Unsustainable $25,000 BEVs: The Push for Them Totally Misses the Point
29 Oct 2023, 14:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / And I do not mean solely how long these vehicles will last, but also their repairability, the pressure they could cause on fast chargers, and a long etcetera.
I Can't Be Alone in Thinking Elon Musk Has Become a Liability for Tesla
29 Oct 2023, 07:20 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / I mean, it's hard not to when your main concerns are picking fights with people on Twitter.com and avoiding fights in cages with fellow billionaires
JMS, Thank You for Giving Us Mazda's Iconic SP and Honda's Prelude, I Love Both
28 Oct 2023, 15:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Unfortunately, I have no idea if Honda and Mazda intend to put these prototypes into series production or if they are just image vectors
Tesla Profits: Offering Discounts Made No Financial Sense, So What's the Justification?
25 Oct 2023, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The conclusion of this series about Tesla numbers aims to investigate what lies beneath the superficial explanations for the company's price cuts.
California DMV Might Have Nailed the Coffin for Cruise's Robotaxi Service
25 Oct 2023, 09:51 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / California DMV suspended the Cruise robotaxi service in San Francisco, dealing a potentially lethal blow to GM's fledgling autonomous driving startup
You'll Be "Shocked" To Know Some Things Seem Amiss With Cybertruck's Bullet Test
23 Oct 2023, 10:38 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The spraying of bullets at the side of a Cybertruck experiment brings more questions than answers, with the first being a very straightforward "why?"
Elon Musk Suggesting the Cybertruck is Bulletproof Is Reckless (and Nothing New)
23 Oct 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / For a man who allegedly dictated a disclaimer that a Model X was driving itself in a 2016 video, this is no surprise (unfortunately).
Dream Time: Would You Buy an Ioniq N Coupe, an Electric LFA, or a Four-Seat Bugatti EV?
22 Oct 2023, 15:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This week was quite odd and devoid of major/interesting novelties as automakers prepare for Tokyo's JMS and North America's Los Angeles Auto Show
Five Reasons To Ditch the Dacia Spring for a Citroen E-C3, and the One Reason Why I Won't
22 Oct 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It was just a matter of time for the most affordable electric car in Europe to be challenged by new competitors. But the Spring is still a good value EV
I Think JAMA Did a Good Thing Retconning Tokyo's Motor Show Into a Japan Mobility Show
21 Oct 2023, 15:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Hosted by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), a legendary biennial auto show is held during the fall at the Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Will Tesla Ever Learn? New FSD Beta Clip, Same Old Questionable Antics
19 Oct 2023, 14:36 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Musk's company sure is making it hard for those who feel the FSD Beta can become a public hazard in the hands of the less responsible to like it
ICE for REx: Mazda Missed Chance to Establish Rotary Engines as Range Extender Standard
18 Oct 2023, 09:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Developing a new engine concept to make it more efficient than the current ones was a good call, but Mazda just did not deliver many advantages with it.
EV Charging Could Bring Power Grids to Their Knees, Is Nuclear Energy the Answer?
16 Oct 2023, 02:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why roads choked with electric cars might bode well for nuclear energy, we need to understand just how much power a fully-EV grid would require.
Tesla Model 3 and Y Beware: Legacy Automakers Are Biting Back… Soon
15 Oct 2023, 15:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Tesla is everyone's darling if you treasure the novel EV lifestyle, and while its models and policies may not be for everyone, they're an example to follow
Who's Little, Not So Cute, and Afraid of the Tesla Boogeyman? Why, It's the BMW iX2!
14 Oct 2023, 15:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Europe is getting a quartet of powertrain options from the second-generation BMW X2, including the all-new iX2 variant, and Australia already knows the MSRPs
Will Stockholm, the First City To Ban Both Gasoline and Diesel Cars, Set a Global Trend?
14 Oct 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Sweden's capital, Greta Thunberg's hometown, intends to impose a first-of-its-kind ban starting in 2025. That sounds like a recipe for making ICE cars futile
Forget The Tesla Model 2, How About a Tesla Model 1?
13 Oct 2023, 16:34 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Elon Musk has been teasing a more mainstream, less expensive Tesla for years, but now it seems it can't come soon enough.
Can You Really Say From Which Country a Car Company Is Anymore?
11 Oct 2023, 07:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Is Polestar really Swedish? What about Lotus being British? Is Tesla American? These questions show how the fictions we use are fragile.
An Ode to the Unsung Heroes of the Internal Combustion Engine, the Horses
10 Oct 2023, 16:39 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / As we transition toward an all-electric future, the most die-hard ICE fans will be left without their object of infatuation
BEV Price Reductions Should Condemn the Electrification Shift
10 Oct 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People fail to see that these movements will make unprofitable cars even more of a bottomless pit for investments. Sane companies will give up before they die.