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9 Jul 2021, 10:43 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Stellantis EV Day 2021 was a rich event about its electrification plans. Apart from revealing what each of its 14 brands wants to do with battery packs and electric motors, it also helped people make fun of the EV slogans each brand chose....
9 Jul 2021, 06:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / By now, Tesla should know it cannot be innovative and unpredictable about building its German factory as it is with making cars. Yet, Brandenburg’s Ministry of the Environment announced the company would be fined for tanks that were not in it...
9 Jul 2021, 05:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Make no mistake when you watch the video below. It starts amusingly, showing that the Ford Mustang Mach-E drives even in a very stripped – or lightweight – version. But it actually means war. We have no idea where Sandy Munro heard he d...
8 Jul 2021, 13:35 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis decided that bringing Opel back to profitability was not enough. After that goal was achieved when the company was still called only PSA, it is now preparing to go fully electric by 2028. When it is a pure electric car brand, it will sta...
8 Jul 2021, 12:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Lightyear must be very proud of itself. In the Aldenhoven Testing Center in Germany, the EV startup put its first vehicle to test and achieved impressive numbers. With a 60 kWh battery pack and a full charge, the One managed to run 710 kilometers (...
8 Jul 2021, 09:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The last Lotus with a combustion engine is the heaviest ever produced with this setup. The lightest Emira weighs 1,405 kg (3,097 lbs) “in its lightest form,” while the lightest Evora – the GTE F1 Team Limited Edition – tippe...
8 Jul 2021, 06:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have been anticipating that Tesla would sell a Model Y with LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cells for quite a while already. Today, the confirmation for such a derivative came thanks to Tesla’s configuration page on its Chinese website. The M...
7 Jul 2021, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The solid-state cell race will continue until at least the first commercial battery is released by any contenders. We expect it to continue with the other solutions presented until one of them prevails. However, there may be an alternative to those...
7 Jul 2021, 13:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It sometimes happens that executives let people know elements of future projects because something slips. Only they know if that was on purpose or by mistake. Anyone close to Henrik Fisker may ask him which was the case in his latest tweet about th...
7 Jul 2021, 10:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Volkswagen is living proof that good things can come out of controversial origins. Adolf Hitler ordered Ferdinand Porsche to create a “people’s car,” and we ended up with the VW Beetle and a mammoth carmaker – thanks to majo...
7 Jul 2021, 10:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Twitter became the place to be when it comes to automotive news. After Elon Musk elected that platform as Tesla’s PR department, other CEOs followed his lead. RJ Scaringe has been sharing a lot there about Rivian, but Herbert Diess also tweet...
7 Jul 2021, 09:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Every single day we hear about a new company that will bring innovative electric cars to the market. Very few present enough substance to be taken seriously, even if they manage to buy a factory. It takes more than that to deserve some credibility,...
7 Jul 2021, 06:30 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Tesla owners have issues with their cars, they sometimes ask Elon Musk for help on Twitter. The Tesla CEO typically answers just those from famous people such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The author of “The Black Swan” and “Anti...
6 Jul 2021, 18:26 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Auto Express selected the Hyundai Ioniq 5 as the winner of its Car of the Year 2021 Award. That alone would be enough to say that our British colleagues liked the new electric SUV very much, but that would not be enough to describe what they though...
6 Jul 2021, 17:28 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Riversimple is getting a lot of attention these days, not only for proposing a different approach to personal mobility. Thanks to a visit from the Prince of Wales, the revolutionary company made the headlines in the UK. Sadly, not precisely for the...
6 Jul 2021, 16:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Wuling presented the Hongguang Mini EV in July 2020. Until January, it had sold around 160,000 units. The company believes it will sell more than 400,000 units of the Hongguang Mini EV in 2021. If it achieves that number, it will need only two year...
6 Jul 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have already told you Volkswagen is bragging about being the "first and only high-volume manufacturer" to offer an OTA (over-the-air) software update starting this month. Tesla provides that capability for a long time already, but it i...
6 Jul 2021, 10:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla has its own statistics to claim that cars on Autopilot are safer than those driven solely by humans. A New York Times article shows that not everybody agrees with that, such as Jovani Maldonado’s family. The 15-year-old boy died in a cr...
5 Jul 2021, 21:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The latest video from Sandy Munro’s teardown process for the Ford Mustang Mach-E reached the heart of any electric car: the battery pack. One of the most exciting discoveries made by the Munro & Associates team has to do with the role thi...
5 Jul 2021, 18:45 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Frankfurt Motor Show is no more. It will be replaced in 2021 with the IAA Mobility, in Munich, from September 7 up to September 12. It is possible that it becomes the Munich Motor Show one day, but we’re not there yet. Audi will show ther...