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29 Jul 2021, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Right when Rivian confirmed it was looking for a 10,000-acre land to establish its second factory, we wrote: that’s for new products, not for the ones already presented. It did not take long for Rivian to tacitly confirm that. The Rivian Owne...
29 Jul 2021, 07:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Of all the promises made by Elon Musk, one of the most frustrating must have been The Boring Company’s Loops. Still presented by the company as a revolution for traffic with autonomous cars driving at speeds of up to 150 mph, the Loop ended u...
28 Jul 2021, 20:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Audi has a date for presenting at least one of its three concepts from the Artemis project: August 10. The Sky Sphere concept will appear at Audi’s new design studio in Malibu, California, and Marc Lichte and Henrik Wenders made a video to st...
28 Jul 2021, 17:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / April Fool’s Day pranks usually present an absurd fact as if it were true to make fun of those who believe it. What would you call presenting a genuine risk as something absurd to dismiss rumors about it? That’s what Elon Musk did on Ap...
28 Jul 2021, 11:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have covered R-EV projects by Electrogenic twice here on autoevolution. The British company had converted local classics such as the Jaguar E-Type and the Morgan 4/4 to electricity and called them Retro EVs. Still, it also enjoys vehicles with a...
28 Jul 2021, 07:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Reuters broke the news that Rivian would have a second plant, it estimated the company would spend at least $3 billion. About $1 billion would go to the EV factory itself, but Rivian also planned to have a cell manufacturing facility in the sa...
28 Jul 2021, 06:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We recently wrote an article about a repair that Tesla charged $16,000 to make. The Electrified Garage eventually sorted it out for $700. The story we tell you now shows legacy automakers are not free of mind-boggling repair bills with their EVs. I...
27 Jul 2021, 15:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Can anyone be the CEO of two companies at the same time? That’s pretty much what it may seem to happen now with Michael Lohscheller. Stellantis announced he would be replaced at Opel’s helm by Uwe Hochgeschurtz from September 1 on. Now,...
27 Jul 2021, 09:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla, Elon Musk, and company executives often make weird remarks about the company’s strategy. In the latest Q2 2020 financial results presentation, Musk said that it’s “debatable” if the FSD subscription makes sense and th...
27 Jul 2021, 08:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A while ago, some websites said that the Tesla Semi would be in production soon. What these guys miss is that such rumors are equivalent to saying a building will be built without its foundation. In Tesla’s case, the foundation corresponds to...
27 Jul 2021, 06:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been presenting profitable quarters since Q3 2019. The issue is that profit came in most cases from regulatory credits – money that automakers that can’t meet carbon emission rules pay to benefit from Tesla’s numbers. In...
26 Jul 2021, 19:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When someone tells you they will double anything, you have to ask: “Compared to what?” If you are talking about 1 or 2 things, doubling may not take that much effort. This is why Polestar announcing it will double its global presence an...
26 Jul 2021, 15:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mercedes-Benz presented its strategy to become electric-only “where market conditions allow," it also revealed something interesting about what it plans for future cells. According to the company, it is “aiming for a modular b...
26 Jul 2021, 13:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Gordon Murray is making the most of the time combustion engines have left. His latest creation, the T.50, promises to have the highest-revving road-going V12 in history. When it is fully unleashed, it will be able to reach 12,100 rpm. While it isn&...
26 Jul 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BMW 6 Series has lost much of its appeal after the German brand released the 8 Series. That led to rumors that we may see it morph into a Porsche 911 rival instead. With the Z4 competing with the Porsche Boxster, this new sports car could be na...
24 Jul 2021, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Chery did not take long to reveal official QQ Ice Cream pictures after it released some teaser images. They show it is exactly like the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV apart from the Chery badge and the ice cream camouflage that states it is a Mini SUV. Y...
23 Jul 2021, 17:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to John Lennon, “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” In a recent article, we warned that life might catch off guard automakers that plan to recycle all their battery packs. Volkswagen wa...
23 Jul 2021, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV keeps selling better than the Model 3 in China. In June, it found 29,143 new owners there, while 16,515 chose a Tesla. In Europe, people are still waiting for the FreZe Nikrob EV, a car assembled in Lithuania as part of...
23 Jul 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM has found an intriguing way to deal with the Chevrolet Bolt EV fires. Instead of admitting that the first recall was not enough to solve the issue, it announced that LG Energy Solution helped it to discover something else. According to the two c...
23 Jul 2021, 12:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With everything Mercedes-Benz presented at its strategy update for becoming an electric-only car company by 2030, some details must have gone unnoticed. Two of the most important were just teasers, and Mercedes-Benz talked about only one: the EQS S...