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5 Feb 2022, 21:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some automakers discover their EVs have battery pack issues when fires start to happen. Others try to conceal them. Fortunately, some others announce recalls before customers are even aware that they can happen. This is what Renault seems to have d...
5 Feb 2022, 10:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla FSD has already experienced two recalls. Yet, Tesla investors insist that it is a safe system with no crashes, despite the one we reported on November 11, 2021. Perhaps other people never cared to report them, but this is no longer valid. We ...
4 Feb 2022, 20:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The GMA (Gordon Murray Automotive) T.33 was presented on January 27. We already knew it would be an exclusive machine, sold for £1.37 million a pop and limited to 100 cars. That’s equivalent to $1.86 million at the current exchange rate...
4 Feb 2022, 18:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla owners in Canada, Finland, and some other cold-weather markets discovered soon that vehicles from the company could present serious paint problems. So far, they had only been noticed in cars made in Fremont. Giga Shanghai apparently did a bet...
4 Feb 2022, 15:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Koenigsegg has had many factories before getting to the former airfield of the "Johan Röd" squadron. When it was founded, its cars were made in Olofström. In 1997, it moved the plant to a farm in Ängelholm. When that plant ...
4 Feb 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Badge engineering episodes have an interesting characteristic: they tend to happen more between different partnering companies than with multiple brands from the same automaker. In other words, no company would dare to sell the same car with a diff...
4 Feb 2022, 10:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volvo is pretty serious about selling only electric cars by 2030. To achieve that, the Swedish automaker knows it will need plenty of batteries, and it will do that with Northvolt. Both companies announced today that they will have a factory ready ...
3 Feb 2022, 22:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you happen to visit the Biagi Bros homepage, you’ll see it is a family business that did really well. The logistics company from Napa, California, operates more than 270 tractors, 750 trailers, and has 30 distribution centers in the U.S. T...
3 Feb 2022, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is hard to tell the wheat from the chaff these days. With electric mobility pressing even well-established companies to change, many newcomers think this is their chance to be among the big ones or at least to receive investments from people tha...
3 Feb 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a second recall to deal with this week. After it announced FSD’s illegal capacity to perform rolling stops would end and confessed it was that way by design, the company will now have to admit the lack of a seat belt chime is a defe...
3 Feb 2022, 12:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk used the excuse that Tesla has to focus on volumes for its current cars to say it will not deliver any new models this year. Even if that made sense because of repressed demand, the effect would be limited to the market segments where Tes...
3 Feb 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Great leaps in technology are often so simple that competitors wonder: why didn’t I think of that? This is pretty much what happened with the Quark motor developed by Koenigsegg. Being compact is just part of its appeal. Few have paid attenti...
2 Feb 2022, 18:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ad-hominem is one of the most known and used fallacies worldwide. Instead of attacking the ideas, people target those expressing them. Just check how many are called racists, communists, or fascists just for saying something others do not agree wit...
2 Feb 2022, 10:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The most affordable Land Rover currently for sale is the Evoque. In the UK, it starts at £32,590 ($44,111 at the current exchange rate). The Defender starts at £57,590 ($77,948) if you consider the passenger derivatives. Land Rover char...
1 Feb 2022, 16:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been having some issues with numbers. After claiming that the 53,822 currently with FSD access were “nearly 60,000,” it inflated a more serious number in Australia. Thanks to Joshua Dowling – from Drive.com.au – we...
1 Feb 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When people check all the new electric cars for sale, they may think that EVs are a finished product with minor improvements. Koenigsegg is happy to correct them with its latest announcement: an electric motor with the goal of offering the best cha...
1 Feb 2022, 11:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While Elon Musk promises FSD will make turn Tesla vehicles into robotaxis next year, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) is clearly focusing more on the company’s moves. The latest sign that this is happening is Tesla&rsquo...
1 Feb 2022, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Electrification is a necessary step to preserve personal mobility. In other words, cars will have to adopt electric motors to be more efficient. What is still up to debate is what should give them energy: battery packs, fuel cells, or even ICEs wor...
31 Jan 2022, 16:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Skoda Enyaq iV has been considered the best MEB product so far. With that warm reception, Skoda is now ready to expand its electric car lineup with the Enyaq Coupe iV. Following a common strategy in the automotive industry, the first derivative...
31 Jan 2022, 13:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At the time of writing, Rich Rebuilds’ video about how broken Tesla Service is already has close to half a million views. People were curious to see the multiple cases in which it failed. Although Rich Benoit is fed up with talking about Tesl...