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Ford CEO is completely obsessed with Chinese electric cars

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“Xiaomi is the Apple of China.” These are the words not of just anyone, but of Jim Farley, CEO of Ford. The boss of the American company is one of the bosses who has been the most talked about in recent years. And the reason is approach when studying rivals. It is rare to see the CEO of a company praising a rival, but Farley not only does not mince words, but is determined to air the details that need to be improved to catch up. And if there’s one thing that’s catching Farley’s attention, it’s Chinese cars and, in particular, the Xiaomi SU7. Knowing the competition. The automobile industry has embarked on electrification, and if this adventure is making one thing clear, it is that China is leading the way. Although Tesla struck first from the West, it is the Asian giant’s companies that are pushing both technology and batteries. This is generating an ecosystem in which chinese cars They are extremely competitive in the market, something that is making Western manufacturers nervous. To better understand his competition, Farley had the idea of ​​carrying out a series of trips to China to select cars to take back to the United States. Not to dismantle them – or not only – but to drive them on a daily basis on everyday trips. In a recent interview with La Naciónstates that the entire management team is going on that trip to choose 50 cars. He doesn’t want to get off his SU7. Of those 50, they keep five, and they are the ones they take back to Detroit. The one chosen by Farley? He Xiaomi SU7. He liked it to the point of saying that “it’s fantastic,” stating that he didn’t want to get off of it. Previously, already rated the company as “an industry giant and a much stronger consumer brand than automotive companies,” but now it has gone a little further. The Apple of China. “Everyone talks about the Apple car, but the Xiaomi car already exists and it is fantastic,” said before the official cancellation of the car was known. And, in fact, in that interview for La Nación, Farley commented that he is not surprised that Xiaomi is so successful. “It is the Apple of China.” Precisely, it is the “ecosystem” that stands out, something that is Apple’s strong point: “You get into the car with your phone and you don’t have to pair it because it automatically identifies it. It has facial recognition, an AI assistant and can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in three seconds with just the push of a button. It looks like a porsche taycan”, he assures. Humiliating. Is it perfect? “No, and we could surpass it in the segments in which we compete,” adds the manager. But Farley’s ‘flowers’ are not only for Xiaomi, but for the Chinese industry. At the Aspen Ideas Festival held in June of this year, CEO described what he saw in China as “lor most humiliating thing I have ever seen in my life”. The reason? That 70% of the world’s electric vehicles are manufactured in China and that they have cabin technology much superior to that offered by many Western brands. “Automatically, your entire digital life is reflected in the car.” Technology gap. Farley’s interest in competitors, both Chinese and domestic, is evident. When Ford entered the electric segment, He did it like an elephant in a china shopwith a Ford Mustang Mach-E which was very expensive to develop when its competitors already had much more optimized processes that allowed the price of cars to be lowered. Since then, they have been changing strategy and moving chips. They hired Doug Field, former chief engineer of the Tesla Model 3 and member in Apple car design, and was the one who opened cars to Farley. Field sincere: “Jim, your parts release system and development architecture are 25 years behind. You can’t compete like that with BYD”. The acid test will be the new electric pickup that Ford is preparing for 2027 with the aim of making it affordable. We will see, of course, how the market responds, but what is clear is that Farley does not fall short when it comes to praising the competition. Images | Xataka, Ford In Xataka | Ford invested 1 billion to produce electric cars in Europe. Now it will invest money in laying off 1,000 employees

We believed that Tim Cook’s days at Apple were numbered. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman just completely changed that scenario

