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23 Jul 2021, 09:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian recently postponed – again – the deliveries of its first vehicles, the R1T and the R1S. Despite that, the EV startup is already looking for a location to establish its second plant. Currently, Rivian plans to produce the electric...
23 Jul 2021, 07:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The most curious thing we have seen at the Volkswagen New Auto Strategy presentation had nothing to do with the company’s plans. If you follow autoevolution, you must have seen that the company included Mexico and Central America in its map o...
22 Jul 2021, 18:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the expectation that Mercedes-Benz would present the Vision EQXX concept this July 22, we can confess a slight frustration with not seeing the real deal. Despite that, Mercedes-Benz gave us a rather generous overview of the goals for that veh...
22 Jul 2021, 17:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz has stepped on the accelerator pedal in its electrification plans. To ditch the combustion-engined car it helped to invent in 1886, it will count on four electric platforms: MMA, MB.EA, AMG.EA, and VAN.EA. The problem is that the MMA ...
22 Jul 2021, 14:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After announcing it plans to give up on the combustion engine by the end of the decade “where market conditions allow," Mercedes-Benz presented a few other surprises. One of them is that it bought YASA Limited, a company you knew so far ...
22 Jul 2021, 10:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nio promised it would sell the first units of the ES8 in September. However, test drives there will start in August if the first shipment of these vehicles arrives soon in Norwegian ports. It has left the Shanghai Waigaoqiao port on July 20. The...
22 Jul 2021, 07:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla made the headlines when Elon Musk announced that the company would open Superchargers to other brands. The problem is that it doesn’t make sense. With more affordable vehicles for sale, the Tesla Supercharging network is busier than eve...
21 Jul 2021, 19:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz will make an update to its strategic plan announced on October 6, 2020. Recent rumors were that the German carmaker was planning to be more aggressive with its electric push and the event apparently confirms that this is the case. To ...
21 Jul 2021, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you are following the Mazda story about rotary engines as range extenders for EVs, you must still be confused with what the company seems to have said to Automotive News and Roadshow. To the first, Mazda confirmed it put those plans on hold....
21 Jul 2021, 14:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The efforts of unprepared automakers to present EVs as more pollutant than ICE cars are not new. What is surprising is that they are so enduring despite all the evidence to debunk them. ICCT (International Council on Clean Transportation) conducted...
20 Jul 2021, 19:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This must be one of the most bizarre events in recent times when it comes to corporate communication. First, rumors said Mazda would kill the rotary engine in the MX-30: the range extender would not be feasible. Asked about it, the company sai...
20 Jul 2021, 17:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone selling cars in China has an eye on the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV. Despite being so small, the electric quadricycle is a success, something none of its competitors managed to repeat. Chery wants to put a fight against the tiny EV with a known...
20 Jul 2021, 15:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We told you that Lightyear commissioned the production of its first car to Valmet Automotive on July 19. When the company starts delivering the Lightyear One, it will be the most energy-efficient family vehicle in the world. However, we still had s...
20 Jul 2021, 13:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / How long does it take for the most expensive component in a flagship vehicle to spread to all the lineup? In regular cars, that usually takes years or – sometimes – never happens. When it comes to the BYD Han, that took a little more th...
20 Jul 2021, 06:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been criticized for putting customers to beta test Autopilot and FSD for years. Apart from its advocates and fans, it is clear that the company cannot claim that safety is a top priority when it uses untrained drivers to develop some...
19 Jul 2021, 18:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian seems to have developed an electric delivery van to help one of its major investors deliver goods with no emissions. Although DHL is no Amazon, it will also partner with a car company to achieve clean deliveries. However, it has two advantag...
19 Jul 2021, 17:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen produced some station wagons using the Beetle floor pan: the Type 3 Squareback, 411 Variant, and the Brazilian Variant and Variant II are the ones we are aware of. Yet, it never sold one with the Beetle front end. The guys from Overtake ...
19 Jul 2021, 14:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been following Aptera closely ever since it got back from the dead. Being such a unique proposition is just part of what makes it interesting: it will also be one of the most energy-efficient vehicles available when it is put for sale. Chri...
19 Jul 2021, 10:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You may not remember the Th!nk City, but it was one of the very first modern electric cars on the road. It was produced by Valmet Automotive, a manufacturing contractor who also delivered the Fisker Karma, the original Porsche Boxter and Cayman, an...
19 Jul 2021, 08:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a massive problem with the promises it makes: people remember them. If reminding them was not enough, some of these promises are written down so that customers can be sure they were made at some point. On October 19, 2016, the company...