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23 Jun 2023, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Evidence-based medicine is a systematic approach to treating patients based on the best available scientific evidence. In other words, it only applies what studies confirm that truly works. This principle should be applied to everything. Yet, we st...
23 Jun 2023, 17:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford and SK Innovation's battery division (SK On) established a joint venture to build three factories in the US: two in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. BlueOval SK has its eyes on quite an incentive to get these plants done: $9.2 billion. That...
22 Jun 2023, 20:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone following Volkswagen may feel the urge to tell the company to make up its mind. In 2021, it was optimistic about delivering the first car with the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) in 2026. When Oliver Blume became the VW Group's CEO to r...
22 Jun 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD is reaching new markets with impressive products that bury the idea that Chinese companies copy famous car designs to sell more. The Han, Atto 3, and Dolphin have a distinctive style that is helping them achieve good sales numbers in new countr...
21 Jun 2023, 23:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fast cars are often called expensive toys because they are built to make their drivers have fun at the steering wheel. Despite that, the McMurtry Spéirling Pure is possibly the automobile that deserves that classification the most. After all...
21 Jun 2023, 16:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Ghosn cannot leave Lebanon because Japan issued a Red Notice on Interpol for his immediate arrest should he do that. He claims to be the victim of a corporate plot that the facts of his case have only reinforced. That led him to seek a curio...
21 Jun 2023, 01:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As much as we can sometimes anticipate data and pictures of future models, their official world premieres are the moment of truth. In the Ram Rampage case, it confirmed most of the information we shared with our readers but added more official imag...
20 Jun 2023, 21:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I had just finished writing about how the intention to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) was dropping in the US when Rivian announced it would be the next car company to adhere to the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Not only that: it wi...
20 Jun 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Several BEV advocates thought that all it would take for customers to buy more electric cars was a broader offer of products. Or more financial incentives, more chargers, and more "education" for those who are not that interested in vehic...
19 Jun 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The EV shift is happening with the excuse of turning personal transportation more sustainable. In a way, it is a direct consequence of the increasingly stricter emission rules that carmakers have to obey. Just check the Euro 7 controversy, and you&...
17 Jun 2023, 06:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Rimac Nevera's record from 0 to 400 kph and back to 0 was short-lived. Koenigsegg announced on June 16 that the Regera broke it. There is no word on the quarter-mile record, but that probably has to do with the Swedish automaker not talkin...
16 Jun 2023, 14:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla shares have been increasing in value lately on news that Ford and General Motors will use the North American Charging Standard (NACS). It is not very clear how having more vehicles using the Supercharging network with a charging standard that...
15 Jun 2023, 17:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Toyota's plans to sell battery electric cars (BEVs), I forgot to mention that those plans were announced by a new business division called BEV Factory. Toyota disclosed another division on the "Let's Change the Fut...
14 Jun 2023, 11:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In my research to write about the Our Next Energy (ONE) Gemini battery pack, I ended up watching some interviews and presentations from Mujeeb Ijaz, the startup's CEO. Although explaining the accumulator's purpose was fascinating, the goa...
13 Jun 2023, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota is still seen as an EV-skeptic automaker because it dared not follow the hype around these vehicles. The world's largest car company has tried to say several times it would only follow this path when battery technology was at the right ...
13 Jun 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 21, 2019, the world got to know the Tesla Cybertruck. The electric pickup truck would arrive in 2021 with a stressed-skin structure, an affordable price, and revolutionary 4680 cells. Almost four years later, virtually all that has been...
11 Jun 2023, 08:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / General Motors announced it also made a deal with Tesla to use its Supercharging network and the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Ford did that a few weeks ago. While people bet that CCS will eventually disappear and Ford and GM should offe...
9 Jun 2023, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 2, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration disclosed that Stellantis had to pay $235.6 million in fines for not meeting fuel economy standards. General Motors was also punished with $128.2 million in penalties, for a total of $36...
7 Jun 2023, 19:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have been following Our Next Energy (ONE) as closely as possible after the company achieved something extraordinary. It made a Model S equipped with its Gemini battery pack run 752 miles (1,210 kilometers) on a single full charge. This component ...
6 Jun 2023, 09:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla proved battery electric vehicles (BEVs) could be desirable. Lucid and Rivian found their own arguments to reinforce the same thing. Tesla only sells its cars directly to customers, as Lucid and Rivian also do. It is natural that BEV startups ...