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15 Jul 2021, 11:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM said this comes out of an “abundance of caution,” but the truth is that it is tacitly admitting that the final Bolt EV recall is not an effective measure to avoid fires. The company is now asking affected owners to park their cars ou...
14 Jul 2021, 15:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The European Commission will propose that all cars sold in the continent by 2035 will have to be “emissions-free.” Although it has not explicitly said that, approving this rule will imply all combustion-engined vehicles will be forbidde...
14 Jul 2021, 14:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Thomas Schmall, Volkswagen's board member for technology, was the man in charge of explaining the unified cell at the Volkswagen Power Day. At the Volkswagen New Auto strategy presentation, he reinforced how crucial the concept will be for the...
14 Jul 2021, 09:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Dirk Hilgenberg plays a crucial role in the Volkswagen New Auto strategy. As the CEO of CARIAD, he is in charge of developing one of the backbones of the plan: the Volkswagen OS – also called E³ 2.0. This software will be part of the ele...
14 Jul 2021, 07:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While executives presented the Volkswagen New Auto strategy, it was clear that betting on EVs for the future does not imply the company will just get rid of the investments it has made so far in combustion engines. It is quite the opposite: the com...
14 Jul 2021, 06:16 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 5, we told you that Audi will present three new concepts at the 2021 IAA Mobility. L’Argus said they were part of the Artemis project, but we had nothing at the time that could confirm that. More evidence emerged not only to demonstra...
13 Jul 2021, 19:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Events such as the Volkswagen New Auto strategy presentation offer a fantastic opportunity to understand what is going through the minds of the most influential executives in the industry. Herbert Diess even said he could tell us what is driving Ap...
13 Jul 2021, 16:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The 2021 Volkswagen New Auto event had multiple technical issues with the sound and lived broadcasting. However, one of the most intriguing relates to geography. Herbert Diess said in a tweet that Volkswagen is concentrating on Europe, China, ...
13 Jul 2021, 14:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Among the many things disclosed at the Volkswagen New Auto strategy, one of the most important relates to SSP (Scalable Systems Platform). For the first time, Herbert Diess confirmed the Trinity Project from Volkswagen is the other side of the same...
13 Jul 2021, 08:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Before covering a Battery Life video about the Hyundai Ioniq 5, we had never heard that the electric crossover did not have a rear wiper. Christian Stadler drove that car on a rainy day in an autobahn and said rear visibility was really poor. We th...
13 Jul 2021, 05:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis has quite a challenge ahead: how to give cars built on the same platforms unique characters? Volkswagen has done that well with its brands, but it does not have 14 of them to care for like Stellantis. Should the sixth-generation Opel Ast...
12 Jul 2021, 17:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Some people say that soccer fans are not very much into cars and vice-versa. That probably depends on which country you are talking about. If it is about Italy, “calcio” and vehicles prove to go along well, as the video below clearly de...
12 Jul 2021, 15:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It is never enough to repeat that, much like beating the COVID-19 pandemic, carbon neutrality cannot be limited to a few countries. Either you fight that all over the world, or you are fooling yourself into doing anything practical. If poor countri...
12 Jul 2021, 11:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Mazda presented its Wankel range-extender in a tiny image back on June 17, everybody waiting for that version of the MX-30 must have felt a relief. After all, it would be one of the few “series hybrid” vehicles ever to do it right:...
12 Jul 2021, 08:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Sexy Wagon is the name of a song from “Smooth Jazz Journey Ensemble” that we just discovered – you can check it below. It could also be the name of a vehicle that mixed elements from the Polestar Precept Concept and the Volvo Conc...
12 Jul 2021, 07:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On June 30, we wrote about a Rich Benoit tweet. The Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel owner talked about damages in a brand new Model 3 that Tesla would charge $16,000 to repair. Our guess was that the story would end up in a video, and we were right. ...
11 Jul 2021, 09:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On July 12, Tesla and Elon Musk will face one of their significant challenges so far. It has nothing to do with autonomous technology or quality control issues. Instead, both will have to prove that Musk did not personally benefit from Tesla buying...
9 Jul 2021, 18:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / I have been fascinated by electric cars way before Tesla even bothered to exist. If you have never heard about the Gurgel Itaipu or the REVAi, they are the witness of how old that interest is without any need to say how far back it emerged. The...
9 Jul 2021, 16:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Takata disclosed its airbags could send deadly shrapnel flying towards occupants, all manufacturers that bought them had to replace these components. If LGES (LG Energy Solution) sold its batteries both to GM and Hyundai, why only the Korean c...
9 Jul 2021, 14:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / TianTianPai is a fairly popular used car auction platform in China, and it seized its popularity to measure which electric cars their customers prefer. According to a report brought up by CNEVPost, the EV brands used car buyers wanted the most last...