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Claudio Afonso

Porto, Portugal
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Lucid Gravity GT-S Takes On Rivian Quad, Beating It on Power but Losing on Acceleration

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By Claudio Afonso
| EV (eletric-vehicles.com)
Lucid introduced a new performance version of the Gravity on Thursday, taking the model to 1,070 horsepower and claiming the title of America’s most powerful three-row SUV. The same day, Rivian announced its 2027 R1 line — in which the Quad, the vehicle Lucid‘s claim is measured against, carried over unchanged at 1,025 horsepower. The two announcements are not equivalent. The Gravity GT-S is a new variant sitting above the Grand Touring, priced about $27,000 above the trim below it.
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Rivian Chief Says Chinese Government Hands ‘Many’ OEMs Zero Capital Costs

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By Claudio Afonso
| EV (eletric-vehicles.com)
Rivian founder and chief executive RJ Scaringe told analysts that the decisive edge held by Chinese EV makers is capital that costs them nothing — “in many cases the capital cost is zero, meaning it’s being provided by the local government.” Scaringe added that the subsidy compounds through the entire supply chain into “a materially lower cost than what it would take to produce in the Western world.” There is no manufacturing secret behind it, he stressed on Thursday’s second-quarter earnings...
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Tesla Chart Choice Hides Robotaxi Slowdown a Quarterly View Would Show

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By Claudio Afonso
| EV (eletric-vehicles.com)
Tesla‘s second-quarter shareholder deck shows cumulative paid robotaxi miles reaching roughly 2.4 million by June. When set against the chart the company published three months earlier, the growth in the paid service peaked in March and slowed in every month since. The first-quarter presentation charted cumulative paid robotaxi miles from June 2025 through March 2026, and the second-quarter version extended the same series through June.
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