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5 Dec 2023, 09:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ryan Thomas was a Tesla supporter long before he purchased his used 2021 Model 3 RWD with 15,000 miles on March 29, 2022. He said his battery electric vehicle (BEV) has a promised EPA range of 272 miles, which it never achieved. The good thing was ...
27 Nov 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters wrote a demolishing story about Tesla Insurance. The service that would be "revolutionary" and "vastly better" proved to be much worse than what more traditional insurers offer. As Zack Kirkhorn said when he was still Te...
22 Nov 2023, 12:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla's struggles with insurance are not new. After the "legacy" companies in charge of that started asking very high premiums to protect these battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the American automaker decided to have its own insuranc...
21 Nov 2023, 09:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The ultimate goal of luxury is peace of mind. Those who think it is about ostentation and possessions may eventually realize that they were after a stress-free life – or eventually one with the least possible amount of concerns. Lucid should ...
20 Nov 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit created the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel and helped create the Electrified Garage, an independent repair shop network for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). His first videos were about a Mode S he repaired on his own and which we now kn...
16 Nov 2023, 22:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / All European countries that I am aware of try to make sure used cars are in good condition to keep on the road. This is why they promote regular inspections, which varies from country to country. The Tesla Model 3 has just started going through the...
16 Nov 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Renault made waves with its Capital Market Day for Ampere, even in countries where it does not sell vehicles. Everybody fell in love with the future Twingo, a car that just celebrated 30 years of a really innovative proposal. The fourth generation ...
14 Nov 2023, 21:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Any reader who follows Tesla more closely knows the company follows the motto "deliver now, fix later." This strategy led Tesla Service Centers to get crowded, and it is all due to the company's aversion to proper testing. The batter...
11 Nov 2023, 11:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest Tesla Files article from Handelsblatt made a bell ring in my mind. Lukasz Krupski's story is something I have heard before from several other people, most of them employees who thought Tesla would make a difference in the world. Ano...
10 Nov 2023, 07:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not unusual that Tesla advocates will often inadvertently reveal some of the company's weaknesses. The video in which Galileo Russell and Omar Qazi tried to show Full Self-Driving (FSD) improvements and prevented it from hitting a cyclis...
9 Nov 2023, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People often hear that electric vehicles are not more prone to fires than those powered by internal combustion engines (ICE). As much as that is still debatable, it is not the main reason for concern. When a battery pack catches fire, the real prob...
9 Nov 2023, 07:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Files have already revealed several issues with the battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker. Learning how things got to this point is proving to be even more instructive than the effects themselves. Lukasz Krupski went public and told Handel...
8 Nov 2023, 18:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 18, Richard Magno de Paula photographed and filmed seven units of the Fiat Strada in a car hauler on A12, close to the Vasco da Gama bridge in Portugal. The Brazilian magazine Quatro Rodas checked with its sources and learned that the su...
7 Nov 2023, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Files have revealed how poorly the battery electric vehicle maker protects its employees' and customers' personal data. It also showed how strategic files, such as those related to the Cybertruck development, were readily availa...
6 Nov 2023, 20:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The slow(ing) sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) made the blogs that defend them react. Some of them argue that this is not on the product but rather on the companies that fail to deliver what people want at the prices they want to pay. The o...
3 Nov 2023, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If nothing postpones its official deliveries, we should see the first owners of the Tesla Cybertruck present themselves on November 30. Despite that, the electric pickup truck is showing off so often that we already know many of its flaws. For a ve...
2 Nov 2023, 21:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Not that long ago, anyone willing to buy a car could go to automakers' websites and have a look at the technical specifications of anything that they considered enticing. Apart from a few honorable exceptions, that is no longer possible. The o...
31 Oct 2023, 10:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After QuantumScape revealed its cells beat its commercial targets, StoreDot wanted to share some good news as well. According to the Israeli battery startup, its extreme fast charging (XFC) cells have endured 1,000 cycles of fast charging without p...
30 Oct 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I started writing about $25,000 (or €25,000) battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and noticed I had more to say than that first attempt would allow. At that point, it was essential to explain why electric cars eventually sold for that amount would...
30 Oct 2023, 20:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Mazda’s attempt to create the perfect range extender, I mentioned I wanted to examine the ideas that seem to be closer to that goal. Unfortunately, the Japanese company’s attempt with the MX-30 R-EV failed, giving us ...