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It doesn’t matter where or when you read this. It is very likely that today you have seen more than one Apple product around you. Someone answering messages in a iPhone 17 Pro on the Metro, a student taking notes on their MacBook Air in a Starbucks or someone monitoring their physical activity with an Apple Watch during a getaway to the countryside, to name a few everyday scenes. This massification has a name behind it. Tim Cook. And it is unclear how much longer he will remain at the helm of Apple. a few days ago, the Financial Times published that the company was preparing for Cook’s departure next year, giving rise to the succession that has been mentioned in technology circles for years. Now, Bloomberg maintains that That scenario is not so imminent. How is it possible that two such reputable media point in different directions? Let’s analyze the context to understand it better. Hermeticism and calculated silences. Apple is known for its corporate discretion. Not only does it jealously protect the details of its products, but it also leaves little room for knowing its internal movements. There has been no formal announcement regarding Cook’s possible departure. Everything we know comes from specific statements by the executive himself, anonymous sources and analysis by specialists. In an interview with Wired, published December 4, 2024Cook spoke about his future at Apple. When asked how much longer he saw himself in the company, he responded: “Now I get asked that question more often than before. As I get older, as my hair turns gray. I love this place (…) It’s a privilege of my life to be here. And I will do it until the voice in my head says, ‘It’s time,’ and then I’ll focus on what the next chapter will be like. But it’s hard to imagine life without Apple, because my life has been wrapped up in this company since 1998. It’s most of my adult life. And that’s why I love it.” At the beginning of this year, He also participated in the Table Manners podcast. Asked if he would ever retire, he commented: “Sure, but not in the traditional definition. I don’t see myself at home doing nothing, without intellectual stimulation, thinking about how tomorrow can be better than today. I think I will always have that predisposition and want to work. I mean, I was working when I was 11 or 12… You want to be pushed a little. You want to feel a little uncomfortable… I think I will always want to be pushed.” Sources: essential, but not infallible. Outside of those public statements, everything else depends on leaks. People with some proximity to the company—direct or indirect—who share information with journalists under condition of anonymity. In those cases, the reliability of the content depends on the quality, consistency and independence of those sources. Any media that aspires to maintain its credibility should meet these standards. What the Financial Times says. As we say, on November 15, the Financial Times published that Apple was intensifying its efforts to plan Tim Cook’s succession, and that it was preparing for him to step down in 2026. It is the only concrete—unofficial—date mentioned so far. The article is signed by four journalists, including Tim Bradshawglobal technology correspondent based in San Francisco, and attributes the information to “several people familiar with the discussions” within Apple. It is not a slight conjecture nor an isolated interpretation. What Bloomberg says. Bloomberg reacted days lateron November 23, with the newsletter from Mark Gurman, one of the journalists with the best access to early information about Apple. He does not rule out that Cook will retire one day, nor that his successor could be someone like Jon Ternus. But he does state something key: “I think the news was simply false.” According to Gurman, with the information he has been able to verify in recent weeks, it does not seem likely that Cook will leave office in the middle of next year. He even assures that he would be surprised if Apple faced this replacement within the deadlines indicated by the Financial Times. He sums it up clearly: “Yes, Apple will eventually have a new leader. And yes, it will probably be Ternus. But unless some unforeseen event occurs that forces Cook to resign sooner than expected, that time is not close.” So who gets it right? At this point, one thing is clear: we cannot say that the Financial Times is right. We also cannot guarantee that Bloomberg has it. It is possible that each media outlet has access to different parts of the same conversation, or that their sources are showing different angles of the same scenario, perhaps with their own interests. Our role, also as a medium, is to offer the most complete “photograph” possible so that you can form your own criteria. And, with the caution that we are entering speculative territory, it is reasonable to think that there may be internal conversations about the succession, although not all sources seem to agree on what they know, what they think they know, or what they are willing to share. For now, the only certain thing is that Tim Cook is still at the helm of Apple. An Apple that, since taking office in 2011, has gone from having a market capitalization of 350 billion dollars to more than 4 trillion. More than Alphabet or Microsoft. And in that process, it stopped being a brand perceived as aspirational or exclusive to become an everyday, global and omnipresent presence. Just like what anyone can observe today, from a subway car to a university classroom. Images | Apple (1, 2) In Xataka | Tim Cook has admitted that Apple is “very open” to acquisitions in AI. 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The best-selling car in Spain is the Dacia Sandero. It is a completely irrelevant fact to understand Spain

