After I wrote an article about spending $0 charging a couple of electric cars over nearly 3 years in Florida, some commenters chimed in with “friendly” (or not so friendly) criticism that I shouldn’t be grubbing off of the rest of society and not paying to charge my electric car, and also that I and […]

The auto market is an interesting place. There is a tremendous amount of variation. There are hundreds of models, and while there are certain ones that are more popular than others, millions of buyers decide each year to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a model that millions of others hate — mostly because

Within the last week, SpaceX’s South Texas Starship factory appears to have kicked things into high gear and are now assembling the first orbital-class Super Heavy booster prototype at a breakneck pace. While the assembly of the Super Heavy known as Booster 4 (B4) wasn’t too dissimilar to what CEO Elon Musk described as a

Ride1Up disrupted the value e-bike scene with a range of intelligently engineered, beautifully designed e-bikes packing surprisingly premium features. After reviewing the Ride1Up 700 Series Step Through earlier this year, we were excited to take the more affordable Core-5 for a spin. The Ride1Up Core-5 pairs a slick step-through or high-step frame design with an

In past articles, I’ve had some pretty tough things to say about the second generation Nissan LEAF. The #Rapidgate issue, where the passively-cooled battery heats up and charging rates slow down more than previous generations, was a particularly bad one. Customers familiar with the first generation LEAF didn’t know that the vehicle was going to