Gustavo Ruffo

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Indian cars generally do not attract any attention, but the Maruti Suzuki Dzire should. It proves affordable cars can be safe. How it got there holds the key to making that as obvious as it should be. www.autoevolution.com/news/maruti-...

Costas Lakafossis asked NHTSA to take measures to prevent sudden unintended acceleration cases with Tesla vehicles. He also helped me understand why Autopilot will never avoid emergency vehicles while it works with Tesla Vision: it is blind to these situations.

If you read anywhere that it wasn't a BEV that caused the Fremantle Highway fire, forget it. The truth is we still lack that answer: one of the 498 BEVs in the RoRo ship may have provoked it or made the fire worse. We don't know. Sadly, our only certainty is that journalism is in a sorry state...

Yes, the front-structure casting in this Model Y has a crack, but you won't believe what led this owner to discover the problem: another major safety concern.

When shifting the narrative becomes a stepping stone.

Do you drive a Model Y made in Austin? Do yourself a favor and check the front casting: it may present cracks like these ones.

I have not seen a single article with the proper context for this, so I wrote one. I apologize if any reporter tried to do the same and I failed to read their work.

It's been a while since I do not post anything, but this is a worthy discussion. Can a software lock result in a $10,000 discount with no cost cuts involved? Tesla's latest excuse to reduce Model S and Model X inventories suggests the problem is more serious than the company makes it seem.

The first class action against Tesla for "rosy" range readouts goes beyond that. The attorneys in charge also put a spotlight on something inherent to battery packs with ternary cells: the recommendation not to charge them to their full capacity. All BEV makers should keep an eye on that.

Tesla intentionally made its remanufactured large drive units for the Model S and Model X worse than the original motors. Hansjörg von Gemmingen exposed that trying to demonstrate it was possible to drive an EV for more than 1 million miles. It is no surprise Tesla tries to ignore him. I didn't

What a demolishing article. Congratulations for bringing this up, Reuters.

Several new defects and bad practices related to Tesla were revealed by the work of Christoph Lindner and his team. Known as Tesla Attorney, he started going to court against the BEV maker due to a problem with his own car. Here's what I learned about him in an interview.

Battery electric trucks have a huge handicap compared to those with combustion engines: the weight of their battery packs. Instead of pursuing better ways to transport goods, governments are changing the maximum gross weight for these trucks. That's cheating, and it will not end well.

I've seen some articles talking about how cost misconceptions were hindering BEV adoption, so I went to the sources. The truth is that what some classify as errors are correct impressions – and that customers have a better idea of what is going on than BEV makers would care to admit.

After searching for a Twitter substitute for quite a while, here I am. I'll start with a discussion that I consider pretty relevant: what determines when a car dies?