Raphael Orlove's posts

France just voted to ban all short-range domestic flights that could be covered by train instead. It’s a healthy…

There is no amount of reading into the history of General Motors that won’t bring up some comically incoherent…

Zenvo would like to remind you that it, a supercar company most famous for its car catching on fire on TV, does…

The first Tesla, as we all know, was a heavily re-worked Lotus Elise transformed into something novel: An electric…

Elon Musk has a simple solution for Tesla cars equipped with cameras capable of spying: Just don’t turn them on!…

There’s a story I’ve run into twice now, and it concerns car companies turning away enthusiasts from getting a shot…

For years now, car companies have been making electric cars but not a profit off of them. The price of developing an…

Tesla is getting into it with the National Labor Relations Board, but it’s not about suppressing unions or poor…

Increasingly large, heavy trucks and SUVs are eating up our efficiency gains for fuel economy, crushing our car…

I don’t know why this just occurred to me, but the Honda CR-V is hideous. It’s an awful looking car, and it has…

As the day when our robot overlords take control of Earth away from humans approaches, it remains unwise to taunt,…

All performance cars are silly, but no new one is as silly as a nearly 6,000-pound SUV advertising its front…

With tens of thousands of Americans dying in on our roads every year, it’s clear something has to give. Either we’re…

If you think people are going to just line up for electric Ford F-150s next year, you’ve got another thing coming.…

We have said it before, but VW’s Dieselgate will never end. The German auto giant has been busy pivoting to electric…

You wouldn’t think much of a Peugeot 607 looking at it. You probably wouldn’t think much sitting in it, either. But…

Every day we tell ourselves “Ford isn’t going to have any problems with this product launch” and every day we are…

It is increasingly clear to me that I will never own my dream car. Never drive it. I’ll only ever come close to it,…

There’s something strange about this Alpina B8 Gran Coupe. Normally there’s a fairly clear delineation between the…

While Volkswagen is content to give Europe a $25,000 EV in 2025, Germans can get one for $13,000 right now. The Dacia…