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13 Sep 2021, 17:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / LGES (LG Energy Solution) and General Motors keep saying that they have a “close relationship” and that they are trying to make the best they can to start the recall for all the Chevrolet Bolt EVs ever produced. If you read the fin...
13 Sep 2021, 16:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Invest in America Act, technically known as H.R. 3684, will be voted on September 14. Far from being something that electric car manufacturers would all be happy about, it is at the center of disputes among them: everybody wants taxpayers&rsquo...
13 Sep 2021, 10:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This is not the first case of a battery pack issue that almost turns into a death sentence to an EV. Tyler Hoover, from the Hoovie's Garage YouTube channel, bought a 2013 Tesla Model S P85. Soon after its battery pack got out of warranty, it g...
11 Sep 2021, 07:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit already did us a great favor in debunking the myth that EVs don’t need maintenance. If that were right, he and his partners would not have opened three Electrified Garage shops in such a short time. However, manufacturing myths ab...
11 Sep 2021, 06:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen wants to crack the production price parity between ICE vehicles and electric cars with the MEB Lite, also called MEB Entry. From what the company disclosed so far, it will need the unified cell with LFP chemistry. Yet, many people still ...
10 Sep 2021, 20:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Porsche revealed on September 10 that it would build an eFuel plant in Chile. The Haru Oni project intends to use wind power to create green hydrogen, which will be processed to produce synthetic methanol, and, eventually, an eFuel compatible with ...
10 Sep 2021, 18:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 2011, a Bloomberg reporter tried to talk to Elon Musk about BYD, and he started to laugh uncontrollably. He summed up the discussion with a question: “Have you seen their car?” Ten years later, we have no idea what Musk thinks about ...
9 Sep 2021, 19:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I was surprised today to learn this is World EV Day. Eager to write something about the date, I tried to discover when the day was created and found out it was very recent. A company called Green.TV started it in 2020. It was established on Septemb...
9 Sep 2021, 15:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems BYD will christen all its vehicles connected with the e-platform 3.0 with names related to the sea. While the first one was called Dolphin, the company presented the design study of its flagship over the same architecture. It is called oce...
9 Sep 2021, 10:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford’s transition to EVs made another victim. Focusing on the electric mobility shift and its Ford+ strategic plan, the company had to let go of manufacturing operations that did not make a profit. After doing so in Australia and Brazil, the ...
9 Sep 2021, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You probably did not hear that Hispano Suiza officially presented the Carmen Boulogne at the IAA 2021. It was a discrete presentation carried out by the Mohr Group, which represents the Spanish brand in Germany. That did not stop Deutsche Welle fro...
8 Sep 2021, 19:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The further you can travel on the island of Great Britain is from John O’Groats to Land’s End. The distance by road is traditionally set at 874 miles (1,406 km), but it seems Ford found a shortcut to make it in a little more than 840 mi...
8 Sep 2021, 18:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Battery improvements may take decades to happen. On rare occasions, we can have two on the same day. After QuantumScape said its solid-state lithium-metal platform could replace traditional anodes even in LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cells, Sila Na...
8 Sep 2021, 16:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we told you Great Wall would sell its cars in Europe again, we told you the Wei Coffee 01 is a Wei Mocca and that the Ora Cat is the Ora Good Cat in China. There was just a problem with that: journalists that went to the IAA 2021 and probably ...
8 Sep 2021, 14:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After seeing the weird presentation of a Tesla Bot with CGI and a human dancing on stage, you may be still making up your mind about what the point of that presentation was. Rich Benoit took some time to present his, but it is as fun as usual despi...
8 Sep 2021, 10:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It does not matter how much things change with time: people will often stick with preconceptions for as long as possible. Ask the average Joe about how safe EVs, FCEVs, or Chinese cars are, and they will tell you they’re dangerous. Euro NCAP ...
8 Sep 2021, 09:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have written more than once about solid-state batteries. Their promise of offering a more energy-dense, lighter, and safer lithium-ion cell puts them in the limelight of the EV future. QuantumScape is one of the leading companies when it comes t...
8 Sep 2021, 07:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have never heard about Doug Field, that’s a shame. The man has been involved with major automotive projects and was working at Apple on special projects, which you can also read as an electric car from that company. After making the Mo...
7 Sep 2021, 19:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota already sold a pure EV. It was the RAV4 EV. In its first generation, it used nickel-metal hydride batteries and a heat pump. The second one had a Tesla battery pack. It seemed that the company would take a long time to sell an EV again, but ...
7 Sep 2021, 18:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai recently presented one impressive EV, the Ioniq 5. It offers fast charging capabilities similar to those of the Porsche Taycan for half the price. That does not mean the company is entirely betting on electric cars; on the contrary. Hyundai...