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The Dacia Sandero was, in 2024, the best selling car in Spain. It was, in fact, in a total of five countries around the world. In addition to Spain, the Sandero repeated the throne in Bulgaria, Kosovo, Morocco and Portugal. This year we are on track to repeat it, with a Dacia Sandero that has added 28,765 units. Well above the MG ZS, the second best-selling car with 19,251 euros. The data tells us that among the best selling cars In our country the cheapest vehicles triumph. The Renault Clio is the third option. Despite having announced a new generation, it is still the third best-selling car in our country and can be found for prices starting at just over 16,000 euros. The Seat Ibiza is the fourth best-selling car and its starting price is just below the 15,000 euro border. Among the 10 best-selling cars we also find the Peugeot 208, which starts at 17,000 euros. Are we poor? This is what many responses on social networks affirm to each and every one of the lists of the best-selling cars in the world. The reactions compare us with the Nordic countries or Belgium, where the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car last year. But… what if the statistics were distorted? Simply looking at which is the best-selling car by country gives rise to some paradoxes. France has a salary average of 44,968 euros, while in our country we move at 31,698 euros, according to data collected by Expansion. Despite this, the best-selling car in France in 2024 was the Renault Clio… followed by the Peugeot 208 and the Dacia Sandero. Photography is not very different from that of our country. Finland has an average salary of 52,893 euros, double the 25,198 euros in Greece. Both, however, share that the best selling car in their countries last year it was the Toyota Yaris Cross. The same car that repeated as the best-selling in Poland. Now, we can understand that the photograph may be somewhat distorted. Bestseller just means “bestseller” “The fact that sales were concentrated on that type of car (the Dacia Sandero) or on its price level, that it was the best-seller did not say anything about our purchasing capacity” Who maintains this is Manuel HidalgoDoctor in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and professor at the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). He did it with a tweet on According to his calculations: 33,251 euros. That is the average price of cars bought in Spain. And the data even has nuances that would raise this figure. We might think that a very expensive car will undoubtedly raise the average price. For example, a Dacia Sandero sells for less than 15,000 euros, so a car worth 150,000 euros is equivalent to the registration of ten of these cars. Source: Manuel Hidalgo But Hidalgo has also crossed the frequency with which these cars are purchased. And in the graph above you can see that, indeed, there is a good number of vehicles sold at the average price of a Dacia Sandero and then there is a spike when the graph approaches 20,000 euros. However, most cars sold In our country they stand at 30,000 euros, very close to the average of 33,251 euros. From here, there is a marked drop. The professor and Doctor in economics explains that to obtain the data he has taken the data of the best-selling cars in our country between January and September 2025 (latest data available) and has crossed them with the RRP of the price at which each and every one of the cars in our country are sold. These data show that six times more cars are sold at the 30,000 euro border than at the 14,000 euro border where the Sandero starts. The leadership of the latter is based on the fact that it is the market reference among the cheapest cars. The options in this price range are also much more limited, so at higher prices sales are diversified and, therefore, it is more difficult for a car to gain points to appear among the 10 best-selling cars in our country. But, as we said, it is very likely that the average price we pay for our car in Spain be taller. We asked Manuel Hidalgo about this possibility and he confirmed it. It must be taken into account that the data shown is obtained with the RRP of the car but not with the expenditure that the private client makes on equipment or superior mechanics. And the basic versions of a car are, in many cases and more so in cheap vehicles like the Dacia Sandero, focused on large fleets. This explains that if the car is segmented between individuals and legal entities, the curve shifts to the right. Source: Manuel Hidalgo According to the data collected by Manuel Hidalgo, the average of the car purchased by an individual is higher than the average of the legal entity. Specifically, an individual spends 33,982 euros per vehicle, while an individual spends 32,376 euros. Looking at the graph above, we see that it is common to buy cars for very low priced fleets. So much so that the graphs between individuals and companies do not equalize until both reach 20,000 euros. Among individuals, the frequency of purchases between 20,000 and 30,000 euros shoots up earlier and it is evident that the final average price is driven by a rebound in purchases between 50,000 and 60,000 euros. Among individuals, it is evident that there is a purchase for fleets and work vehicles where the cheapest cars are sought. Then, the frequency shoots up again at the border of 30,000 euros, showing that it is the segment preferred by companies for cars used by their employees or by self-employed people who can deduct part of the fees. That is, yes, in Spain the most purchased car is the Dacia Sandero but the variables that must be taken into account to analyze the … Read more

