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19 Jun 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The EV shift is happening with the excuse of turning personal transportation more sustainable. In a way, it is a direct consequence of the increasingly stricter emission rules that carmakers have to obey. Just check the Euro 7 controversy, and you&...
17 Jun 2023, 06:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Rimac Nevera's record from 0 to 400 kph and back to 0 was short-lived. Koenigsegg announced on June 16 that the Regera broke it. There is no word on the quarter-mile record, but that probably has to do with the Swedish automaker not talkin...
16 Jun 2023, 14:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla shares have been increasing in value lately on news that Ford and General Motors will use the North American Charging Standard (NACS). It is not very clear how having more vehicles using the Supercharging network with a charging standard that...
15 Jun 2023, 17:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When I wrote about Toyota's plans to sell battery electric cars (BEVs), I forgot to mention that those plans were announced by a new business division called BEV Factory. Toyota disclosed another division on the "Let's Change the Fut...
14 Jun 2023, 11:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In my research to write about the Our Next Energy (ONE) Gemini battery pack, I ended up watching some interviews and presentations from Mujeeb Ijaz, the startup's CEO. Although explaining the accumulator's purpose was fascinating, the goa...
13 Jun 2023, 13:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota is still seen as an EV-skeptic automaker because it dared not follow the hype around these vehicles. The world's largest car company has tried to say several times it would only follow this path when battery technology was at the right ...
13 Jun 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 21, 2019, the world got to know the Tesla Cybertruck. The electric pickup truck would arrive in 2021 with a stressed-skin structure, an affordable price, and revolutionary 4680 cells. Almost four years later, virtually all that has been...
11 Jun 2023, 08:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / General Motors announced it also made a deal with Tesla to use its Supercharging network and the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Ford did that a few weeks ago. While people bet that CCS will eventually disappear and Ford and GM should offe...
9 Jun 2023, 16:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 2, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration disclosed that Stellantis had to pay $235.6 million in fines for not meeting fuel economy standards. General Motors was also punished with $128.2 million in penalties, for a total of $36...
7 Jun 2023, 19:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have been following Our Next Energy (ONE) as closely as possible after the company achieved something extraordinary. It made a Model S equipped with its Gemini battery pack run 752 miles (1,210 kilometers) on a single full charge. This component ...
6 Jun 2023, 09:09 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla proved battery electric vehicles (BEVs) could be desirable. Lucid and Rivian found their own arguments to reinforce the same thing. Tesla only sells its cars directly to customers, as Lucid and Rivian also do. It is natural that BEV startups ...
5 Jun 2023, 22:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Autos Segredos said Stellantis would name its new unibody pickup truck Rampage, I had no doubt that would indeed be the case. Anyway, it is always good to have the official confirmation, and it arrived this June 5. Luckily, there are only a fe...
5 Jun 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) received a petition for a recall of all Tesla vehicles sold in the US in April. Costas Lakafossis came up with an explanation for sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) episodes and proposed ...
4 Jun 2023, 06:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have just written about how BEV startups can be very different from each other, with only a few having any chance of survival. AEHRA is an Italian BEV startup that presented what seemed to be renderings of an SUV in November 2022. It also promise...
3 Jun 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is increasingly clearer that most of the BEV startups we have seen in the last few years will not survive. They emerged in a moment of easy money when a bull market stimulated investors to look for the next Tesla. When war, inflation, and other ...
2 Jun 2023, 19:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I had been insisting on how expensive it is to replace battery packs for quite a while before the BMS_u029 error codes started popping up. They are affecting components not only due to their mileage but also due to their age. A new case reinforces ...
31 May 2023, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Only a few people are truly familiar with how difficult it is to open and get a new mine started. Due to the environmental impacts that they have anywhere they are established, they have to comply with several requirements. That alone can demand ye...
31 May 2023, 12:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After I first wrote about the Tesla Files, it surprised me people were not giving them the attention they deserved – especially in the US. So I wrote about why these documents are crucial for American Tesla employees and customers. To a large...
30 May 2023, 23:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although most BEV advocates are sure battery electric vehicles are the only way out of fossil fuels in personal transportation, others healthily look for other options. One of them is to have electric cars that charge on the go with wireless chargi...
30 May 2023, 13:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 25, the German newspaper Handelsblatt revealed a massive data leak from Tesla. What was supposed to make headlines in all serious media outlets ended up having a shy coverage so far. It seems most people failed to understand what Handelsblat...