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17 Feb 2022, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Consumer Reports released its 10 Top Picks of 2022 list, and it has only one electric car. If you thought it belonged to a famous EV maker, sorry to disappoint you: the privilege belongs to Ford and the Mustang Mach-E. To be on this list, the vehic...
17 Feb 2022, 14:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electric cars cannot abuse energy consumption. Although they accelerate in extraordinary times, doing that often will kill range because battery packs cannot store that much energy. That said, a convertible electric sports car is almost impossible ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / All 354 people formally complaining about phantom braking in Tesla vehicles to NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) may now celebrate: the agency opened a PE (Preliminary Evaluation) about the problem. According to the PE 22-002 d...
17 Feb 2022, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera released the video of a drag race with very little information apart from the vehicles we can (barely) see in the challenge. There’s a Tesla Model 3, an Audi R8, and two Aptera prototypes: the Aptera Noir alpha vehicle and an unidentif...
16 Feb 2022, 19:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Now that Tesla and Ignacio Socorro are being sued for the deaths of Nicholas Gabriel Garcia, 20, and Jazmin G. Alcala, 19, we were expecting new facts to emerge only at the judgment. That is not the case. Ian Linder Sheldon gave WPLG Local 10 an in...
15 Feb 2022, 23:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When GM revealed that the new Equinox would be an electric crossover costing around $30,000, many people declared that the Bolt EV was dead. Its production never restarted, which they interpreted as something permanent. GM denied that was the case ...
15 Feb 2022, 20:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fisker announced it is already accepting pre-orders for a vehicle that nobody knows apart from the company’s and Foxconn’s engineers and designers. The closer we could get to the PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution) is that it...
15 Feb 2022, 13:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Ethan Robertson shot the video below for the Wheelsboy YouTube channel, BYD had not yet disclosed it would sell the Yuan Plus in Australia as the Atto 3. This is probably the name it will have in other foreign markets when it reaches them. Reg...
15 Feb 2022, 10:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A crash in Coral Gables involving a Tesla Model 3 killed two people on September 13, 2021. The strange circumstances made NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigate it with a team. Thanks to a lawsuit, we now know the victims’ na...
14 Feb 2022, 15:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The tweet DeLorean Motor Company published was just the beginning of what promises to be one of the most exciting stories in the last few months. We thought it would be just the people from the Texan company finally getting their cars to be sold. W...
14 Feb 2022, 15:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we told you about the rumors that Tesla could establish a new Chinese factory in Shenyang, we made it clear that it did not make much sense considering the investments to expand capacity at Giga Shanghai. Tesla got in touch with Chinese media ...
14 Feb 2022, 11:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / John DeLorean may not have seen the automaker with his name remain in business, but the company that bought its assets and trademarks intends to do so. The Texan business that is now DeLorean Motor Company has promised to bring back the DMC 12 for ...
14 Feb 2022, 10:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Super Bowl demonstrated that simple lines could have very clear targets. Take the Polestar 2 ad there. It said “no dieselgate,” “no “dirty secrets,” “no empty promises,” and “no shortcuts,” Any...
13 Feb 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla recently announced investments to expand the production at Giga Shanghai from 450,000 vehicles per year to up to 1.5 million units annually. That would be enough for the company to expand exports to other countries and still meet the demand i...
11 Feb 2022, 22:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On September 23, 2021, we told our readers of the first crash involving a Rivian R1T on public roads. Everything happened near the company’s office in Irvine, California. If we were Rivian, we’d move from Irvine or ask a priest to bless...
11 Feb 2022, 20:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We were still waiting for Renault to contact us about the ZOE battery pack recall when a second recall warning emerged. Instead of Renault Portugal, the alert came from the carmaker’s headquarters in France, but multiple aspects of the new re...
11 Feb 2022, 16:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nikola officially confirmed that its two Tre FCEV alpha prototypes are with Biagi Bros. Doing that indirectly with official pictures would have been enough for us. Still, Nikola went a little further and revealed that the logistics company is actua...
11 Feb 2022, 14:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles) face a lot of criticism for their energy efficiency. Automotive designers and engineers may hate them for their hydrogen tanks, which occupy precious space. To tackle that, BMW, Bosch, TesTneT Engineering GmbH, a...
11 Feb 2022, 11:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At first, Giga Austin seemed to be related mainly to expanding Tesla’s operations in the U.S. When COVID-19 restrictions struck Alameda County, it became clear that the reasons could go beyond productivity gains. In its lawsuit against Tesla ...
10 Feb 2022, 23:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Christian von Koenigsegg managed to create a respected hypercar brand right from its first car, the CC8S, presented in 2002. Years later, the man that came up with new solutions for the combustion engine showed interesting electric drivetrain optio...