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20 Jan 2022, 11:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Just about a month after Anthony Solima killed Lee Brasier at the Fremont factory, another Tesla worker died in the company’s premises. This time, it all happened at the powertrain production line. KTVU informs that the still-unidentified per...
19 Jan 2022, 22:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has a system called Sentry Mode that monitors activity around the vehicle and sound warnings and informs the car owner about possible threats. Ford promises to take that to the next level with Canopy, a joint venture it created with ADT that ...
19 Jan 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Philippe Chain was the VP for quality at Tesla when the Model S was released. In an article written for MondayNote on July 12, 2020, the former Tesla executive described a dialogue with Elon Musk that demonstrates that Tesla approached car manufact...
19 Jan 2022, 15:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Carlos Tavares is making sure Stellantis will meet emission goals and have electric cars to sell in the future. That does not mean he is comfortable with it. In an interview with European newspapers, he made that pretty clear by stating that EVs ar...
19 Jan 2022, 11:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Porsche revealed on January 19 the third body variant of the Taycan family: the Sport Turismo. You don’t even have to look too much to realize it is very similar to the Cross Turismo apart from the plastic cladding on the fenders. The questio...
19 Jan 2022, 07:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In 2019, a while after a Uber test vehicle killed Elaine Herzberg, Madeleine Clare Elish conceived the concept of moral crumple zones. Just like crumple zones in a car protect its occupants in a crash, moral crumple zones use humans to protect auto...
18 Jan 2022, 21:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The decline of diesel vehicles has reached a relevant low point in 2021. For the first time since they became mainstream, these cars were beaten in sales by electric cars, which means you could see the bright side and consider it was an important l...
18 Jan 2022, 17:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the main discussions around battery swapping is that all automakers would have to come up with a standard so that they could work with any vehicle. Ample has proposed it in March 2021, but a much bigger company is now pursuing the same goal:...
18 Jan 2022, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Multiple traffic safety entities worldwide continuously warn that ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) must be handled with care. They may be brilliant in some situations and a real danger in others. CATARC (China Automotive Technology and Res...
18 Jan 2022, 14:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / China calls electric and electrified vehicles NEVs or new energy vehicles. In 2021, the local market achieved 2.99 million units, representing 14.8% of all new vehicle sales. If things keep the same pace, the country will reach 20% of NEVs in 2022....
18 Jan 2022, 09:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we first watched a video from NY Actions of a Tesla Model 3 crash, the circumstances suggested FSD could be involved. However, a more thorough analysis of the video and a chat with the NYPD/DCPI helped us to conclude excess speed and lack of d...
17 Jan 2022, 23:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / April Gillmore is the kind of woman that likes cars and knows them well. Before buying a 2022 Tesla Model 3 Performance, she owned a Mercedes-Benz C300 4MATIC but wanted something more exciting. After checking some Audi S4 and RS5 units for sale, s...
17 Jan 2022, 19:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / About a year ago, Bloomberg revealed that Lucid would be discussing a factory in Saudi Arabia. In March 2021, The Wall Street Journal published that Lucid had promised to build such a plant there in order to receive investments from PIF (Public Inv...
17 Jan 2022, 17:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla owners in cold-weather regions are now tired of waiting for solutions or explanations for having no heating in their cars. Transport Canada is investigating the situation, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) is discussing t...
17 Jan 2022, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV success, competitors are all trying to copy its recipe in the Chinese market. The most flagrant “tribute” to the EV sales champion is the Chery Ice Cream. If you want ice cream, Wuling now also sells it...
17 Jan 2022, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A full-page ad on the Sunday edition of The New York Times is not exactly cheap. In other words, anyone that pays for one of these means business, and that’s what the Dawn Project is targeting with the Tesla FSD (Full Self-Driving) software. ...
15 Jan 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are a few curious things about Bollinger. The first is that its naming strategy reminds us of Bananas in Pyjamas, with B1 and B2 as their vehicles. The second is the boxy design, but we now have a third one to add. Due to demand for commercia...
14 Jan 2022, 20:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When a woman decided to have solar panels in her house in Northern California, she ran away from small startups in the solar space. She wanted “a company that was firmly established” and “could service the products if something we...
14 Jan 2022, 14:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla’s recalls for the Model 3 and Model S are still a mystery regarding how many units they have affected. After being announced in the U.S., they expanded to China, which showed that Model 3 units made in that country also presented issues...
14 Jan 2022, 11:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We first told you about NIUTRON on December 28. Yinan Li, a founder of NIU, thought that four wheels are better than two and decided to create his own car brand. We must say it was fast: the startup presented its first vehicle on January 12. Called...