Read my story at The Observer. This Saturday, the first of Ferrari’s polarizing EVs, the Luce, will head to auction at RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week. With a presale estimate above $1.1 million, nearly double its retail base price, plenty of people will be watching closely to […]
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Behind This $25K Electric Truck Is Jeff Bezos’ ‘Made in America’ Mission
Read my story at The Observer. Last week, Slate Auto, an electric car startup backed by Jeff Bezos and led by a group of former Amazon executives, announced the price tag of the most affordable electric pickup truck in America: $24,950. It’s extremely bare-bones, but its pricing and design have captured headlines […]
This Bezos-Backed Startup is Launching a sub-$25,000 Electric Truck, but Will People Buy it?
Read my story at Inc Magazine. This week, Slate Auto, the buzzy Bezos-backed startup, revealed the pricing on the cheapest new EV on sale in America. The bare-bones “Blank Slate” pickup starts at $24,950 before the destination charge, making it the least expensive new electric vehicle […]
An Interview with GM CEO, Mary Barra
Read my exclusive interview with GM CEO, Mary Barra, at The Verge. GM was the first major US automaker to make the promise to go all-electric by 2035, just four years ago. Those promises have since turned into rough estimates under the second Donald Trump presidency, […]
The Hyundai Ioniq 9 Has Room to Grow
Can Hyundai’s Ioniq 9 upend the trend of declining EV sales in an increasingly hostile political and economic environment?
Scout Motors Plans to Upend the Dealer Model
My story for The Verge on Scout Motors move to exclude dealers.
Will Zeekr’s IPO Get Americans Excited About EVs?
My story on the Zeekr IPO and what it means for Chinese EV adoption in the U.S., for The Observer.
Powering a Mansion with an Electric Pickup Truck
My story on GM Energy at The Verge.
The Future of Electric Cars Hinges on a Dongle
My work for The Atlantic.
Rivian’s CEO talks R2 and R3 launch, and why he has ‘complete certainty’ EVs will win
In a packed theater in Laguna Beach on Thursday morning, Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe opened his presentation to resounding whoops from the audience, well before the company unveiled its three buzzy new vehicles, the Rivian R2, R3, and R3X. While it’s not uncommon […]
The Road Ahead for Rural EV Adoption is Rough
Read my story at The Verge. Every day, Mitch Stults commutes about 60 miles each way from his home in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a town of 17,000 people, to his job as a sales manager for a manufactured homebuilder in Cullman. Stults was driving a […]