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10 Feb 2022, 16:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / SES has already challenged QuantumScape, Solid Power, and other companies pursuing solid-state cells by stating it does not believe they are feasible. The battery startup also presented the Apollo A samples and said it is working with GM and Hyunda...
10 Feb 2022, 15:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If Tesla had presented its plans for Giga Grünheide only once, it is not unlikely that it could have started manufacturing cars in Germany last summer, as it planned. However, multiple changes delayed a final permit for the factory and product...
10 Feb 2022, 13:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although smart was born in France, it is no longer there. Its factory in Hambach was sold to INEOS, which makes some now classify it as a German brand. Without its factory in Europe and with a Chinese stockholder, the company will now make its cars...
9 Feb 2022, 22:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nikola fell from grace when Hindenburg Research accused it and its founder, Trevor Milton, of lying to investors. Milton is no longer at the company. GM just didn’t say it quit its partnership with the startup to avoid admitting it did lousy ...
9 Feb 2022, 19:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla announced a recall related to its cars equipped with a heat pump. An initial relief for that to be finally addressed was rubbed out by disappointment with how the company tackled the issue. First, the EV maker treated it just like a problem w...
9 Feb 2022, 14:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is not very often that Tesla goes public about anything. When it does, that usually has to do with bad news for the company. This must be the first case in which Tesla anticipated the bad news: the EV maker talked about a lawsuit yet to be filed...
9 Feb 2022, 13:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we told you that the ID. BUZZ deliveries will only begin in September in Europe, we wondered if that had to do with the supply chain crisis. Automobilwoche confirmed that with surprising news: Volkswagen would have established a quota system f...
9 Feb 2022, 11:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Apart from using what they paid up to $12,000 for, Tesla owners defending FSD (Full Self-Driving) also claim that it will make driving safer when fully developed. On a video from Galileo Russell with another one of Tesla influencers, Omar Qazi, tha...
9 Feb 2022, 09:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lexus is slowly revealing its electric concept cars through Twitter. The Japanese luxury brand just presented its version of the electric Toyota Corolla there. Although the sedan is a nice machine – slated to be highly successful in China &nd...
8 Feb 2022, 19:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The original Volkswagen Bus was extraordinary for more than its popularity or the payload that was similar to its own weight. It was also an affordable vehicle. Although it was clear that the ID. BUZZ would not repeat this last feat, hearing that i...
8 Feb 2022, 17:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While we still wonder if the Volvo Embla will have massive castings, the Swedish carmaker already has more news to share, even if not on purpose. Automotive News learned that the company plans to manufacture a new EV in Ridgeville. Volvo’s ne...
8 Feb 2022, 16:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla promised in 2019 it would sell an electric pickup truck by 2021, and nothing has happened so far. Ford followed suit, and its F-150 Lightning should arrive in the next few months to join the Rivian R1T as an option with a battery pack. RAM ha...
8 Feb 2022, 14:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo’s future flagship will not be called XC90 anymore. As we told our readers in November 2021, it will very likely be named Embla. The Swedish carmaker may have given us the best glimpse yet on the new electric SUV when it announced a mass...
8 Feb 2022, 12:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In China, just some NEVs (new energy vehicles) make the cut to be exempt from the vehicle purchase tax. The MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) is the department that decides about that. In its latest list, it revealed that a rev...
7 Feb 2022, 23:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Alfa Romeo Tonale was not supposed to surprise anyone after the concept was revealed in March 2019. Yet, it did. The new compact SUV should premiere on February 8, 2022, but Stellantis allowed a video to leak. Thanks to the guys from Autogaleri...
7 Feb 2022, 19:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In any discussion about autonomous cars, you may have already heard about Level 2, 3, 4, and 5. They refer to the classifications made by SAE J3016, a document that tried to establish what autonomous-driving cars are expected to do. Philip Koopman ...
7 Feb 2022, 16:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When DS presented the E-TENSE concept back in February 2016, we really hoped the company would create a production version, even if in a minimal series. It didn’t, but we got to hear about the concept again after DS presented the E-TENSE Perf...
7 Feb 2022, 11:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We still need to know a lot more about the Amazon delivery vans Rivian has developed. Thankfully, the own company provided more details in its IPO documents, but it took a tweet from Reilly Brennan to discover them. Thanks to him, we now know that ...
6 Feb 2022, 10:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Larry Campbell bought his Model S in September 2016. After his wife tried to pick up their kids at school on October 8, 2021, the car simply stopped working. Tesla then told Campbell he would have to spend HK$171,000 ($21,956 at the current exchang...
5 Feb 2022, 22:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If the Renault ZOE recall was not enough, another French brand has a fire risk related to batteries in electric cars. Stellantis warned European authorities that the Peugeot e-208 and e-2008 might catch fire, but it did not disclose which battery c...