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Fisker reveals all-electric Alaska pickup, 3 other EV prototypes
Read my story over at TechCrunch There’s even a sports car and an off-road Ocean SUV in the mix Image Credits: Abigail Bassett Fisker, the automotive startup-turned publicly traded company founded by famed automotive designer Henrik Fisker, revealed Thursday night a dizzying array of EV prototypes, from […]
How Sabré Cook Earned a Spot on the Winningest Porsche Team in History
Read my story at Autoblog Sabré Cook is no stranger to being the only female racing driver on the grid. In fact, she’s the first and only female driver in the Porsche Carrera Cup. But behind the scenes, she’s had a cadre of powerful, talented […]
Hard To Handle
Abigail Bassett’s story in the June issue of Car & Driver Magazine.
Four Women, One Pink Lamborghini, and a Race to Win the Ultimate Endurance Test
Read my story at ELLE Magazine. Walk into any motorsport event, and you’ll be hit with the overpowering smell of gas and hot rubber, and the near-deafening sound of revving engines. Look closer—in the pits, behind the wheel, in the team trailers—and you’ll be struck […]
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 […]
Lucid Air Touring review: Some reservations
A review of the Lucid Air Touring model for TechCrunch.
Inside the Sony-Honda Afeela Concept
Read my Story at TechCrunch If it wasn’t clear earlier this year when Sony and Honda revealed the concept Afeela EV, it is now: This new joint-venture concept car is all about leveraging entertainment. The company, known as Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) is a joint venture between the […]
Here’s How Honda Designed a Car During the Pandemic
After March 2020, every automaker on the planet had to rethink how it leveraged technology. Everything from design and engineering to key partnerships needed to be rethought to keep businesses running. While Honda may not be the automaker you think of as pushing the automotive […]
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 […]
Faraday Future FF91: Far From Fully Baked
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF.—In a parking lot next to Peter Hay Hill sat two square-ish, blobby vehicles. They weren’t attractive, and they seemed both inordinately squat and huge, but there were plenty of looky-loos who wanted to check them out. One vehicle was a static “show […]
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 […]