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20 Aug 2021, 18:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Car manufacturing is hard, as famous and anonymous people like to remind us. Before a vehicle reaches mass production, it demands pre-production units. They help to validate the assembly process and to test all steps before consumers start receivin...
20 Aug 2021, 15:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Of all the electric vehicles on the market so far, the VW ID.3 was one of the few that did not present any fire episode. That ended on August 14 when one of these EVs burned to the ground in Groningen, in the Netherlands. The Meternieuws YouTube...
20 Aug 2021, 12:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The three “Rs” for a more sustainable life are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. BMW created a project in Brazil that used the first two Rs to prevent the third one. After collecting used battery modules from some i3s it sold in that country,...
20 Aug 2021, 11:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Transitioning personal transportation to electric vehicles is just part of the challenge that lies ahead. If we are not to use the energy contained in fossil fuels, we will have to harvest it elsewhere. Solar and wind are progressing at high speed,...
19 Aug 2021, 17:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s no bright perspective about what is happening in Afghanistan. While people point fingers about who should have done what, many are dying. Women and children are particularly terrified of the future there. The latest tale that emerged ...
19 Aug 2021, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The combustion engine was about to disappear not only because oil is a finite raw material. The fact that the best ones still lose 60% of the energy they receive through fuel also makes them incredibly inefficient machines. Since the very beginning...
19 Aug 2021, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Zhang Yazhou jumped on the roof of a Tesla Model 3 to protest against the company at the Auto Shanghai 2021, the company faced severe reputation damages in China. Some owners installed cameras to film the pedals and prove they were not to bla...
19 Aug 2021, 08:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people accuse Sandy Munro of being a Tesla puppet for praising Tesla's solutions most of the time. His new video shows that the engineer only tells things as he sees them, something he has repeated over and over again. The Ford Mustang Ma...
18 Aug 2021, 17:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some advertisement videos are pretty forgettable. Some others stick to popular culture and remain in our heads for years to come. In its latest marketing effort, Audi made a video about the present that did not forget its past and presented the fut...
18 Aug 2021, 15:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have told you about Swindon Powertrain thanks to the Swind E Classic Mini. Later, we told you about the conversion kit the company was selling for a relatively lower price tag. If costs are not a concern for you, you should know that Hemmels cho...
18 Aug 2021, 12:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla could not get more bad news about Autopilot and FSD. If it was not enough to have NHTSA investigating why its cars crash so much against parked emergency vehicles, now the Senate Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Edward Markey also went after ...
18 Aug 2021, 10:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we talked about the BYD Dolphin, it was expected to cost below RMB100,000. BYD’s pre-sales of the new compact EV revealed that the expectation was right: the entry-level Dolphin will cost RMB96,800, which is equivalent to $14,95...
18 Aug 2021, 08:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk has often claimed that autonomous driving was “basically a solved problem.” He also has multiple videos acting as if Autopilot already offered autonomous driving. Officially, Tesla states the truth about it: that Autopilot and...
17 Aug 2021, 17:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s no autonomous car for sale yet. Despite that, customers want to believe Level 2 driving aid systems such as Autopilot are better than humans. When reality strikes, it is often too late. Autopilot is not alone with overreliance issues:...
17 Aug 2021, 15:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / News of crashes with Autopilot keep emerging as much as those of investigations on the system. When a blue Tesla Model 3 ran over seven people outside the Ardingly College in the UK, some immediately jumped to the conclusion that Autopilot was also...
17 Aug 2021, 11:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Elon Musk, prototypes are easy; production is hard. Mockups are even easier than prototypes. Alpha Motor Corporation said it would present the Alpha Wolf on August 24 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the...
17 Aug 2021, 10:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have no clue about what the Ora Punk Cat is, we are sure you know why it became famous. Just have a look in our gallery, and you’ll say it is a Volkswagen Bettle. The fact that it isn’t explains all the controversy around it. Ora...
17 Aug 2021, 08:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk recently said that “hydrogen is a waste of time,” but some companies are willing to spend this time to prove otherwise. Toyota already sells the Mirai, Hyundai has the Nexo, and BMW will join them by the end of 2022 with small...
16 Aug 2021, 18:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You are forgiven if you think the video below was of an SNL sketch, but it wasn’t. In a press conference held after a visit to Giga Grünheide with Armin Laschet, Germany's conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancello...
16 Aug 2021, 15:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has been accused multiple times of being too soft on Tesla. It has opened 27 investigations about Tesla, 19 of which related to Autopilot. Two of them were concluded, leaving us with 25 inquiri...