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6 Aug 2021, 18:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On January 5, 2020, InsideEVs told the story of Sergio Rodriguez and his Tesla Model X with a bizarre water leak. Whenever he crossed a puddle, water would gush from the left A-pillar. The guys from The Electrified Garage revealed that this is a co...
6 Aug 2021, 17:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / What do an automaker, a supplier, and a real estate company have in common? If they are Ford, Bosch, and Bedrock, respectively, the answer is the DSPL (Detroit Smart Parking Lab). The three companies have announced its creation as an “open in...
6 Aug 2021, 15:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If the rumors about Tesla getting BYD’s Blade Battery are true, the irony in the whole story will be very refined. A new report from the Chinese website MyDrivers.com stated that Tesla chose the Model Y to receive them. The reason would not b...
6 Aug 2021, 12:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People buy and sell shares every single day, but that sort of trade calls a lot of attention when it comes from executives running large businesses. Tesla’s current market cap makes it the most valuable car company in the world. Robyn Denholm...
6 Aug 2021, 10:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although GM still keeps to itself the reason for the Chevy Bolt EV fires, it has finally decided to do the right thing and replace the defective battery packs. In its Q2 2021 earnings call, the company finally revealed how much it would spend to fi...
5 Aug 2021, 19:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The combustion-engined car was created in 1886. It had more than one hundred years to conceive and test some formulas that worked well and did so until very recently. Electric cars appeared simultaneously and died in the 1910s. Thanks to electr...
5 Aug 2021, 16:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Benoit became Rich Rebuilds when he tried to make a Model S with his own hands. He did it and called the car Delores. Tesla and the YouTuber parted ways when the company refused to keep his credits for a second-generation Roadster – when...
5 Aug 2021, 15:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla proposed a deal to Tesla Model S owners affected by voltage-capping updates, Elon Musk said the company was just doing the right thing. Another hypothesis for that is that Tesla didn’t want courts inquiring about why it made the up...
5 Aug 2021, 11:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Marc Lichte and Henrik Wenders teased the first concept based on the Artemis project, they said it would be presented on August 10. Audi must have thought that a few people missed that announcement and made it official through its PR departmen...
5 Aug 2021, 10:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are some rumors that emerge which are very conflicting. They make sense under some perspectives and no sense at all under other points of view. This is what happened with news that BYD would sell its Blade Battery to Tesla, reported by the Ch...
5 Aug 2021, 09:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the most significant concerns around Tesla Giga Grünheide is about the water reserves underneath it. The German factory faces resistance from environmental groups and local residents who fear it may contaminate their drinking water. Cur...
4 Aug 2021, 22:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people think that Tesla is innovative because of Elon Musk and that he saved it from going bankrupt. If “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century” is correct, it may have survived despite Musk. Credit Doug Field for...
4 Aug 2021, 21:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / First, we had only a few measures to contain the spread of the international health crisis. You already know them by heart: use masks, wash your hands, keep at least 2 meters (6.6 feet) of distance from strangers. When vaccines emerged in recor...
4 Aug 2021, 18:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Ford announced it would go 100% electric by 2030 in Europe, it may have seemed these electrification plans were geographically limited. In May, Kumar Galhotra said he could see a point in which all Ford vehicles would be EVs, but he did not se...
4 Aug 2021, 16:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reddit user BBFLG tried to ask for advice in a post on that social media. He crashed his 2020 Model X LR Plus on July 25 while using FSD in Northside Drive, Yosemite Valley, California. Rangers and local people told him three other Teslas had alrea...
4 Aug 2021, 13:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Countries that live from oil and gas sales are probably worried about the EV transition. They may keep selling fossil fuels for other applications, but prices will fall drastically when vehicles no longer need gasoline or diesel. Qatar is aware of ...
4 Aug 2021, 09:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / People call it the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, U.S. Infrastructure Bill, and a lot more, but its real name is H.R. 3684 - Invest in America Act. This bill proposes significant investments in multiple aspects of the American infrastructure. Stil...
3 Aug 2021, 20:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nikola is still managing the bad repercussion of having its founder, Trevor Milton, charged by federal prosecutors. If that was not enough, it also did not have good news to share in its Q2 2021 conference call. The company halved its electric truc...
3 Aug 2021, 19:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the biggest automotive disappointments related to the International health crisis was canceling auto shows worldwide. For a Sri Lankan company called Vega, it must have been deep frustration: it was supposed to present its first electric car...
3 Aug 2021, 16:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Unveiled in 2013 as a concept car, the Devel Sixteen should have been revealed as a production model in 2017, but that never happened, and, moreover, it didn't happend even today, in 2021. At this pace, that hypercar may become the swan song f...