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25 Aug 2021, 10:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The international health crisis affected multiple lives and businesses, and auto shows were no exception. They were already experiencing a change, which made the IAA move from Frankfurt to Munich, but the COVID-19 made things even worse. Struggling...
25 Aug 2021, 08:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems Citroën hit the jackpot with the Ami. It should be doing so well that Opel decided to have its share of that cake. Another possibility is that Stellantis thinks the idea can succeed in markets where the Citroën brand may not do s...
24 Aug 2021, 17:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nio definitely does not want people taking any chances while driving its vehicles with NOP (Navigate on Pilot). When Lin Wenqin, the founder of Chinese restaurant brand Meiyihao, died after crashing his ES8 while using the advanced driving assistan...
24 Aug 2021, 15:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mazda says it conceived the MX-30 to have a battery pack that did not compromise the vehicle’s dynamics. As brilliant as it may be in that regard, the fact is that the electric crossover was designed to have a range extender. The car’s ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro managed to have Donna Dickson in one of his latest videos. The Ford Mustang Mach-E chief engineer started the conversation by mentioning she inherited many of the decisions that were taken about the car, which was a pity. For the good a...
24 Aug 2021, 07:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Ford announced it already has 120,000 pre-orders for the F-150 Lightning, which is way above what the company expected. According to Reuters, that led the automaker to double the production targets for the electric pickup truck. Instead of producin...
23 Aug 2021, 17:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We already know quite a bit about Polestar’s future vehicle, the Polestar 3. The electric SUV will be closely related to the Volvo XC90 successor: both will be made at Volvo’s Ridgeville plant in the U.S. using the SPA2 architecture. Th...
23 Aug 2021, 14:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A Model S caught fire in April 2019 in Shanghai. A few weeks later, Tesla released an OTA (over-the-air) update that capped the voltage and charging speed of multiple vehicles. Some owners in the U.S. and Norway sued Tesla. While the company propos...
23 Aug 2021, 12:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sandy Munro crowdfunded the purchase of a Tesla Model S Plaid to tear it down and show what makes it the quickest four-door vehicle currently available worldwide. While he will take a while to receive the EV, Rich Benoit managed to get his hands on...
22 Aug 2021, 18:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In Brazil, carmakers are more commonly known as assemblers (montadoras). That started because automobiles need multiple parts, and most of them come from suppliers. You name it: glasses, seats, tires, wheels, steering wheels, electronic modules, se...
21 Aug 2021, 07:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When we thought the GM recall for the Chevrolet Bolt EV would not give us anything else to write about, the company surprised us. It had finally decided to replace the defective battery modules without disclosing what caused the fires. In an unusua...
20 Aug 2021, 18:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Car manufacturing is hard, as famous and anonymous people like to remind us. Before a vehicle reaches mass production, it demands pre-production units. They help to validate the assembly process and to test all steps before consumers start receivin...
20 Aug 2021, 15:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Of all the electric vehicles on the market so far, the VW ID.3 was one of the few that did not present any fire episode. That ended on August 14 when one of these EVs burned to the ground in Groningen, in the Netherlands. The Meternieuws YouTube...
20 Aug 2021, 12:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The three “Rs” for a more sustainable life are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. BMW created a project in Brazil that used the first two Rs to prevent the third one. After collecting used battery modules from some i3s it sold in that country,...
20 Aug 2021, 11:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Transitioning personal transportation to electric vehicles is just part of the challenge that lies ahead. If we are not to use the energy contained in fossil fuels, we will have to harvest it elsewhere. Solar and wind are progressing at high speed,...
19 Aug 2021, 17:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s no bright perspective about what is happening in Afghanistan. While people point fingers about who should have done what, many are dying. Women and children are particularly terrified of the future there. The latest tale that emerged ...
19 Aug 2021, 15:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The combustion engine was about to disappear not only because oil is a finite raw material. The fact that the best ones still lose 60% of the energy they receive through fuel also makes them incredibly inefficient machines. Since the very beginning...
19 Aug 2021, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Zhang Yazhou jumped on the roof of a Tesla Model 3 to protest against the company at the Auto Shanghai 2021, the company faced severe reputation damages in China. Some owners installed cameras to film the pedals and prove they were not to bla...
19 Aug 2021, 08:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people accuse Sandy Munro of being a Tesla puppet for praising Tesla's solutions most of the time. His new video shows that the engineer only tells things as he sees them, something he has repeated over and over again. The Ford Mustang Ma...
18 Aug 2021, 17:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some advertisement videos are pretty forgettable. Some others stick to popular culture and remain in our heads for years to come. In its latest marketing effort, Audi made a video about the present that did not forget its past and presented the fut...