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7 Sep 2021, 14:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 16, we shared with our readers that Volkswagen’s closed-loop approach seemed to have a flaw. The company said it would recycle its battery packs as if it owned them even after selling its EVs to customers. On July 23, Volkswagen told ...
7 Sep 2021, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Microlino is not just an interesting electric bubble car. It has faced so many twists that it could also be an engaging soap opera that fortunately reached a happy ending at the IAA 2021. Micro-Mobility chose the German event to present the pro...
7 Sep 2021, 09:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Can an off-roader be a fuel-efficient machine? After many years covering the automotive industry, the closest we ever got to that was the Suzuki Jimny and only because it was tiny and very light. These vehicles are usually massive and have a vast f...
6 Sep 2021, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Great Wall has aggressive expansion plans. After buying a Mercedes-Benz factory in Iracemápolis, Brazil, it is now preparing to sell in Europe again. The first attempt came with a factory in Bulgaria in 2012 that was closed in 2017. With the...
6 Sep 2021, 14:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / True to its motorsport tradition, Porsche decided to present an all-electric concept car at the IAA 2021. The Mission R aims to tackle tracks around the world with multiple attractive solutions to keep running for as long as possible. However, the ...
6 Sep 2021, 12:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the BRP Can-Am trike first hit the streets, it made me wonder why so many were so thrilled about it. Despite being almost as large as a car, it did not have a roof and was not as narrow as a motorcycle to have the same nimbleness. The City Tra...
6 Sep 2021, 10:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When William Varner, 59, and Everette Talbot, 69, died in a fiery crash in Texas back on April 17, 2021, weird details started to emerge. The first responders said no one was at the driver’s seat of the Tesla Model S, which was confirmed by w...
6 Sep 2021, 06:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As much as you may be fascinated with autonomous driving tech and how it will reach customers, don’t be fooled by how Volkswagen presented the ID. Buzz AD (Autonomous Driving). The press release focuses on the vehicle’s new LiDAR and th...
31 Aug 2021, 18:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The good part about being one of the major car magazines in the world is that you get to test vehicles all other colleagues will be waiting for quite a while to drive. The bad thing is that you have so many vehicles in reference that you can hardly...
31 Aug 2021, 17:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is probably striving to share some good news, but things are not easy for the company lately. Apart from having to wait until 2023 for its 4680 batteries, Autopilot accidents keep happening with emergency vehicles. If that was not enough, ano...
31 Aug 2021, 15:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you are not among the Chevrolet Bolt EV owners that experienced a fire, the recall may bring you good news: you may get more range than your car originally had. For LGES (LG Energy Solution), all this issue brought was bad news. GM recently said...
31 Aug 2021, 12:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You could expect that the first fire involving a Volkswagen ID.3 would be under heavy scrutiny at this point. After more than one week of trying to discover who is investigating the blaze in Groningen apart from the automaker, we can say that is de...
31 Aug 2021, 10:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems Elon Musk’s worst estimate for the 4680 cells was still optimistic. According to the Chinese website 36KR, an unnamed source told them that these new batteries would only reach production in 2023, postponing the manufacturing of some...
30 Aug 2021, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 21, 2017, a Chery Tiggo 2 disappointed our colleagues from Z Drive in Russia. They were testing the SUV, and the gas pedal just broke. That had already happened with other Chery vehicles tested by Brazilian magazines as well. The issue em...
30 Aug 2021, 10:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On August 16, 2021, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) opened an investigation on Tesla’s driving aid systems with a very specific target. The goal was to understand why these EVs crash so often with emergency vehicles. Un...
30 Aug 2021, 09:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Rivian, the R1T and the R1S are capable of water fording up to 42.7 inches (1.08 meters). If that does not say much, you should check what it looks like in real life with the video RJ Scaringe shared on Twitter. The Rivian CEO did not ...
29 Aug 2021, 17:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you read our article about the vehicle Alpha Motor Corporation presented at the Petersen Automotive Museum, you know it is not a prototype but rather a mockup. In other words, it is a design study – probably made of clay – with no in...
28 Aug 2021, 07:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla AI Day would happen way past bedtime for me. On other occasions, I’d probably stay up and watch the entire thing hoping that something exciting would be revealed. This time, nobody expected more than an event to attract new talents ...
27 Aug 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When you buy a car, you trust it will be safe. When you drive, you trust people beside you will be careful. Traffic safety loses every time that trust is betrayed by reality. Apart from incompetent, inattentive, and reckless drivers, car defects ar...
27 Aug 2021, 16:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian should start delivering its cars in September, but there were rumors that it would sell shares before it handled any vehicle to its customers. According to an official press release, that will not be the case by only a few weeks. In it, Rivi...