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18 Sep 2021, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The fiery Tesla Model 3 crash that killed two people in Coral Gables on September 13 could have passed as an ordinary crash. The fact that the driver was 20 years old made many people try to dismiss it as if it was caused simply by lack of experien...
17 Sep 2021, 19:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nio revealed that it wanted to sell the ET7 in Germany a few days ago. It could have seized William Li’s interview to the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to do so. However, the NIO CEO preferred to tell the German newspaper that his comp...
17 Sep 2021, 18:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although autonomous driving was basically a solved problem for Elon Musk since June 2016 – when he said so – the truth is that no vehicle currently for sale can drive itself. It does not matter: there will always be someone willing to p...
17 Sep 2021, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV sells like hot cakes in China, beating the Model 3 made there multiple times before the Tesla stopped selling that well. However, being sold only for Chinese customers made it more of a curiosity until FreZe announced i...
16 Sep 2021, 20:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In June, Volvo announced the XC90 successor – now with a proper name – would be the first production vehicle ever to present a LiDAR as standard equipment. Audi did that with the A8 some years ago, mind you, but no EV presented it so fa...
16 Sep 2021, 17:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 24, 2021, Ford announced that it had so many pre-orders for the F-150 Lightning that it would double its initial production capacity for this product. Instead of 40,000 electric pickup trucks, it would make 80,000. On September 16, the...
16 Sep 2021, 15:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The NIO ET7 will arrive in Norway in 2022, but the Chinese company did not specify which month. For its sales in Germany, the company at least mentioned that it will happen by the end of next year. If people are waiting for the electric sedan abroa...
16 Sep 2021, 13:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The new Chevrolet Bolt EV fire in Canton, Georgia, has apparently made General Motors add an extra precaution to those already listed on the EV's recall page. According to Bloomberg, the automaker requested some of their customers them to park...
16 Sep 2021, 09:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The fiery crash involving a Tesla in Coral Gables we recently told you about has raised multiple questions that the police would have to answer. As competent as the forensic investigation is, it is always helpful to have witnesses report what happe...
15 Sep 2021, 19:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hon Hai is more popularly known as Foxconn. On October 15, 2020, the smartphone manufacturer giant promised that it would create an electric modular car platform called MIH Open Platform to manufacture EVs for other companies – like it produc...
15 Sep 2021, 17:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 13, a car crashed into a tree in Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, Florida. According to videos made by Local 10 News, neither of the occupants – the 20-year-old male driver and the 19-year-old female passenger – could be save...
15 Sep 2021, 14:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volvo revealed it would produce the Polestar 3 in its Ridgeville plant in the U.S., that may have given people the impression that the new electric SUV would be just a badge-engineered version of the XC90 successor. In an interview with Car an...
15 Sep 2021, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla always chooses the easiest path for repair in its cars despite the cost for its customers. That said, it will give them a $16,000 estimate for a repair that could cost $700, as we have already told you. It also provided a customer with a $22,...
14 Sep 2021, 19:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / American automotive journalists are currently test-driving the newest version of the ID.4 called AWD Pro. As the name makes it clear, it is the derivative with power in all four wheels for the U.S, and the German carmaker waited for this moment to ...
14 Sep 2021, 17:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While the Hyundai Ioniq 5 may look like a tall crossover in pictures, it is quite the opposite. When you meet it live, you’ll see it looks like the older brother of any given hatchback. That is probably why Hyundai decided to give this overde...
14 Sep 2021, 16:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA’s (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) investigation on Tesla Autopilot hitting emergency vehicles reached a new chapter on September 13, 2021 - that was when the agency sent information requests to 12 other manufacturers. T...
14 Sep 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 13, we told our readers that GM was not hiding anymore that it was unhappy with LGES (LG Energy Solution). The company said its engineers are helping the battery supplier to “clean up the manufacturing process” by implement...
14 Sep 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You know China is the largest automotive market in the world. Having sold 25 million cars in 2020, it is almost double what the U.S. marketed in 2020 (14.5 million cars). What you probably missed was that the country had 300 brands of electric vehi...
13 Sep 2021, 22:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This article offers no answers for what you can see in the tweets below. One of them only explains that the violent footage was not a road rage incident, as it may seem from the first video. In fact, a thief was running away from the owner of the L...
13 Sep 2021, 21:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / From the 1990s until the end of the 2000s, a machine allowed multiple people to dream of leaning on curves without a motorcycle. Sadly, the Carver One’s pricing made only a few afford to do that – 250, to be more precise. The good news ...