proposes to the EU to eliminate it completely

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We are just a few days away from reaching a ritual that does not feel good at all to our internal clock: time change to winter time. Early next Saturday morning our clocks will be one hour back, which causes many unwanted effects in many people (although you can sleep an hour more). But there is good news for the detractors of this measure: The Government is going to propose that this practice come to an end. The advertisement. Through his Something that for Sánchez has been blunt: “Frankly, I don’t see the point.” That is why the Spanish government will bring to the EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council a proposal based on three key arguments to dismiss this practice, putting an end to it in 2026, which is the deadline for this practice. The three arguments. Over the last few years, different reasons have been pointed out to eliminate this time change forever. The first of this is that the argument that energy savings is important to make this delay in the schedule has become obsolete. According to the Spanish executive himself, there is no solid scientific evidence that demonstrates significant energy savings with current consumption patterns and technology, having a marginal impact that does not offset the effects on our health. And the health of citizens is the second argument they give. When a time change is made, even if only for an hour, our internal biological clock is literally ‘dislocated’, something we know as chronodisruption. This has important negative consequences such as sleep disordersfatigue and a general desynchronization of the body, which has many more negative effects that do not compensate for the benefits that they have wanted to sell us since the 70s. m The third argument is in the opinion of the citizens. In theory, politics should listen to citizens and citizens have spoken loud and clear. The Government is supported by data that shows massive rejection of this time change. Specifically, it is done reference to public consultation that was made in 2018 at the European level on this matter, which resulted in a rejection of 66% among the Spanish community and an overwhelming 84% against at the European level. Now she can be the good one. This is not the first time that Europe has tried to rid itself of this vestige of the 20th century. In 2019, The European Parliament with 63% of the votes in favor gave the green light to this suppression. However, the initiative ran aground in the European Councilthe body where all Member States have the final say and where unanimity is needed. The fact that there was no consensus on which time zone to adopt blocked any progress. So… What has changed? The key is in the calendar. The European directive that regulates the time change has an expiration date: 2026. This opens a perfect window of opportunity to reopen the debate and force a decision before it is necessary to renew it. Spain wants to take advantage of this momentum so that the 27 agree once and for all. The big decision. What schedule do we stay with? Here there are two options: winter time (GMT+1) which aligns us with geography or summer time (GMT +2) which favors afternoons with more light. This is where the real battle is. Researchers have an answer: keep winter time. A global study in which the University of Granada participated warned of the negative biological impact that the time change has, and is committed to the time we are going to enter because “winter time avoids excess light in the afternoon/night, considered harmful to health by altering people’s chronobiotic system”, according to the UGR. In this way, now we have to wait to see if the European Union takes into consideration the proposal launched by Spain to resume this debate and put an end to the hateful (for many) time change. Images | Ales Krivec Moncloa In Xataka | The time change is not inevitable. There are many countries that have already gotten rid of it

We believed that astronauts from the Apollo missions left the earth. Actually, they did not completely abandon the atmosphere

