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18 Aug 2021, 15:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have told you about Swindon Powertrain thanks to the Swind E Classic Mini. Later, we told you about the conversion kit the company was selling for a relatively lower price tag. If costs are not a concern for you, you should know that Hemmels cho...
18 Aug 2021, 12:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla could not get more bad news about Autopilot and FSD. If it was not enough to have NHTSA investigating why its cars crash so much against parked emergency vehicles, now the Senate Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Edward Markey also went after ...
18 Aug 2021, 10:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last time we talked about the BYD Dolphin, it was expected to cost below RMB100,000. BYD’s pre-sales of the new compact EV revealed that the expectation was right: the entry-level Dolphin will cost RMB96,800, which is equivalent to $14,95...
18 Aug 2021, 08:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk has often claimed that autonomous driving was “basically a solved problem.” He also has multiple videos acting as if Autopilot already offered autonomous driving. Officially, Tesla states the truth about it: that Autopilot and...
17 Aug 2021, 17:23 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s no autonomous car for sale yet. Despite that, customers want to believe Level 2 driving aid systems such as Autopilot are better than humans. When reality strikes, it is often too late. Autopilot is not alone with overreliance issues:...
17 Aug 2021, 15:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / News of crashes with Autopilot keep emerging as much as those of investigations on the system. When a blue Tesla Model 3 ran over seven people outside the Ardingly College in the UK, some immediately jumped to the conclusion that Autopilot was also...
17 Aug 2021, 11:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Elon Musk, prototypes are easy; production is hard. Mockups are even easier than prototypes. Alpha Motor Corporation said it would present the Alpha Wolf on August 24 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the...
17 Aug 2021, 10:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you have no clue about what the Ora Punk Cat is, we are sure you know why it became famous. Just have a look in our gallery, and you’ll say it is a Volkswagen Bettle. The fact that it isn’t explains all the controversy around it. Ora...
17 Aug 2021, 08:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk recently said that “hydrogen is a waste of time,” but some companies are willing to spend this time to prove otherwise. Toyota already sells the Mirai, Hyundai has the Nexo, and BMW will join them by the end of 2022 with small...
16 Aug 2021, 18:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You are forgiven if you think the video below was of an SNL sketch, but it wasn’t. In a press conference held after a visit to Giga Grünheide with Armin Laschet, Germany's conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancello...
16 Aug 2021, 15:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has been accused multiple times of being too soft on Tesla. It has opened 27 investigations about Tesla, 19 of which related to Autopilot. Two of them were concluded, leaving us with 25 inquiri...
16 Aug 2021, 14:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Rich Benoit and Steven Salowsky confirmed that salvaged Model 3 units were able to supercharge again, they probably had no idea how soon that would change again. Apparently, all it took was publishing the video. Other Model 3 owners got in tou...
16 Aug 2021, 11:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After Lamborghini decided to transform an Aventador into the new Countach, retro designs are back into automotive discussions. Among the many vehicles that deserve a second generation is the M1, which BMW “brought back” more than once. ...
16 Aug 2021, 09:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If anyone ever wanted to do a video, to sum up the issues with the Tesla Model 3, Rich Benoit arrived first. His latest one at the Rich Rebuilds channel presented three of the most common problems with the car all at once, and only one of them was ...
13 Aug 2021, 19:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What can the Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 and the Everrati Signature have in common? Apart from four tires, seats, and a steering wheel, very little, but the Porsche 911 conversion made by the British company made us see why Stephan Winkelmann wa...
13 Aug 2021, 18:36 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It may not look like that, but the Lamborghini Countach celebrated 50 years in 2021. It was first presented when it did not even have that name, just the codename LP112 and the name that it bore at the Geneva Motor Show in 1971: LP500 Concept. It w...
13 Aug 2021, 15:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Aptera officially announced its resurrection almost two years ago, by the end of August 2019. Since then, it has already presented one prototype and the commitment not to die again. After its first Alpha prototype, called Noir, the company revealed...
13 Aug 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Using hydrogen for transportation is criticized by many. It would not be as energy-efficient as batteries, and a recent study even pointed out that producing it can be more pollutant than just burning the natural gas from where it is extracted. One...
13 Aug 2021, 05:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When you bring back a powerful nameplate to life, the best stage to announce that is probably the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegace. Lamborghini will present there the new Countach LPI 800-4. Audi will show the skysphere, its reinterpretation o...
12 Aug 2021, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / For some, buying a Tesla would be like a dream. For Sergio Rodriguez, it turned into a bitter experience not only once but twice. His first Tesla Model X got famous worldwide when it presented a bizarre water leak on the A-pillar: water gushed from...