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29 Jun 2021, 17:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla removed radar from the Model 3 and Model Y, IIHS and Consumer Reports respectively removed the sedan from their Top Safety Pick+ and Top Pick status (the Model Y does not have them yet). At the time, the own automaker informed that &ldqu...
29 Jun 2021, 16:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It may be just a coincidence, but Bloomberg just published an article wondering what regulators will do after NHTSA reached 30 investigations related to Tesla’s Autopilot. A little after that, the traffic safety agency released an order requi...
29 Jun 2021, 14:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Henrik Fisker seems to enjoy tweeting as much as some other company CEOs. He usually does that to update his followers about his company’s new EV. The Fisker Ocean promises to have a very affordable price in the US even without incentives. Sc...
29 Jun 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People who try to prevent or at least delay the shift to electromobility often claim that electric cars are dirtier than combustion-engined vehicles. That has been debunked multiple times, including when a consortium with companies such as Aston Ma...
29 Jun 2021, 09:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Dr. Joachim Doerr must be really proud of what Audi has done with the Premium Platform Electric architecture. Also known as PPE, it underpins the Porsche Taycan and the Audi e-tron GT. Doerr is the project lead for that incredible platform, but he ...
29 Jun 2021, 05:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We first told you about Gaussin a few days ago. The French company provided a fascinating video of its electric skateboard chassis for trucks up to class 8 tractors, which will offer fuel cells or batteries. Our impression was that the company was ...
29 Jun 2021, 04:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever anyone uses EPA range numbers to compare EVs, that becomes an issue. Since Car and Driver revealed that you could get different numbers depending on the measuring method you adopt, it became clear we need a more trustworthy standard. A...
28 Jun 2021, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When CATL first signed a deal with Tesla, it seemed the American EV maker just wanted access to LFP (lithium phosphate iron) batteries, but that it would not need them for too long: the contract would last only up to June 2022. On Tesla Battery...
28 Jun 2021, 16:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the best things about Sandy Munro’s teardown videos is that he does not stick with how the products are. The engineer also suggests how they could improve. With the ID.4, Munro had the help of Sabic to tell Volkswagen how it could have...
28 Jun 2021, 12:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On December 25, 2020, Pingwest published an article that said Tesla’s Giga Shanghai was a “Giga-Sweatshop.” Tesla sued Pingwest and was sued back by the Chinese outlet, who said it stood up to what it wrote. If Tesla follows the s...
28 Jun 2021, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla announced a recall for 285,520 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in China. It consists of an OTA (over-the-air) update to prevent the unwanted activation of the “active cruise control.” That could be the cause for multiple accidents re...
28 Jun 2021, 07:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Volvo and Polestar disclosed they would produce the Polestar 3 in Volvo’s Ridgeville plant in the US, that was more than just a new product announcement. In fact, Volvo also meant to alert that its American plant will become the first to...
27 Jun 2021, 06:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a feeling of relief when Hyundai said that a folded anode tab caused the Kona Electric fires. It was also great that Hyundai decided to replace all possibly defective battery packs, but a recent fire in Norway made those feelings vanish. ...
27 Jun 2021, 06:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As W. Edward Deming once said, “it is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” For everyone that thinks it is desirable, change is a must, but at what pace? This is what we asked Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport in Ba...
27 Jun 2021, 05:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Riversimple already disclosed it would not sell a single car. It would be just another automaker following a business model that gives evident signs of exhaustion if it did that. As much as the combustion engine was doomed for relying on a finite r...
27 Jun 2021, 04:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD has announced an impressive new platform at the Auto Shanghai 2021. Called e-platform 3.0, it will allow the company to sell an EV able to go from 0 to 100 kph (62 mph) in 2.9 seconds, have a range of more than 1,000 km (620 miles), and ch...
26 Jun 2021, 11:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the best features of the future Rivian R1T is how versatile it is. The electric pickup truck has loads of storage spaces, and one of them, the gear tunnel, even received one of the most impressive pieces of equipment ever created for any veh...
26 Jun 2021, 11:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro had already praised Ford for some of the solutions it gave to the Mustang Mach-E. He also criticized them, such as about its cooling system, which may eventually present leaks. In his latest video about the electric crossover teardown, ...
26 Jun 2021, 09:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has faced a lot of negative publicity after Zhang Yazhou, a Tesla Model 3 owner, jumped on top of a Model 3 at the Auto Shanghai 2021 to say it was an “Invisible Killer.” The company denied issues with sudden unintended accelerati...
26 Jun 2021, 08:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Audi already said that it would present its last vehicle with a combustion engine in 2026. Volkswagen is investing heavily in electric cars. The only company in the group that was yet to disclose its electric mobility plans was Skoda, but that came...