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The idea that space begins where heaven ceases to be blue is a story for children. Decades of scientific research show that the Earth’s atmosphere It is much bigger than it was believed. Not even the 12 people who stepped on the moon abandoned at all their influence. Where the earth ends. As Explain the expert in heliophysics From NASA, Doug Rowland, there is no clear border. “The atmosphere does not stop at Everest, or where the planes fly. It continues and continues, becoming less and less dense as you go up.” The International Space Station, which orbits our planet about 400 kilometers high, experiences sufficient air resistance to need a periodic impulse. Otherwise, it would fall back to earth. But the real surprise came after Decades of Observations of Soho (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), a joint mission of ESA and NASA. To the moon and beyond. A study Based on data from the Soho Observatory, he revealed that the outermost layer of our atmosphere, a faint cloud of hydrogen atoms called Geocorona, extends up to 630,000 kilometers, almost twice the distance from the earth to the moon. When astronauts from the Apollo 16 mission installed the first telescope on the moon in 1972, they captured an image of the geocorone shining in ultraviolet light. What they didn’t know was that they were still inside her. In words of Igor Baliukinmain author of the study: “The moon flies through the atmosphere of the earth.” Oxygen on the moon. The presence of the earth on the moon is not limited to hydrogen. Earth oxygen also arrives at our satellite. It occurs for about five days a month, when the moon passes through the Magnetocola of the Earth, the magnetic tail of our planet. Every time it happens, Oxygen ions are accelerated to the satellite and are embedded in the lunar soil. Researchers believe that this process has occurring 2.4 billion years, which means that lunar regolite could keep a record of the evolution of our own atmosphere. The “official” border of space. The Atmosphere is divided into layers: Trophosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, termosfera and exosphere. The latter, the exosphere, starts about 700 kilometers high and merges with the solar wind about 10,000 kilometers. But their particles are so scarce and so scattered that they can escape towards space. The “official” border of the space is, by convention, the line of karm, located 100 kilometers from altitude. It is considered the point at which traditional aeronautics is no longer possible due to lack of air. However, the geocorone, the luminous part of the exosphere, is the proof that the atmospheric influence of our planet comes much, much further. Image | POT In Xataka | The most prolific astronomer in the world is a complete stranger. Has discovered half of the moons of the solar system

Tamara was the background of the junk television barrel of the two thousands. Netflix has managed to reinvent it completely

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The nostalgia It has absolutely unsuspected vericuetos. Who gets out of fashion Retro video gamesthe eighty cinema franchiseseven the looks that we thought we would not see anymore It is one thing. But recover an absolutely dependent television fauna from a very specific point of our pop culture (realities absolutely outdatedthe sagas of characters that seemed fiction but were very real, the excessive and openly feast aesthetics of the beginning of the century) is something very different. Superstar. The culmination of this return from that literally indescribable area of the two thousands has worked with the series’Superstar‘, a highly fictional chronicle of those years produced by the Javis, created by Nacho vigalo and issued by Netflix. Tamara and Margarita Sixdedos, Leonardo Dantés, Paco Porras, Tony Genil, Loly Álvarez and Arlequín make up an absolutely locked microcosm in itself and that is equally eccentric in the series. And a concert, tip. In a line curiously parallel to the argument of the series (which, we insist, is far from being a biopic to use), this new wave of interest in tamarism has the most unexpected effect of all: A YURENA MACROCONGERthe artist previously known as Tamara, on March 23, 2026 at the Vistalegre Palace in Madrid. The event will be titled ‘Yurena: the concert that was never’ and its promoter describes it as “A unique event that rewrites the story of an artist to which television turned into a phenomenon and time, in legend. “ Reinvent the past. The main characteristic of the series is that (unlike previous incursions of the Javis in certain areas of the past, such as’Poison‘) At no time is it intended to be a reliable portrait of what happened, but each episode focuses on one of the characters involved to tell that so television that is “its truth.” To the extreme: if one of them said he had Michael Jackson eating macaroni at his house, we see him; If another said that he was kidnapped by a sect that abused him and revealed plans for the underground control of Spanish reality, we see it. And what remains. Because the Spain of that time gives for much more: of the imitators of Chiquito de la Calzada (an indescribable phenomenon already in itself) to the guests of the program of Jesús Quintero, going through the fauna of the film of Jesús Cárdenas or the Guirigais that each night were mounted in the programs of Javier Sardá and Pepe Navarro. A true lack of control, noisy and subversive, which is portrayed and analyzed in ‘superstar’ with a very personal author, Vigalondo, where they are, on an absolutely novel plane, Tamara and David Lynch. Maybe the only honest way of seeing it. The return. Of course, ‘superstar’ has not entered the most watched international top of Netflix, because tamarism is an absolutely Spanish phenomenon, incomprehensible beyond our borders. But it has served to unleash a new wave of tamarist claim: the concert in Vistalegre will be its culmination, although as the artist says, She has never stopped acting. Because tamarism never left, it continued in our subconscious, waiting for the time to come back. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Netflix premiered the first scene generated with AI in an original production, and nobody realized: the moment has arrived

