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 […]
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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 […]
The House that Climate Change Will Build
Read my story at The Verge. When it comes to the American dream, home ownership looms large. “It’s that weird combination of stability and security,” Carlos Martín, the project director for the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, […]
Is AI the Answer to Sustainable Farming?
Read my story at The Verge. What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They spend most of their time grappling with one looming problem: climate change. In 2020, Gilwoo Lee, the robotics expert, and Casey Call, […]
2023 BMW i7 Review: An All-Electric Movie Experience
Read my story at The Verge. Want a glimpse of the future of luxury cars? The BMW i7 is where it’s at. And the 31-inch, 8K drop-down movie screen for rear passengers is just the icing on the cake. By Abigail Bassett If you grew […]
Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel
The Alphabet company got together with Geely’s Zeekr to build its next-generation autonomous people mover, and it’s as notable for what it’s missing (steering wheel, side-view mirrors) as for what it’s got. Read the full story at The Verge. Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous taxi company […]
Lucid’s Top-of-the-Line Sedan that Does 0-60 in Under Two Seconds
Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors unveiled the new Lucid Air Sapphire Edition, a top-of-the-line sedan, which the company says will do zero to 60mph in under two seconds, zero to 100mph in under four seconds, and the quarter-mile in under nine seconds. That’s tremendously […]