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28 Feb 2022, 13:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In August 2021, we told our readers that Rivian wanted to have a factory in Europe and was studying offers from the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A recent rumor suggests that the decision was probably made, even if things will start more modest...
28 Feb 2022, 10:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / BYD promised to present more than ten new models in 2022 alone. We already know of a convertible and a station wagon based on the Han for European markets, but there is more. The Chinese carmaker revealed the first official sketches of a concept ba...
27 Feb 2022, 23:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Julius Caesar divorced Pompeia, he said that Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion. Little did he know that virtue signaling was set to become a modern plague. Some people think it is more important to seem concerned with the world&rsq...
27 Feb 2022, 21:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When April Gillmore told us that her Tesla Model 3 Performance came without the brake pad on the left rear wheel, some Tesla advocates tried to dismiss that from being true. Confronted with the evidence, their excuse was that it was anecdotal evide...
27 Feb 2022, 19:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Since electric cars with massive battery packs emerged, people ask where we will get enough cells for them. It was already a concern before a pandemic, a semiconductor shortage, and Vladimir Putin dragging Russia into a senseless invasion against U...
27 Feb 2022, 14:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pete Gruber has been saying for quite a while that the original Tesla Roadster will become collectible. Although they are not that old, they are rare and are the ones that made Tesla a $1 trillion company – now $800 billion, but still droppin...
26 Feb 2022, 18:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo has been revealing its plans for the future explicitly and also inadvertently. The Swedish carmaker said it would only produce electric cars by 2030. What it did not tell is how it will get there, but Automotive News is doing great work at di...
25 Feb 2022, 20:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we last spoke about the Model D, it was clear that this vehicle would be extreme. We thought it would be a statement against the lack of battery pack replacement policies, like the ICE-T (Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla) was. As the project ...
25 Feb 2022, 15:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 6, 2021, Elon Musk asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his shares to pay taxes. On November 5, his brother Kimbal sold $109 million in stock. The SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) allegedly d...
24 Feb 2022, 23:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We already know that the two Nikola Tre FCEVs are being tested by AB Inbev, more widely known in the U.S. by its old name, Anheuser-Busch. We also know that the fuel cell truck should have a range of more than 500 miles with full hydrogen tanks. Fo...
24 Feb 2022, 22:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is impossible to talk about Faraday Future and not remember its bumpy start. First, it said it would build a $1-billion factory in Nevada but ended up leasing an old Pirelli factory in Hanford, California. That’s where Faraday Future annou...
24 Feb 2022, 16:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Tesla backed away from developing an affordable EV for having too much on its plate, it seemed that Volkswagen would have a massive advantage with its affordable electric car. Anticipated by the ID. LIFE concept, the ID.1 (or ID.2) would be a...
24 Feb 2022, 12:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we broke the news about a new DeLorean, we also mentioned that this car could be called EVolved. We later also discovered that two executives that were previously with Karma are now with DeLorean Motors Reimagined. Car and Driver added another...
24 Feb 2022, 09:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already written that Toyota is waiting for the right cells to sell an electric car. We also argued that Tesla’s example with ternary battery packs might not be helping clean mobility as much as its advocates claim. Toyota’s stra...
23 Feb 2022, 19:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On February 18, we told our readers some of the plans Nikola had for the Tre FCEV and also for hydrogen distribution. Jason Roycht shared that the company intended “to launch several public and private fueling stations across southern Califor...
23 Feb 2022, 17:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Bloomberg broke the news about Lucid Air’s first recall on February 22. Despite that, we still wanted to learn more about the issue. Thanks to the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), we now know exactly what the front damp...
23 Feb 2022, 14:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis is pretty happy with its first full year’s financial results. The company that was created with the merger of PSA and FCA had an adjusted operating profit of 11.8%. The goal was to reach 10% if the international health crisis did n...
23 Feb 2022, 11:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Kevin Paffrath has an investment website that made him quite popular. He shares tips to get rich on YouTube and Twitter, some of which must have helped him buy a Lucid Air Dream Edition costing “over $169,000.” On February 22, he tweete...
23 Feb 2022, 10:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Building anything without carbon emissions is impossible. There will always be some release of it while we are still alive. After all, we have organic bodies. When we talk about carbon zero, it means not to release the carbon stored in fossil fuels...
23 Feb 2022, 00:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Marcellous Cage prefers to identify as Marc. After working in Afghanistan as a construction project manager and getting injured there, he returned to the US and worked for "over a decade" in the construction industry. Tesla liked his work...