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12 Sep 2023, 15:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People have some stereotypes about what car customers like to purchase around the world. Americans are said to love land yachts. Europeans would prefer more rational stuff, such as compact vehicles. When they get more emotional, light sports cars s...
11 Sep 2023, 16:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis wants all its brands to make the best possible use of the eCMP and CMP architectures. Predictably, their primary focus is on SUVs, which sell at higher volumes and also can have higher price tags, everything a carmaker wants to hear. Aft...
11 Sep 2023, 08:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mercedes-Benz confirmed that the Concept CLA Class would adopt several technical solutions from the Vision EQXX, the first thing that got me thinking was: Will it also ditch liquid cooling in favor of air cooling for the battery pack? Although...
8 Sep 2023, 15:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis had revealed only a few things about the 3008 successor until a few hours ago. It disclosed it would be the first vehicle to present the STLA Medium platform, an architecture it talked a bit more about in July. That changed with the rele...
7 Sep 2023, 13:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Recurrent recently disclosed that fast charging shows "no statistically significant difference in range degradation." Several people took that as a free pass for frequently submitting battery packs to that charging process, which led Stor...
6 Sep 2023, 16:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have been following the saga of the Austin-made Model Y with a cracked front casting, it has just reached a new chapter. I have already told my readers when it started and how the depth of the crack was confirmed. Until very recently, the Mo...
4 Sep 2023, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Polestar launched its design context in July 2022 with a very open proposition: performance. The winner project was supposed to become a 1:1 scale model that would be presented at Auto Shanghai 2023, which happened last April. The Swedish brand di...
4 Sep 2023, 10:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In May 2022, I wrote about how nice it would be if Renault manufactured a vehicle like the Scenic Vision concept it had just introduced. That vehicle made a lot of sense: it had a relatively small battery pack with 40 kWh and a fuel cell as a range...
2 Sep 2023, 11:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It sucks to cover design concepts. The companies that present them usually make long descriptions of curves, surfaces, and proportions that the pictures alone would be more than enough to check. Thankfully, BMW avoided that with the Vision Neue Kla...
2 Sep 2023, 09:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla recently reduced the price of Model 3 units in its inventories by $5,500. That was a clear sign that it was preparing to reveal Project Highland, the long-overdue restyling of its most affordable car. Some headlines highlighted the 421-mile (...
1 Sep 2023, 22:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Costas Lakafossis contacted me about a week after the Wall Street Journal released bombastic news. The newspaper published on August 9 a video of a 2019 Tesla Model X on Autopilot crashing against an emergency vehicle. The engineer and accident inv...
31 Aug 2023, 20:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I've shared here my experience when I sold my 2017 BMW 225xe and bought a 2002 Opel Zafira. Although my PHEV had a ridiculous electric range, I confess I miss plugging it and having it ready to drive. Kevin Williams' review of the new Toy...
31 Aug 2023, 15:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I started covering electric cars in general and Tesla in particular, people loved the brand. They still praised the premium experience in Tesla Service Centers, the extra mile the staff would go to satisfy customers, and how the brand's b...
31 Aug 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The thing with deadlines is that they get shorter the more we talk about them. When I first started writing about the Fisker Personal Electric Automotive Revolution – PEAR, in short – it was four years from production lines. Now that th...
30 Aug 2023, 18:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Alfa Romeo promised it would create a supercar, and we had the official confirmation on August 30. The Italian icon decided to give the 1967 33 Stradale a modern interpretation. Curiously, it follows the same steps as Totem Automobili, the company ...
30 Aug 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters reminded us that Tesla will face two crucial lawsuits in September and October. Both arise from deaths that occurred while Autopilot was active. The whole legal discussion they will bring is fundamental not only to the future of Autopilot a...
28 Aug 2023, 18:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Battery electric vehicle (BEV) advocates rushed to absolve them of wrongdoing after Automobilwoche declared they had nothing to do with the fire that destroyed the Fremantle Highway. Their story is based on something published by Automotive Logisti...
26 Aug 2023, 19:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first told my readers about an Austin-made Tesla Model Y with a cracked front casting, the owner had yet to confirm how serious the problem was. It did not take long: apart from using a flashlight and a mechanic pick to show it affected more...
25 Aug 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever I discover a new problem with a Tesla, investors and advocates argue that it is anecdotal evidence. Trying to explain that early cases could lead to others never helped. Yet, it was always what followed. This is the first story I write in ...
25 Aug 2023, 09:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I was shocked after seeing the headlines about Tesla suing two whistleblowers. That was the BEV maker's answer to what is now more popularly known as Tesla Files. Most of them said the company was suing former employees who caused a data leak ...