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29 Oct 2023, 14:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nissan said at the Japan Mobility Show that it wanted to develop more affordable electric cars. The Volkswagen Group is working on that with the MEB Lite and all the ID. 2all siblings that it will spawn. Their goal is to cost around €25,000 an...
28 Oct 2023, 17:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Fiat Strada is also known as the RAM 700. It is selling in buckets in Brazil and will soon reach Mexico as well. The idea of a tiny cargo carrier that can transport more stuff than a GMC Hummer EV probably rang a bell at Stellantis, which decid...
27 Oct 2023, 19:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People repeat endlessly that Tesla vehicles are cheaper to live with. They also praised the price cuts as proof that the company was a battery electric vehicle (BEV) champion that would offer them to the masses. Hertz killed these two myths with a ...
26 Oct 2023, 19:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Leapmotor. Talk about anywhere but China and people will look at you with a massive question mark on their faces. Mention it in China, and most people will tell you about the C11 and how the company is selling reasonably well there. That starts to ...
26 Oct 2023, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Those who follow QuantumScape are certainly familiar with the company's commercial target. The solid-state platform startup wants to ensure its cells can reach 800 cycles while retaining at least 80% capacity. After it shipped its A0 24-layer ...
25 Oct 2023, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla's discounts have been bugging me since they started. I love the idea of having cheaper cars, but I can only respect things that make sense. The battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker's strategy doesn't. When the Q3 2023 numbers g...
24 Oct 2023, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In this Tesla Profits series, I have already shown how much money the battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker lost with its discounts. In an unrealistically beneficial calculation, it was $7.77 billion. The first hypothesis the company's advocate...
23 Oct 2023, 08:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the explanations Tesla advocates find to justify why the company is cutting prices is that the company was allegedly so efficient in slashing costs that it now can share that with customers. The goal would be to "save the world" by...
23 Oct 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk is famous for being controversial about all kinds of matters. Honestly, that should matter only to those who take him seriously or give him more relevance than he truly has. That changes substantially when it affects Tesla customers'...
21 Oct 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 20, I made an exercise to understand the profits Tesla's earning reports suggested the company had. At that point, they made no sense at all. With the release of the Q3 2023 results, I decided to repeat these calculations in a more ela...
19 Oct 2023, 09:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BMS_u029 error code Facebook group recently reached 1,000 members. Luckily, it seems to be growing more due to the interest that the subject raised than due to new cases. Despite that, the stories of those affected never cease to disappoint reg...
18 Oct 2023, 09:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people defend that internal combustion engines (ICEs) still have a role to play in personal transportation, they are correct. Having an electric motor driving the wheels does not necessarily require a massive battery pack, and a lot of people ...
14 Oct 2023, 23:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hydrogen in transportation lives the chicken-or-egg paradox. Companies do not invest in producing this gas for automotive use because there is not enough demand. At the same time, automakers do not put that much money into fuel cells because people...
13 Oct 2023, 16:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stern covered how Giga Grünheide poses a risk to the environment and its employees in a series of articles that now look like just the beginning. The German magazine's reports made waves in the country and unleashed reactions from politic...
12 Oct 2023, 23:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota seems resolute in making battery electric vehicles (BEVs) after it achieved a breakthrough in its quest to make solid-state batteries (SSB). This appears to be what changed the company's strategy around electrification. Curiously, one o...
12 Oct 2023, 09:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 6, a car hauler with 6 Tesla Model Ys faced a fire that destroyed all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Turkey. On the same day, another blaze destroyed 14 cars at the Chambéry Tesla Service Center in France. Although there is a...
11 Oct 2023, 07:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote in July about how money bears no passport, I made a question that stood there, waiting to be answered. Is Stellantis French? Or is it Italian? Perhaps American, considering it owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and RAM… I left it there...
10 Oct 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian admitted during its Q3 earnings report that it loses around $33,000 per vehicle it sells. RJ Scaringe now wants to cut production costs by $40,000, which would give the company a $7,000 profit per unit. This report from the Wall Street Journ...
8 Oct 2023, 18:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first saw the pictures of the Lynk & Co Zero Concept three years ago, I thought the car was stunning. It was obvious that it deserved to reach production lines, which it did in a rather surprising way. When I learned I would have the cha...
7 Oct 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Most car buyers look at modern cars as if they worked like old ones. Nothing is further from the truth, especially when you talk about door handles. Battery electric cars were the first ones to ditch a mechanical connection between them and the loc...