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27 Jul 2021, 08:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A while ago, some websites said that the Tesla Semi would be in production soon. What these guys miss is that such rumors are equivalent to saying a building will be built without its foundation. In Tesla’s case, the foundation corresponds to...
27 Jul 2021, 06:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has been presenting profitable quarters since Q3 2019. The issue is that profit came in most cases from regulatory credits – money that automakers that can’t meet carbon emission rules pay to benefit from Tesla’s numbers. In...
26 Jul 2021, 19:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When someone tells you they will double anything, you have to ask: “Compared to what?” If you are talking about 1 or 2 things, doubling may not take that much effort. This is why Polestar announcing it will double its global presence an...
26 Jul 2021, 15:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mercedes-Benz presented its strategy to become electric-only “where market conditions allow," it also revealed something interesting about what it plans for future cells. According to the company, it is “aiming for a modular b...
26 Jul 2021, 13:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Gordon Murray is making the most of the time combustion engines have left. His latest creation, the T.50, promises to have the highest-revving road-going V12 in history. When it is fully unleashed, it will be able to reach 12,100 rpm. While it isn&...
26 Jul 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The BMW 6 Series has lost much of its appeal after the German brand released the 8 Series. That led to rumors that we may see it morph into a Porsche 911 rival instead. With the Z4 competing with the Porsche Boxster, this new sports car could be na...
24 Jul 2021, 09:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Chery did not take long to reveal official QQ Ice Cream pictures after it released some teaser images. They show it is exactly like the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV apart from the Chery badge and the ice cream camouflage that states it is a Mini SUV. Y...
23 Jul 2021, 17:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to John Lennon, “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” In a recent article, we warned that life might catch off guard automakers that plan to recycle all their battery packs. Volkswagen wa...
23 Jul 2021, 16:44 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV keeps selling better than the Model 3 in China. In June, it found 29,143 new owners there, while 16,515 chose a Tesla. In Europe, people are still waiting for the FreZe Nikrob EV, a car assembled in Lithuania as part of...
23 Jul 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM has found an intriguing way to deal with the Chevrolet Bolt EV fires. Instead of admitting that the first recall was not enough to solve the issue, it announced that LG Energy Solution helped it to discover something else. According to the two c...
23 Jul 2021, 12:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With everything Mercedes-Benz presented at its strategy update for becoming an electric-only car company by 2030, some details must have gone unnoticed. Two of the most important were just teasers, and Mercedes-Benz talked about only one: the EQS S...
23 Jul 2021, 09:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rivian recently postponed – again – the deliveries of its first vehicles, the R1T and the R1S. Despite that, the EV startup is already looking for a location to establish its second plant. Currently, Rivian plans to produce the electric...
23 Jul 2021, 07:40 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The most curious thing we have seen at the Volkswagen New Auto Strategy presentation had nothing to do with the company’s plans. If you follow autoevolution, you must have seen that the company included Mexico and Central America in its map o...
22 Jul 2021, 18:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After the expectation that Mercedes-Benz would present the Vision EQXX concept this July 22, we can confess a slight frustration with not seeing the real deal. Despite that, Mercedes-Benz gave us a rather generous overview of the goals for that veh...
22 Jul 2021, 17:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz has stepped on the accelerator pedal in its electrification plans. To ditch the combustion-engined car it helped to invent in 1886, it will count on four electric platforms: MMA, MB.EA, AMG.EA, and VAN.EA. The problem is that the MMA ...
22 Jul 2021, 14:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / After announcing it plans to give up on the combustion engine by the end of the decade “where market conditions allow," Mercedes-Benz presented a few other surprises. One of them is that it bought YASA Limited, a company you knew so far ...
22 Jul 2021, 10:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Nio promised it would sell the first units of the ES8 in September. However, test drives there will start in August if the first shipment of these vehicles arrives soon in Norwegian ports. It has left the Shanghai Waigaoqiao port on July 20. The...
22 Jul 2021, 07:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla made the headlines when Elon Musk announced that the company would open Superchargers to other brands. The problem is that it doesn’t make sense. With more affordable vehicles for sale, the Tesla Supercharging network is busier than eve...
21 Jul 2021, 19:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Mercedes-Benz will make an update to its strategic plan announced on October 6, 2020. Recent rumors were that the German carmaker was planning to be more aggressive with its electric push and the event apparently confirms that this is the case. To ...
21 Jul 2021, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you are following the Mazda story about rotary engines as range extenders for EVs, you must still be confused with what the company seems to have said to Automotive News and Roadshow. To the first, Mazda confirmed it put those plans on hold....