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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
Aptera is one of those companies that has reinvented itself over the years as the fortunes and favor toward EVs has ebbed and flowed…
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
Toyota, the undisputed leader in hybrid technology, has been one of the biggest and most vocal holdouts against full battery electrics, instead using misleading terminology to describe its hybrids…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Electric cars have gone from fringe novelty to the latest transportation craze seemingly overnight. So the myriad of announcements and releases coming from both startups and established OEMs…
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
Mazda is the beloved underdog of the automotive industry. While other manufacturers have gunned for quantity, Mazda has seemingly been content sporting a lower sales volume…
BY PHIL ROYLE
The term “iconic” is thrown around rather loosely in describing cars. But if there’s one brand and model deserving of it, it’s the Jeep Wrangler…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
I’m just going to cut straight to it. The main reason the BMW iX has gotten so much attention over the last week is the presence of its exaggerated interpretation of BMW’s traditional “twin-kidney” grille…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
A few years ago, when a lot of EV models had a sub-100-mile range, the term “compliance cars” was coined to connote a minimum effort on part of the OEMs…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
It may have taken Tesla going from a niche brand to fast-growing global juggernaut, as well as regulations and emissions targets coming fast and furious…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
Since the mid-2010s, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has doubled down on its strategy of appealing to enthusiasts with big horsepower…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
General Motors unveiled a 1977 Chevrolet K5 Blazer for the 2020 SEMA 360 virtual event. Like the electrified C10 it showed last year…
BY EDWARD A. SANCHEZ
GMC finally (virtually) unveiled the highly anticipated Hummer EV pickup this week. Other than more styling and feature details, a lot of the specs had already been revealed…
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
The announcement came from the Monaco Yacht Club, because where else would you announce the launch of an eccentric new electric boat racing series…
BY BRIAN STARK
