Cláudio Afonso
Cláudio Afonso is the founder and lead writer of EV, a news blog dedicated to the global electric vehicle industry, with coverage that combines product launches, delivery data, and corporate inflection points at major manufacturers. His work stands out for the way it tracks individual models and companies over time, returning to the same vehicles, executives, and markets as new information emerges. He approaches the automobile beat through the lens of electric mobility, treating Nio, Lucid, Tesla and their ecosystems as an interconnected story rather than isolated headlines.
Nio's ES8 and Delivery Pace
Afonso devotes sustained attention to Nio, especially the ES8 SUV, following the model through launches, new configurations, and delivery milestones.
In one recent piece he reports on Nio opening pre-orders for a five-seat version of the ES8, anchoring the story in the June 28 timeline and positioning the new configuration as an evolution of Nio’s best‑selling three‑row SUV. Other articles focus on the ES8 topping 120,000 cumulative deliveries and the company’s expectation to deliver between 80,644 and 85,644 electric vehicles across May and June, using precise ranges and historical pace to show how Nio’s volume is stabilising. Across these stories he uses concrete numbers, dates, and model designations to frame Nio’s strategy, highlighting how changes in seating layout, pricing and output fit into a broader effort to sustain demand for a flagship vehicle.
His Nio coverage frequently links product details to business performance, drawing a line between SUVs like the ES8 and the company’s wider delivery guidance and market ambitions. Rather than treating each update as a standalone product brief, he builds a running narrative about Nio’s execution, referencing prior deliveries and planned volumes to show how the firm is trying to smooth its monthly pace. That repeated focus on the same nameplate and its metrics makes his work especially useful for tracking how Nio’s core models underpin its growth.
Lucid, Middle East Expansion and Executive Turbulence
Afonso’s coverage of Lucid adds a corporate and geopolitical layer to his EV beat. In an exclusive report on Lucid, he details the ousting of the company’s product chief after years of production delays being misattributed elsewhere, treating the personnel change as a culmination of internal strain around product timelines. The piece traces the executive’s tenure and the history of misattribution, presenting the ouster as both a governance event and a signal about accountability for delayed vehicles.
The tone is direct and factual, and the story fits into a pattern of his work where executive moves are interpreted through their impact on product delivery and brand credibility.
His reporting also follows Lucid into the Middle East, where he has highlighted how the region’s public fleets are adopting models like the Gravity SUV as part of a shift toward a post‑oil transportation era. In that context he connects Lucid’s vehicles to the broader strategic vision of regional authorities preparing for an electric future, using examples from public security fleets and infrastructure investments to show the company’s role in that transition.
Together, the Lucid executive piece and the Middle East coverage show his interest in how boardroom decisions and regional policy shape the trajectory of individual EV brands.
Tesla Full Self‑Driving and Regulation
Afonso’s beat also extends to driver‑assistance technology and its regulatory oversight, with Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving (Supervised) system a recurring subject.
In one article, he notes Denmark’s provisional approval of the system, identifying the country as the fourth European state to authorise it and situating the decision within a sequence of prior approvals. The coverage emphasises the formal status of the approval and the “supervised” framing, underscoring the gap between branding and regulatory language. This focus on the interplay between technology marketing and legal classification adds a regulatory dimension to his automobile reporting that goes beyond vehicle specs.
Founder‑Reporter at EV and CARBA
Afonso is not only the principal journalist at EV but also the person who created the outlet and the company behind it.
EV is described as a news blog focused on the electric vehicle sector and owned by CARBA, a communications‑focused company he founded in 2021, with EV launched later that year as its main project. He has written publicly about restarting CARBA and the EV news blog and marking the anniversary of that decision, as well as welcoming additional team members, which indicates a hands‑on role in both editorial output and business development. Professional profiles describe him as an EV enthusiast and as founder of EV and CARBA, reinforcing that his reporting is closely tied to the identity of the outlet itself.
Beyond the site, he extends his work into a daily newsletter under the CARBA banner, using that format to deliver regular briefings on the EV sector.
Social posts around EV and its articles show him actively promoting pieces on Nio, Lucid and Tesla, sustaining a near‑daily news rhythm that mirrors the pace of the industry he covers. This combination of founder, publisher and beat reporter means his coverage tends to track stories over long arcs, returning to the same companies and models as new data, executive decisions or regulatory moves emerge. For communications professionals looking at the electric vehicle space, his work is distinguished by that continuity and by a clear preference for stories where product details, delivery numbers and corporate actions intersect.
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