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27 Aug 2021, 15:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In March, Nikkei Asia anticipated that Nissan and Mitsubishi would have a new kei car option. It would be electric and probably based on the IMk concept presented in October 2019. No official confirmation about that came until this August 27, when ...
27 Aug 2021, 12:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have never been the best of friends. The Amazon founder recently sued NASA for picking up SpaceX to put astronauts on the Moon. After Amazon sent FCC a letter of protest for SpaceX putting new Starlink satellites in orbit, ...
27 Aug 2021, 10:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the Chengdu Motor Show opened its gates, our primary hope was to discover what WEI would call its Ora Punk/Ballet Cat version. If you do not remember what these EVs are, just remember the Chinese vehicles that looked just like a Volkswagen Bee...
26 Aug 2021, 17:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Chengdu Motor Show opens on August 27 (for the press) with at least one controversial vehicle: the Ora Ballet Cat. According to our friends at CarNewsChina, the second Beetle-wannabe EV from Ora is destined for girls, while the Ora Punk Cat is ...
26 Aug 2021, 15:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The shift to electric mobility has allowed multiple companies and people to ask different questions than those the automotive industry was allowed to ask. ACM (Adaptative City Mobility) made a bunch of them to conceive the City One, its first elect...
26 Aug 2021, 11:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Faraday Future started out with bold promises. It would produce a luxury electric crossover in Nevada by 2017 in a $1 billion factory. Things got complicated, and the factory is no more. What stood still was the car project, and Faraday Future is n...
25 Aug 2021, 18:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro published an intriguing video on August 25. It could be compared to a conspiracy theory about the U.S. government trying to bring Tesla down if it did not come from a man with extensive experience in manufacturing and innovation in the ...
25 Aug 2021, 14:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid was supposed to start delivering its electric sedan, the Air, back in the spring of 2021, but it decided its customers would be willing to wait a bit more for a spotless car. The company now states that deliveries should start “later th...
25 Aug 2021, 13:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is being praised in all markets where it is already for sale. Apart from the lack of a rear window wiper, the car received excellent reviews and impressed those worried about charging times with its 800V system. For those wonder...
25 Aug 2021, 10:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The international health crisis affected multiple lives and businesses, and auto shows were no exception. They were already experiencing a change, which made the IAA move from Frankfurt to Munich, but the COVID-19 made things even worse. Struggling...
25 Aug 2021, 08:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems Citroën hit the jackpot with the Ami. It should be doing so well that Opel decided to have its share of that cake. Another possibility is that Stellantis thinks the idea can succeed in markets where the Citroën brand may not do s...
24 Aug 2021, 17:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nio definitely does not want people taking any chances while driving its vehicles with NOP (Navigate on Pilot). When Lin Wenqin, the founder of Chinese restaurant brand Meiyihao, died after crashing his ES8 while using the advanced driving assistan...
24 Aug 2021, 15:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mazda says it conceived the MX-30 to have a battery pack that did not compromise the vehicle’s dynamics. As brilliant as it may be in that regard, the fact is that the electric crossover was designed to have a range extender. The car’s ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro managed to have Donna Dickson in one of his latest videos. The Ford Mustang Mach-E chief engineer started the conversation by mentioning she inherited many of the decisions that were taken about the car, which was a pity. For the good a...
24 Aug 2021, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford announced it already has 120,000 pre-orders for the F-150 Lightning, which is way above what the company expected. According to Reuters, that led the automaker to double the production targets for the electric pickup truck. Instead of producin...
23 Aug 2021, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We already know quite a bit about Polestar’s future vehicle, the Polestar 3. The electric SUV will be closely related to the Volvo XC90 successor: both will be made at Volvo’s Ridgeville plant in the U.S. using the SPA2 architecture. Th...
23 Aug 2021, 14:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A Model S caught fire in April 2019 in Shanghai. A few weeks later, Tesla released an OTA (over-the-air) update that capped the voltage and charging speed of multiple vehicles. Some owners in the U.S. and Norway sued Tesla. While the company propos...
23 Aug 2021, 12:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro crowdfunded the purchase of a Tesla Model S Plaid to tear it down and show what makes it the quickest four-door vehicle currently available worldwide. While he will take a while to receive the EV, Rich Benoit managed to get his hands on...
22 Aug 2021, 18:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In Brazil, carmakers are more commonly known as assemblers (montadoras). That started because automobiles need multiple parts, and most of them come from suppliers. You name it: glasses, seats, tires, wheels, steering wheels, electronic modules, se...
21 Aug 2021, 07:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we thought the GM recall for the Chevrolet Bolt EV would not give us anything else to write about, the company surprised us. It had finally decided to replace the defective battery modules without disclosing what caused the fires. In an unusua...