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All in opinion
If you’ve followed me for a while on The Watt Car, you’ll know I’m one of the biggest cheerleaders for EVs out there. But I’m not so delusional as to think there will not be some speed bumps to large-scale EV adoption…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Join The Watt Car contributors Edward A. Sanchez and Philip Royle in the inaugural The Watt Car Podcast as they discuss this week’s automotive electrification news…
BY THE WATT CAR STAFF
The fear or resistance to EVs is usually based in one of three things: nostalgia, ignorance, or resistance to change. I’d like to address the second of those…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
If General Motors leadership is still scratching their heads as to why everyone isn’t hailing their pledge to go all-electric by 2035 with unquestioning adulation and affirmation…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Tesla and Elon Musk have never been shy to eschew convention and make bold steps to go where none – or few – have gone before…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
In a statement this week, the U.S. Department of Energy released its listing of the 50 states in order of EV charging stations per 100,000 population…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Since General Motors’ CES 2021 presentation and accompanying video, the automotive interwebs have been lit up about the possibility of a Corvette-branded performance SUV, most likely also an EV…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
On Jan. 8, 2021, General Motors unveiled its new corporate logo. Gone is the formal stern, dark blue all-caps “GM” that has been the official corporate logo for decades…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Hyundai and Apple are in talks. About what? The details are murky at best. But from what can be gleaned, it’s likely to do with autonomous driving or EV battery technology. Or both. Or Neither…
BY PHIL ROYLE
2021, you hope, will be better than 2020. That said, in the world of automotive electrification, 2020 was a spectacular year…
BY PHIL ROYLE
About one year ago, utterly clueless of what the year held in store, I helped launch this website. The goal was twofold…
BY PHIL ROYLE
The Watt Car is more than a year old now, and aside from the unrelenting bad news of COVID-19, the other topic getting a lot of coverage this year is vehicle electrification…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Ever since 2014, there has been internet chatter about a possible “Apple Car” and multiple reports about the company’s “Project Titan”…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Will Mazda’s incremental electrification approach be too-little, too-late?
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
In response to a reporter question at the Axel Springer award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he would be open to merger discussions…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
The Nikola Badger pickup, former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton’s CGI-based troll of the Tesla Cybertruck, has been trolled itself…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
You may have heard about the Apple TV+ series “Long Way Up” starring Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Being in the automotive journalism field for the better part of 20 years, I’ve worked in just about every niche and focus of automotive journalism…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Somewhat unexpectedly to many, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23, 2020, banning the sale of new internal-combustion passenger cars by 2035…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Tesla’s highly anticipated “Battery Day” on Sept. 22, 2020, while met with great interest by the company’s and Elon Musk’s die-hard fans, landed with a thud…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
