Memeburn

Memeburn is an online platform dedicated to delivering news and updates about the digital landscape in emerging markets. Established by South African entrepreneur Matthew Buckland, this Cape Town-based site highlights the latest happenings in social media, mobile technology, and broader tech developments. It has hosted interviews with notable figures such as Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of WordPress; Foursquare's creator, Dennis Crowley; Evernote's CEO, Phil Libin; Richard Branson, co-creator of Google Now; along with Naspers CEO Koos Bekker, Wired's founder Chris Anderson, and StumbleUpon's CEO Mark Bartels. Memeburn pays special attention to the BRICS nations, innovations in the digital realm, viral marketing strategies, and overall tech trends.

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Slate single cab BEV pickup is superlative simplicity

2 weeks ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Slate promises to revolutionize the pickup truck market with its new single cab BEV. With backing from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the Michigan company has revealed the ‘Truck’. An ultra-affordable interpretation of everything the market and forum lurkers have been pining for: an essential and affordable BEV with a loadbed.
Red Bull marketing nous comes to Lucid

2 weeks ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Red Bull is the standard for performance marketing. The Austro-Thai energy drinks company is a dominant presence in power sports, including its winning F1 team. From media to indirect product marketing, Red Bull is the school for ace marketeers. And now Lucid has an experienced Red Bull specialist as its Vice President of Marketing: Akerho Oghoghomeh Akerho served at Red Bull for several years, rising to Senior Vice President Marketing.
Gravity is what Tesla should be worrying about

4 weeks ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Gravity. Immutable but never misunderstood. And there’s no misunderstanding the product mission with Lucid’s three-row luxury SUV either: it’s literally a moment of Gravity for luxury all-terrain capable SUVs.The Californian luxury EV brand, often classed as Tesla-besting, has struggled to balance R&D costs and cashflow expectations. It’s the same issues that Tesla had to navigate during its first decade: developing pioneering EV technology and integration while a market is still establishing.
L2 charging and dwell times beat DCFC

1 month ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

EV transition headlines are dominated by news of greater range, bigger batteries and more powerful chargers. But are the stats with each EV battery and charging power breakthrough ignoring the premise and promise that drew many early EV adopters: the value and convenience of home charging? Investment in advanced battery chemistries has resulted in the development of a current generation of EVs that rival the real-world range of similarly sized gasoline vehicles.
Tires and fleet cost realities in a 25% auto tariff market

1 month ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Tires aren’t semiconductors, but they’re a vital automotive safety component. Your vehicle can run with a slight semiconductor failure and reduced features, but it can’t run with failed tires. There are many unintended consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to increase tariffs on automotive imports. From complete vehicles to the tiniest components, the integrated global supply chain, known only to industry insiders, will now become a repricing reality for all American car owners.
Also has a aeronautics PhD with rider insights leading

1 month ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Also is the latest development for Rivian, with the EV brand spinning-off its in-house micromobility lab into a new company. Supported by $105m of series B funding and located in the enabling environment of California, Also is conceptually tasked with developing next-generation e-bikes, scooters and crucially, compact EVs. It’s a strategic move by Rivian, which has invested more than a decade of R&D into the large pickup and SUV EVs that the conventional market demands.
Ranger 3.0 V6 platinum proves how far double cabs have evolved

1 month ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Ranger 3.0 V6 platinum. It’s Ford luxury-grade double cab in South Africa, and the only trim level if you want a V6 diesel engine. Ford’s global product planning specialists have learned from decades of American customer needs that you can create a robust ladder frame vehicle with a luxury cabin architecture. Think of it as Lincoln meets double cab.
G63 AMG much better with 275/50/20 Grabber AT3s

2 months ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

G63 AMG. In a world of aerodynamic design needs, spacious cabin architectures and air-suspension ride quality, this is Mercedes-Benz’s very successful outlier SUV. Proud of its military origins, the latest G63 AMG integrates exceptional hand-built Austrian assembly quality with a proven, overengineered, steel ladder-frame chassis. Few luxury SUVs are built like this anymore, with most designs using the monocoque approach for superior steering dynamics.
Lucid replaces CEO and CTO with COO

2 months ago | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Lucid is the EV enthusiast’s car company. The California luxury EV brand has been particularly bold in its execution, creating dramatic tri-motor powered EVs with an unrivalled driving experience.
Golf 8.5 at SA dealers this autumn

Feb 8, 2025 | memeburn.com | Lance Branquinho

Golf 8.5 and VW’s MQB Evo mechanical engineering. It won’t mean much to anyone who isn’t an automotive technical strategist, but it’s what made the eight-generation VW Golf a terrific driving experience. Initially developed for the Golf 7 at a rumoured cost of $8bn, the MQB platform delivered pioneering refinement and driving dynamics. It truly defined the idea of a ‘big-car’ feel for a hatchback. For Golf 8, engineers enhanced the chassis, creating MQB Evo.