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30 Jan 2022, 23:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are two almost unanimous things about recent BMW moves. People loathe the XM design as much as they love the i4 dynamics. Critics are praising BMW’s first electric sedan. However, the first units may present a severe problem: the lack o...
29 Jan 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the Q4 2021 earnings call, Tesla shares slid. The company lost more than $100 billion in value on a single day, which is equivalent to a BYD – or a Daimler plus a Nissan. Twitter was crammed with attempts to explain why that happened, m...
29 Jan 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Canoo announced VDL Nedcar as its manufacturing supplier on June 17, 2021, there was something fishy about all the changes the company was going through. Many of its founders left the company, and the plans were radically different than the or...
28 Jan 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In Europe, cars have to pass regular inspections to keep running on public roads. TÜV is the largest inspection company in Germany, so much so that it became almost a synonym for these checks. Every year, TÜV releases a report about the i...
28 Jan 2022, 12:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Fans of electric cars worldwide will get sad with this news: the BMW i3 will kick the bucket in July. Greg Kable, from Autocar, talked to the company and confirmed that the pioneer EV would have to give room to the third-generation Mini Countryman ...
28 Jan 2022, 08:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As predicted, Nikola could not disclose a lot of information to autoevolution or any other website about the Tre FCEV. It cannot say how big its tanks are at this point, but it was ok to tell us they store the gas at 700 bar (10,153 psi). It also d...
28 Jan 2022, 07:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Whenever we think that Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus cannot surprise us again, a new piece of information emerges. The latest news is that SCG will use the Chevy 2500 HD as the Glickenhaus Hydrogen Fuel Cell Boot Pickup platform, but there’s m...
27 Jan 2022, 21:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape made a strong point with its latest tests. It submitted single-layer samples of its solid-state cells to fast charging at 4C, which means doing so in about 15 minutes. After doing it 400 times, the solid-state battery startup could con...
27 Jan 2022, 16:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We do not blame you if you have never heard about the Cizeta V16T. This supercar was presented in late 1988, which is just a while ago for some car enthusiasts but definitely last century for a majority. Designed by Marcello Gandini, the supercar m...
27 Jan 2022, 13:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After some images of the Volkswagen ID. BUZZ prototype hit social media, a more careful look at them made us wonder if these pictures would not have been taken by the German carmaker itself. A new batch, showing more of the interior, made us confid...
27 Jan 2022, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian said in December 2021 that it would probably not meet its production targets until the end of 2021. It aimed at 1,200, but the supply chain crisis did not help. Even so, the company manufactured 1,015 EVs and delivered 920 with a production ...
27 Jan 2022, 10:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / As Reuters anticipated, Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi indeed announced a joint plan to promote electrification. However, the numbers were a little off. They will not invest €30 billion ($33.6 billion at the current exchange rate) but €2...
27 Jan 2022, 01:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla finished its Q4 2021 earnings call in a very predictable way. Elon Musk promised Level 4 autonomy this year while stuttering and repeating “yeah,” “so,” and “huh,” blamed a focus on output to postpone new p...
26 Jan 2022, 20:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The official presentation of the GMA (Gordon Murray Automotive) T.33 is just some hours away. On January 27, we will learn everything Gordon Murray conceived for his ideal grand tourer. However, GMA shared at least two aspects of the new vehicle: i...
26 Jan 2022, 18:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When NIO revealed its 75-kWh hybrid battery pack on September 23, 2021, we were left with a couple of doubts about it. Which was the chemistry of the ternary cells? How were they arranged? The Chinese automaker solved them with a very educational v...
26 Jan 2022, 17:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Trevor Milton’s defense is asking Nikola and the federal prosecutors to access the prototypes and vehicles he is accused of having lied about. The Nikola founder intends to prove that he was not lying about them. We’re not sure he ever ...
26 Jan 2022, 15:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Brands are an essential asset for any company, and there’s a company that measures how strong and valuable they are. Brand Finance just released its latest rankings. Apart from the most valuable ones, an interesting measurement is for the fas...
26 Jan 2022, 08:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / States also compete against each other. To attract investments, tax breaks and incentives are all they got. An excellent example of how that works comes from GM and its recent investments in Michigan. Of the $7 billion the carmaker wants to invest ...
25 Jan 2022, 21:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After “The New York Times” revealed that Tesla allowed people to play video games while its cars were moving, we thought the EV maker would revert that decision really fast. It didn’t. Tesla only took measures one day after NHTSA ...
25 Jan 2022, 17:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems that Tesla Autopilot will also be under scrutiny in China. A Model 3 using the Level 2 ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) rear-ended a BYD Song Pro DM, getting stuck underneath the SUV. According to Autohome, two other vehicles woul...