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22 Feb 2022, 22:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we told our readers that SES would open a subsidiary in South Korea because of its clients there, we said it would probably create an SES Japan due to Honda. QuantumScape must have heard us: it anticipated its competitor and established an R&a...
22 Feb 2022, 19:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lucid has unconventionally released its first recall. Usually, customers are warned about safety defects by NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). In this case, Bloomberg was able to break the news after seeing the email message on...
22 Feb 2022, 15:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Michael Lohscheller brought Opel back to profitability, which is something GM tried to do for years to no avail. He then joined VinFast with the mission to expand the Vietnamese carmaker’s presence to the U.S. and Europe but left after only f...
22 Feb 2022, 13:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ask any car enthusiast what Porsche is, and all of them will have an answer. Ask even those who do not care about cars, and there’s a good chance they’ll also know what that name represents. However, Porsche SE is not the company that m...
22 Feb 2022, 01:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Great articles sometimes emerge when from details that go unnoticed by most other journalists. They are sometimes in a sentence, an executive you get to talk to, and even in a picture released by the manufacturer. This is how our colleagues from Ca...
21 Feb 2022, 23:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Paul Petrunia loves his 2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD, taking part in some Tesla groups on Facebook to discuss it. He was pretty happy about his car, apart from a steep range loss. On December 14, 2021, he also joined the group of Model 3 owner...
21 Feb 2022, 19:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Herbert Diess now states that Volkswagen brought the Bus back to life with the ID. BUZZ because it was the most emotional vehicle the brand ever created. Beetle fans remind him every day that he may be mistaken, including in a recent Q&A sessio...
21 Feb 2022, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / American customers that were warned about their cars being in the cargo ship that caught fire now have the confirmation these vehicles are gone. According to João Mendes Cabeças, the fire is fading. The Portuguese Navy captain explain...
21 Feb 2022, 11:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After two ID. BUZZ prototypes drove to Barcelona for what Volkswagen called Covered Drives, we learned that there were way more cars all around Europe for these test drives. The reviews were all published at the same time thanks to the embargo lift...
20 Feb 2022, 21:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has long sold the idea that it is the company that “has done more for sustainability.” It did so very recently while trying to bash the California DFEH (Department of Fair Employment and Housing) for their “systemic racism&r...
20 Feb 2022, 20:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota has insisted on this for quite a while already. Renault seems to have jumped on the same train with its latest concept car. It does not matter who proposes to burn hydrogen on a combustion engine: rest assured this is a desperate measure to ...
20 Feb 2022, 18:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On February 18, Tesla tweeted that it had produced its one millionth 4680 in January. The picture presents the factory in which these cells are being made, on Kato Road, and multiple Tesla workers in front of it. Drew Baglino, Tesla’s senior ...
19 Feb 2022, 19:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When one thinks of electric cars, the first thing that comes to mind is energy efficiency. In other words, traveling further with spending fewer resources – something that Earth Overshoot Day would thank us for. All current electric cars head...
19 Feb 2022, 16:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis is making the most of “synergy” among its brands. The latest on that relates to the Alfa Romeo Tonale. Recently presented, the compact SUV was already filmed at the Pomigliano d'Arco factory in its Dodge version. That is...
19 Feb 2022, 11:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not often that cargo ships catch fire in the middle of the ocean. That was the unfortunate fate of Felicity Ace, a 200-meter-long (656-foot-long) vessel that was carrying 3,965 cars from the Volkswagen group to the U.S. While we still don&rsq...
18 Feb 2022, 22:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The two Nikola Tre FCEV alpha prototypes made their first journey driving 350 miles (563 kilometers) on a tank of hydrogen, as autoevolution readers have known since January 28. What they were still waiting to learn was how far the production vehic...
18 Feb 2022, 13:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It was more than expected that Tesla vehicles made in China also presented the heat pump issue that Transport Canada is investigating. As we mentioned before, a Model 3 sold in Finland and produced in the Asian country also lost heating all of a su...
18 Feb 2022, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz decided to do the right thing to its Chinese customers that complained about issues with the EQC. After 68 of them made a public complaint about a motor flaw, the German company announced it would recall 10,104 cars due to that proble...
18 Feb 2022, 08:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports does not use its Overall Score only to rate its top picks when it comes to cars. The consumer organization also ranks the brands. In 2021, Mazda was the best one, but it lost its place to Subaru in 2022. The last one is Jeep, but t...
17 Feb 2022, 22:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape does not seem to feel pressed with the progress of its competitors. SES said it delivered A samples of its cell to automakers, and the company said it plans to do the same… in 2022. For the solid-state cell startup, being able t...