The United States and China seem to compete in ia. The reality is that they play completely different sports

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Everyone talks about the “career of AI” between China and the United States as if it were a competition where one will win and another will lose. But in reality there is no career because everyone is playing a different sport. The United States invested 100,000 million dollars in AI in the first half of 2025, pursuing AGI as a technological religion. His philosophy is clear: spending billions today to control the future tomorrow. Giant proprietary models, infinite parameters, the search for the Holy Grail of the AGI. China, meanwhile, has not allocated amounts equivalent to its technological sector. Its approach is as pragmatic as Chinese culture itself: to capture market now, monetize in applications later. This divergence does not arise from abstract philosophies, but three concrete structural forces: Chips scarcity. The OCTOBER US SANCTIONS 2022 They cut Chinese access to the most powerful NVIDIA chips. The paradoxical result: China was forced to innovate in efficiency. Deepseek He managed to match the performance of GPT-4 spending eighteen times less money. Technological restriction forced an economic advantage that the United States, with all its hardware, cannot easily replicate. Capital scarcity. The Chinese risk capital collapsed after the regulations of 2022. Chinese the startups collect funds only after demonstrating product working and real metric uses. In this context, opening the source code becomes the smartest strategy: free marketing, viral adoption and developer ecosystem without acquisition cost. BAICHUAN AI AND ZHIPU AI They achieved financing from Alibaba and Tencent precisely after publishing their open models and demonstrating traction. The concentration of applications. The average Chinese user uses less than ten apps per month, almost all channeled through Wechat or Alipay. The American is around thirty. This structural difference completely changes the penetration strategy. In China, who conquered those few points of mass distribution conquers the entire market. In the United States, you have to fight in dozens of different fronts. That is why it makes sense that Chinese companies open their models: they need adoption speed in those bottlenecks, do not own defenses. The most revealing case is how Wechat chose Deepseek Above Yuanbao, Tencent’s own. The decision exemplifies well Chinese pragmatic mentality: the functional product triumphs over corporatism. Yuanbao was his own, but Deepseek was better. Wechat needed quality already, not in two years. Twenty Chinese car manufacturers and more than one hundred hospitals have made similar decisions, integrating Deepseek into their systems. Each integration expands the ecosystem and increases change costs. Behind the Chinese strategy there is also an emotional component that should not be underestimated. After decades being labeled Copycats, Opening the source code has become a way of demonstrating real innovative capacity. Publishing the weights of a model is equivalent to saying: “Here is our work, examine it, improve it if they can.” It is national pride turned into business strategy. The United States continues to build the most powerful AI in the Universe. China is already selling functional to half the planet. Sam Altman talks about the AGI As a civilizational destination, Chinese executives apply the proverb “interests cannot be eaten” and seek immediate monetization. Both can win their respective sports, but it would be absurd to ask who is winning the World Cup when one plays football and the other to basketball. The interesting question It is not who will win the race, but what will happen when in five years One has built the perfect AGI and the other controls the AI infrastructure that uses half the planet. In Xataka | The Chinese government does not trust Nvidia: its survival in China right now hangs from a thread Outstanding image | Xataka

The straps in oil completely sank Stellantis’s reputation. But it wasn’t the only

