While the Hormuz Strait in Iran remains blocked, farmers in the US and around the world are feeling the pinch and rising costs are impacting what will be grown this spring.
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Tesla Cybertruck Setbacks Mount as Top Engineers Announce Departures
Read my story at The Observer Tesla recently lost several key executives responsible for its most well-known electric vehicle models. Siddhant Awasthi, a rising star at Tesla who previously led engineering for the Cybertruck and, most recently, the Model 3, announced in a LinkedIn post on Sunday […]
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe on the Carmaker’s High-Stakes Return to Formula 1
Read my story from the Observer. Honda has moved in and out of Formula 1 multiple times over the past 60 years, depending on the state of business. “Business is going good sometimes, and going bad sometimes,” Honda Global CEO Toshihiro Mibe told a roundtable of reporters, including Observer, in […]
BMW Leans into Electrification with the New BMW iX3
BMW continues to lean into EVs even though the political and cultural climate is changing. This is my story for The Observer.
An ICE raid at an EV factory raises fears about US instabilityAn ICE Raid
Read my story at The Verge. International automotive companies like Hyundai spend billions of dollars building plants and training workers in the US, and the ICE raid is likely to have a long-term cooling effect on those investments. by Abigail Bassett A banner depicting an Immigration […]
The Next Generation of Start Up Funding: A Blueprint in Alabama
Watch the full panel at Fast Company here. Venture capital fuels the world of startups. But for founders located outside major startup hubs such as San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, capital often remains just out of reach—no matter how promising the idea. At […]
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, […]
Cadillac’s advanced manufacturing techniques pioneered on the $360,000 Celestiq
Read my story at Autmotive News. Like most automakers, General Motors uses its highest-end models to develop manufacturing technologies and features that may eventually trickle down into its high-volume models.
Cadillac Celestiq First Drive: A $350,000 Bespoke Vehicle that’s Designed to Revitalize Cadillac
Read my story at The Verge The first hands-on experience I had with the $360,000, ultraluxury Cadillac Celestiq was as a backseat passenger. It was mid-April, and I was on the way to a dinner in West Hollywood. While GM insists most Celestiq buyers are […]
Can this new automaker actually build a sub-$20,000 EV?
The myth of the sub $25,000 car persists. Can Slate Auto make this truck viable?
Lucid Gravity First Drive: An Electric SUV without Compromises
First drive of the Lucid Gravity, an electric vehicle with plenty of tech gadgets.
Here’s What The #TeslaTakeDown Protests Looked Like Around the World
My story for The Verge on the anti-Tesla protests that happened around the world on March 29.