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7 Jul 2021, 09:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Every single day we hear about a new company that will bring innovative electric cars to the market. Very few present enough substance to be taken seriously, even if they manage to buy a factory. It takes more than that to deserve some credibility,...
7 Jul 2021, 06:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla owners have issues with their cars, they sometimes ask Elon Musk for help on Twitter. The Tesla CEO typically answers just those from famous people such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The author of “The Black Swan” and “Anti...
6 Jul 2021, 18:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Auto Express selected the Hyundai Ioniq 5 as the winner of its Car of the Year 2021 Award. That alone would be enough to say that our British colleagues liked the new electric SUV very much, but that would not be enough to describe what they though...
6 Jul 2021, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Riversimple is getting a lot of attention these days, not only for proposing a different approach to personal mobility. Thanks to a visit from the Prince of Wales, the revolutionary company made the headlines in the UK. Sadly, not precisely for the...
6 Jul 2021, 16:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Wuling presented the Hongguang Mini EV in July 2020. Until January, it had sold around 160,000 units. The company believes it will sell more than 400,000 units of the Hongguang Mini EV in 2021. If it achieves that number, it will need only two year...
6 Jul 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already told you Volkswagen is bragging about being the "first and only high-volume manufacturer" to offer an OTA (over-the-air) software update starting this month. Tesla provides that capability for a long time already, but it i...
6 Jul 2021, 10:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has its own statistics to claim that cars on Autopilot are safer than those driven solely by humans. A New York Times article shows that not everybody agrees with that, such as Jovani Maldonado’s family. The 15-year-old boy died in a cr...
5 Jul 2021, 21:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest video from Sandy Munro’s teardown process for the Ford Mustang Mach-E reached the heart of any electric car: the battery pack. One of the most exciting discoveries made by the Munro & Associates team has to do with the role thi...
5 Jul 2021, 18:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Frankfurt Motor Show is no more. It will be replaced in 2021 with the IAA Mobility, in Munich, from September 7 up to September 12. It is possible that it becomes the Munich Motor Show one day, but we’re not there yet. Audi will show ther...
5 Jul 2021, 13:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The rendering artist Theottle has already revealed multiple possibilities of future cars with his skills, most of them for vehicles that manufacturers have promised to eventually sell. This time, Theottle decided to conceive something that no one a...
5 Jul 2021, 10:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla said it would not sell a Model Y Standard Range in the US because its range would not fit the company’s standards for that. Curiously, the company is now offering a Model Y Standard Range in Hong Kong with 455 kilometers (283 miles) of ...
5 Jul 2021, 08:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / RJ Scaringe did not think that showing the camp kitchen for Rivian vehicles on Twitter was enough. The Rivian CEO also presented the Amazon electric vans Rivian has developed in a tweet in which he only said he loves them. The long line of side-by-...
2 Jul 2021, 18:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Twitter may be a harsh environment for civil virtual conversations but can also present very original perspectives for things that most people take for granted. Take battery recycling, for example. Companies are investing in recycling processes, op...
2 Jul 2021, 17:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / No modern electric car presents air-cooled battery packs apart from the Lexus UX 300e. If the Nissan Leaf, Renault ZOE, and Dacia Spring came to your mind, remember that they are not modern. The Leaf and the ZOE are basically the same for about a d...
2 Jul 2021, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Before anything else, we apologize to our readers for writing about the next-generation XC90. But, in our defense, we didn’t know the current one would be the last. Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo’s CEO, clarified that to Automotive News ...
2 Jul 2021, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We keep talking so much about electric passenger vehicles that electromobility in other forms sometimes goes unnoticed. That was the case for the Rosenbauer RT (Revolutionary Technology), presented in September 2020. According to the Austrian compa...
2 Jul 2021, 13:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Bloomberg anticipated that Porsche would have to recall Taycan units to prevent a 12V battery issue, the German automaker confirmed the information this July 2. The case involves “approximately 43,000” Taycan and Taycan Cross Turi...
2 Jul 2021, 09:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro’s start with Tesla was a bumpy one. He reported things on the Tesla Model 3 teardown that were bad, such as build quality, paint, and manufacturing issues. At the same time, he was fascinated with the innovations the company intro...
1 Jul 2021, 17:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We are still waiting for more information on the Tesla Model S fire that happened in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. Still, a lawyer from California tweeted that he represents the owner of that vehicle. Ben Meiselas works with Geragos & Geragos and sai...
1 Jul 2021, 14:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been hearing about Porsche Taycans suddenly losing power very often. Even NHTSA (National Traffic Highway Safety Administration) started the PE 21-013 investigation about that. According to Bloomberg, that loss of power will soon be correct...