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21 Jun 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Nio ET7 has multiple things to celebrate: a range of up to 700 km with the 100 kWh battery pack, a proven battery swap system that Norwegians will soon begin to evaluate, and soon a 150 kWh battery pack. If that was not enough, the electric sed...
21 Jun 2021, 12:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People have strong feelings about unions, either pro or against them. But, whatever you think about them, they’re legal, and workers have the capacity to organize themselves in unions if so they wish. A short documentary about Richard Ortiz s...
21 Jun 2021, 07:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota had to present the 2022 Tundra in the U.S. after some images of the pickup truck leaked online. Some customers loved it, and some loathed it. What if they were given an alternative with the same front face as the 2022 Toyota Land Cruiser? To...
19 Jun 2021, 10:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is frequently said that Tesla has a lead in electric vehicles, but Kent Bovellan begs to disagree. In a group interview in which Paultan.org was present, the chief engineer of the SEA (Sustainable Experience Architecture) said that there are onl...
18 Jun 2021, 17:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If it were up to the market to decide when electric vehicles should be adopted, we would probably burn the last drop of oil on the planet and some synthetic replacement for decades ahead. When governments started pushing electric mobility, they...
18 Jun 2021, 08:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla committed to calling its German factory Giga Berlin-Brandenburg and shortened it to Giga Berlin – which is not correct. The plant is in Grünheide, which is why we call it that way. It has changed its plans for it so many times it n...
18 Jun 2021, 08:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SK Innovation managed to escape from a U.S. ban to pull off something extraordinary. One of the cars it plans to power, the Ford F-150 Lightning, will receive the most powerful lithium-ion battery to date. Called NCM9, it has a proportion of nickel...
18 Jun 2021, 07:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Canoo changed a lot in the last few months. It was not supposed to sell its cars, applying circular economy principles to its products, but that did not last. Its new CEO, Tony Aquila, decided it will sell its EVs like almost everyone else. To prod...
17 Jun 2021, 16:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the US presidential campaign in 1992, James Carville coined a sentence that probably gave Bill Clinton the victory. “It’s the economy, stupid!” meant that anyone able to point out the country’s economic issues and present...
17 Jun 2021, 16:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker and Magna have finally signed a binding manufacturing agreement for the Ocean. The electric SUV’s production even has a precise date for starting: November 17, 2022. About one year before that, it will make its official public premiere...
17 Jun 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the Mazda MX-30 was revealed, it did not make sense. It was supposed to be the company’s first dedicated electric vehicle, but it had a tiny battery pack and a limited range. Later, Mazda revealed a hybrid version of the car with a 2-lit...
17 Jun 2021, 10:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / T&E (Transport & Environment) is an organization trying to speed up clean transportation. It recently called the bluff on plug-in hybrids – they would just masquerade gas-guzzlers in many cases, according to T&E – and said E...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo and Volkswagen were appointed by Transport & Environment as the only major automakers ready to make the switch to EVs. Another proof of that is Volvo’s investment in its Ridgeville plant in South Carolina. Apart from producing t...
16 Jun 2021, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you look at the Hyundai Kona Electric above, you will not see anything extraordinary about it apart from the paint job. It points out what really makes it a special car: where the electricity that powers it comes from. This is the S-Poo-V Number...
16 Jun 2021, 08:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SpaceX did extraordinary things when it comes to rocket launching and cost-cutting with aerospace technology. Even so, it is not entitled to close public roads in Boca Chica with private security guards. This is what the Cameron County District Att...
16 Jun 2021, 08:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the weirdest things about the electric car world is that all people and companies in that segment pledge to defend cleaner transportation and fight climate change. Yet, you’ll see that they have divided into different teams: those...
15 Jun 2021, 19:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Herbert Diess seems to be really enjoying his Twitter experience. The Volkswagen Group CEO has already teased fuel cell vehicles and was challenged by James Glickenhaus to prove his point on the Baja 1000. His latest tweet teases Elon Musk about Vo...
15 Jun 2021, 17:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / So far, only BMW and Ford were able to bet on Solid Power as a strong contender in the solid-state battery race. However, anyone will soon manage to do the same by buying its shares. The startup will be traded at NASDAQ under the SLDP sticker thank...
15 Jun 2021, 12:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla and Elon Musk said that Giga Grünheide would start to operate on July 1, 2021. With the issues with the construction permits and the 4680 batteries – which would be crucial to cars made in Germany – Tesla would have deci...
15 Jun 2021, 07:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You are watching new and more compelling electric vehicles hit the market. But, if you think it is still up to debate whether they will take over or not, we have sad news: that is not up for discussion anymore. Considering how the automotive indust...