice many automakers pledged not to use ever again. After all, it gives customers a bad impression that this was a lazy engineering solution. However, it seems the Chinese market is so big that it offers some leeway: some...
25 Sep 2021, 15:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk disclosed a while ago that Tesla would allow all customers to request access to FSD (Full Self-Driving). That made critics of the system’s use on public roads get really worried about the implications. The Tesla CEO then said that o...
25 Sep 2021, 12:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Xpeng recently made the headlines after presenting the P5, the first EV to feature a LiDAR as standard equipment (in more expensive versions). Despite that, the company has been praising its ADAS system since the P7. It is called XPILOT 3.0. The P5...
25 Sep 2021, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have read our article about the Mercedes-Benz EQS pricing in the U.S., you know it gives the impression that the German automaker has cracked EV production cost parity with ICE vehicles. If that is really the case, only Mercedes-Benz knows a...
24 Sep 2021, 17:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Jim Farley seemed to be very proud of the Ford Mustang Mach-E in the tweet below. Ford’s CEO told his followers that the electric SUV was the first electric car to pass the Michigan State Police evaluation. It is unclear if it is the first on...
24 Sep 2021, 13:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When it comes to battery chemistries, one of the most promising is lithium-sulfur. Sulfur is an abundant and cheap material, and a lithium-sulfur battery could theoretically reach 2,600 Wh/kg. That’s ten times the energy density of current te...
24 Sep 2021, 10:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NIO seems to be pretty proud of its first sedan. The ET7 obtained a remarkably low drag coefficient: only 0.208. NIO said it is the second-lowest result for production vehicles, but it failed to inform which one is the best: the Mercedes-Benz EQS, ...
24 Sep 2021, 08:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) is wasting no time trying to understand what made a Tesla Model 3 hit a tree and burn in Coral Gables on September 13. After starting investigations on September 20, the safety board is now asking witness...
24 Sep 2021, 06:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been following the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV carefully because it is a best-seller in China. It has already sold more than 370,000 units since July 2020, when it was presented. The automaker has recently revealed the arrival of a larger vers...
23 Sep 2021, 21:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Carlos Ghosn arrived at Nissan in 1999, only 3 of the 46 models it sold in Japan generated profits. The company had a debt of more than $20 billion and a paid ticket to bankruptcy. Turning its fate around was deemed impossible, but Ghosn broug...