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The Stellantis Puretch engines scandal still resonates in the industry. It is not for less, because hundreds of thousands of vehicles from the automobile group were affected, passing through everything A Front of Facts and Compensation that has completely broken the reputation of the company. However, it is worth mentioning that the wet distribution belt technology caused by Stellantis’s collapse It is not exclusive to the Franco-Toalian group: Ford and Volkswagen also used the damn belt bathed in oil, although with different consequences. Revolutionary technology, in theory. The story began with an apparently brilliant idea: eliminating the expensive maintenance of the distribution strap and creating a system that would last the useful life of the vehicle. The solution was a belt bathed in oil that, according to engineers, would reduce friction and increase durability to 240,000 kilometers. The oil should provide greater elasticity to rubber and protect the wear component. Status of the distribution strap of a Peugeot 3004 after 40,000 km. Image: OGS MEChanics Ford, the pioneer he rectified in time. The American brand It was the first to implement this technology Wet belt, even before EcoBoost engines reached the market. Ford installed the system inside the engine instead of using a traditional side box, but when the first problems began to appear, the company did not think twice. Without getting into large trouble or generating media scandals, he replaced the belt with a chain in its three -cylinder eco -ost engines with deactivation. Volkswagen’s strategy. The German group also adopted the wet strap, mainly in diesel engines such as the three cylinders 1.6 TDI and even in the 2.0 TDI. However, its implementation It was less risky: The wet belt did not drive the camshafts, but only the oil pump. This crucial technical difference explains why the consequences for Volkswagen have not been as devastating as Stellantis lives. Between the lines. The key difference is that Stellantis turned the wet strap into the main element of the distribution system, the person in charge of synchronizing the valve train. When it fails, the consequences are catastrophic, assuming breakdowns of several thousand euros that can leave the engine completely unusable. Ford and Volkswagen, on the other hand, limited their use to less critical functions or quickly rectified when they detected the first symptoms. Why the system failed. In trichylindrical engines, especially in urban use, fuel drops without burn are mixed with crankcase oil. This abrasive mixture prematurely degrades the belt, and the particles detached obstruct filters and ducts, causing insufficiency in oil pressure. Do not stop the fault in time can end up destroying the engine, so yes, The controversy was not in vain. The problem was magnified in Stellantis because the group was more optimistic than the rest to incorporate this technology. While Ford solved the problem with relative discretion and Volkswagen kept him under control (he would only miss that at that time he had another stumbling block like that of his diesel models), Stellantis has been involved in a scandal of gigantic proportions. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles with 1.0 and 1.2 Puretech engines manufactured between 2012 and 2023 have been called to review. The company has had to expand guarantees, create reimbursement systems and even change CEO, with Antonio Filosa under command after the dismissal of Carlos Tavares. How to know if your car is affected. If you have doubts about whether your car mounts chain or the problem tank bathing in oil that caused all this debacle, you can check the motor code. The 1.2 Puretch with chain (insurance) engines have “EB2lted” or “EB2LTEDH2” and are present in models such as Peugeot 408, Opel Frontera and Fiat 600. The problematic engines are mainly in Citroën C3 and C4, Peugeot 208, 308 and 3008, Opel Corsa and Mokka, and DS 3 and DS 7, manufactured between 2012 and 2023. Stellantis expanded the guarantees and guarantees and offers reimbursements for repairsbut the ideal would be for you to detect the failure in time to save a good disgust and claim to the manufacturer. Cover image | Cat Magazine In Xataka | “The first thing, lower the windows”: using the car air conditioning is no mystery. Use it well, yes

I thought I had a problem with the ABS of my car, but it caught me in surprise to see that it was something completely unexpected: rats

