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20 Jul 2023, 20:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have been writing for a while already about Tesla codes that warn owners their battery packs, and their budgets are toast. Called BMS_u029 and BMS_u018, they are emerging in Model S units that get their MCUs recalled or replaced and also after so...
20 Jul 2023, 12:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In November 2022, I wrote about how difficult it was to believe Tesla had an average profit of $9,570 for every BEV it sold. These numbers emerged from the Q3 2022 earnings report. We have seen three more quarter reports go, and the doubt persists,...
20 Jul 2023, 07:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla reached an impressive milestone in Europe in the first half of 2023: the Model Y became the best seller on that continent. Most of these vehicles came from China while the BEV maker was scaling up production at its German factory. Honda has j...
19 Jul 2023, 10:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Transport & Environment (T&E) does not like plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs). It accused them more than once of greenwashing personal transportation and emitting more than automakers claim they do. That's controversial, considering car ...
18 Jul 2023, 10:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." This quote is attributed to Ronald H. Coase, a British economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1991. Coase corrected that in a letter to T. Dudley Wallace written in 1975. W...
15 Jul 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hyundai has just presented its most powerful car ever at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. It is also the first battery electric vehicle (BEV) to wear the N badge. All these things should make the IONIQ 5 N a remarkable car. Yet, it is also the lates...
14 Jul 2023, 10:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You must have heard that Audi is considering buying an electric architecture from a Chinese company to produce battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Automobilwoche revealed that on July 9. Greg Kable brought more details on July 12: the German carmaker...
13 Jul 2023, 22:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Triumph Motor Company was born in 1885 but only started making automobiles in 1923. Before that, it produced bicycles, which may explain its love for light vehicles. Leyland Motors bought it in 1960, and British Leyland eventually killed it in ...
13 Jul 2023, 11:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Anyone who enjoyed watching Top Gear before Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer will remember his epic review of the Ariel Atom. At the time, it started "at under £20,000" and delivered 300 bhp, thanks to its supercharged Honda Civic...
13 Jul 2023, 07:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A new regulation in Europe made me realize something that passed before my eyes in the past but did not receive the attention it deserved. In the US, Class 8 electric trucks can have a higher maximum gross weight than those powered by internal comb...
12 Jul 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reaching more people can be a blessing or a curse. Ask anyone who suddenly became famous, and they will tell you more about that. That can also be seen in the automotive world. When a company achieves higher sales numbers, its issues are amplified ...
11 Jul 2023, 10:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Many have declared that internal combustion engines (ICEs) are dead – myself included. However, the latest edition of the Vienna Motor Symposium gave Fritz Indra the certainty that the game is far from lost. Considered the ICE Pope by his fan...
10 Jul 2023, 14:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In August 2021, the first rumors about Renault getting rid of its internal combustion engine (ICE) operations emerged. At first, the French company would sell all its factories and ICEs to Geely and buy what it needed from the Chinese automaker. Co...
7 Jul 2023, 18:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At the 2020 NIO Day – which was held in January 2021 – William Li said the ET7 would have a solid-state battery pack in 2022. Since then, we discovered that the cells would be made by Solid State Lion – a company that is now calle...
6 Jul 2023, 21:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some episodes just show how detached politicians are from real life. Take Bruno Le Maire, the French Finance Minister. In an interview with BFM TV, Le Maire said Stellantis should produce the Peugeot e-208 in France out of "economic patriotism...
6 Jul 2023, 18:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I first wrote about NamX and its SUV powered by fuel cells – the HUV – the startup said CapXs would provide hydrogen for its vehicles. These hydrogen capsules could be recharged at hydrogen stations, delivered to customers, or boug...
5 Jul 2023, 20:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In July 2021, the Stellantis EV Day revealed the four platforms the automaker would use in its electrification efforts: STLA Small, Medium, Large, and Frame. It also shared some technical parameters it would follow that we now know have changed a b...
5 Jul 2023, 11:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In November 2022, the first reports that BYD would buy a Ford factory in Brazil emerged. At the time, the Bahia government said the Chinese automaker would close the deal, but BYD rushed to say nothing was decided at that point. It took them eight ...
3 Jul 2023, 17:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If it were not for the EV1, we could say that General Motors arrived late to the electric car party. When it decided it wanted a piece of that market, things went very wrong with the Bolt EV and its massive battery pack recall. The automaker's...
30 Jun 2023, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The push for people to buy battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is coming from all sources. Governments think that will help them achieve the Paris Agreement goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. Pushed by legislators, automakers also want customers to...