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The ABS light flashing on the dashboard is never a good sign. Almost none Witter of the dashboard It is, but when the engine witness also adds, you start imagining four -digit figures in the workshop budget. The funny thing is that when I took my car to fix it, I discovered something that I never imagined what would happen: The rats ended up biting several cables Internal of my car. The initial diagnosis. When I arrived at the workshop with the warning lights on, the mechanic, after an inspection of the car, assured me that I could change everything The ABS system. A new one for my Seat Ibiza TDI 1.9 of 2005 can be a rather important expense, one of those expenses that you think if you better pass it, since it is dangerously approaches the price through which I could sell the car today. The price of the second -hand and scrapping ABS system, the thing changes. One can lead normally if the ABS does not work, but it is a risk for security, since it compromises the emergency braking and we do not have that help that the car gives us at critical moments, allowing our brakes to end up blocking. The real problem. After almost a week in the workshop and a more detailed inspection, the mechanic discovered the authentic cause of the failure: the ABS system cables and some that communicate with the engine They had been bitten. It was not a normal wear or component failure, but the rats had been roying the car cables. For a rat, gnawing cables and objects that are in its path is their day to day, since their teeth do not stop growing throughout their lives and need some means to polish their teeth. What a pity they had to run into my car. Unexpected, but in a way, relieved. What seemed like a serious problem with the brake system and the emergency light of the engine was solved with a cable repair. The joke came out for about 120 euros. A considerable relief compared to the complete change of the ABS that initially the mechanic had raised. From the workshop they repaired the damaged cables and the dashboard warning indicators were turned off. The background problem. Now the real challenge is not in the car, but in the garage. It is a private garage under a floors building where several vehicles park. Days before I had already seen a rat that was shot from under my car to a hole that is right next to my parking space. From the workshop they recommended preventive measures such as spraying in the vain motor or placing camphor balls, especially useful when the car remains a long time stopped. Of course, this should be done with the car standing and cold. I bought the spray as a temporary measure until they finished solving the hole in the garage. And now what. The priority is to cover the garage hole where the rats access, since the alternative remedies will be of little if the problem persists right next where I appear. Fortunately, it seems that garage insurance will cover the workshop spending, which good news for that part. In addition, we are already mobilizing the community to solve the problem of rats. I could have changed their garage directly, although things are not currently to make this decision lightly. We will see what everything is left. Cover image | Michael Fusert and Svetozar Cenisev In Xataka | The best -selling cars in 2024 and 2025 in Spain

A third of Spain will be completely dark for one or two minutes. The astronomical event of the century is approaching

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We still have the healthy envy of seeing the Spectacular images of the total solar eclipse that toured Mexico, the United States and Canada just over a year ago. It was an event that paralyzed a continent, especially in the so -called “totality strip”, the areas that were completely dark. Well, the next great cosmic appointment has Spain as a global protagonist. And we will not have to wait long. August 12, 2026. In just over a year the first total visible solar eclipse will take place since 1905, a unique opportunity in more than a century. Together with Iceland, which will enjoy 58 seconds of totality, we will be the only country in the world that can see all the phases of the eclipse. And let’s be sincere: in the middle of August, our possibilities of having clear skies are considerably greater than those of the Icelanders. Context. A total eclipse occurs when the moon aligns perfectly between the sun and the earth, projecting a shadow that immerses the lucky ones in a twilight darkness in the middle of the day. In the 2026 event, this shadow, the strip of totality, will have about 300 kilometers wide and will cross Spain from west to east, from Galicia to the Balearic Islands. The autonomous communities that will be under the shadow cone of the totality are Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragón, Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. Madrid will be right on the edge, with a fleeting totality in the north of the region. But the rest of the country will not stay empty and witness a very partial partial eclipse, with a coverage of more than 90% (and up to 74% in the Canary Islands, with Lanzarote as the island with better seats for the show). Almost two minutes. An essential tool to plan the observation of the eclipse to the millisecond is the Xavier Jubier interactive map. This resource is the gold standard for eclipses hunters because it allows you to click anywhere on the map to obtain the exact hours of each phase, the duration of the totality, the altitude of the sun in the area … The eclipse will start just before sunset. The totality phase will take place around 20:30 (summer peninsular time), with the sun already very low on the horizon. This turns observation into a race to counterreloj against sunset. In cities like Oviedo, the totality will last 1 minute and 48 seconds, only a few more moments in Burgos, León or the Island of Mallorca, which is emerging as one of the most tourist places where to see the eclipse (with the disadvantage that the sun is put before in the peninsular northwest). Safety first. As much as I tempt us, look directly in the sun, even partially eclipsed, can cause permanent eye damage. During all partial phases (before and after the totality), it is necessary to wear certified glasses to see eclipses or indirect methods to observe it. For the rest, it will be enough to look for a high observation place, with a horizon clear of mountains or buildings to the west so as not to miss the one that will undoubtedly be the astronomical event of the century. In Xataka | Mars eclipses are ridiculous compared to ours. The reason is an extraordinary numerical chance

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