Andrei Nedelea
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Personal motto:
"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself" - Ferdinand Porsche
He is a strong believer in the recent developments in green car tech and especially its entertaining applications. However, for him, green is more than just a brash color sprayed onto a supercar, it's a different way of thinking and perceiving modern car culture.
Electricity Guzzlers: Today’s Least Efficient EVs
18 Dec 2019, 12:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Today’s longest-range EVs are actually some of the least efficient when it comes to how many kWhs they use over a set distance. These long range electric cars achieve their excellent autonomy thanks to their high capacity battery packs ...
What Are Today's Most Efficient EVs?
16 Dec 2019, 15:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / When talking about EVs, the main point of interest is the size of their battery packs or how far they can take the vehicle on a single charge. But if you look at these vehicles more closely, you’ll see that some of them use their electricity ...
Why the Upcoming Toyota Yaris GR is a Game-Changing Hot Hatch
14 Dec 2019, 09:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / My predictions for what the next Toyota Yaris hot hatch was going to be like were incomplete - it’s going to be much better than anybody ever anticipated. When I wrote about the brief (and not very impressive) history Toyota has making hot...
Ugly BMW E65 7 Series Made Interesting Through Electric Conversion
13 Dec 2019, 16:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BMW made a mistake with the design of the E65 7 Series, a model nobody really seems to love, even today. That’s why you probably won’t care about this 745i whose V8 was ripped out to be replaced by a Lexus GS450h transmission (complete ...
Cadillac Tail Fins: Quick History and Evolution
13 Dec 2019, 14:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Cadillac isn’t the only manufacturer whose 1950s and 1960s cars had outlandish fins that served no real purpose other than to look daring, opulent and cool. When this styling feature first debuted, it was really more just a small upward ki...
Should Mercedes-Benz Build the GLA Coupe?
13 Dec 2019, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The coupe SUV is a trend started by the BMW X6 back in 2007 and it’s been adopted by other manufacturers; some have copied, pasted and adapted the X6 formula to their own designs, while others have tweaked it more. Yet there still aren&rsq...
All-Electric Float Plane Makes First Flight in Canada
13 Dec 2019, 09:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Electric airplanes still have a long way to go before they become a common presence in the sky, but steps are being made to get us closer to that scenario, in order to reduce air travel’s massive carbon footprint. Earlier this week, a full...
Jaguar Should Build This Four-Door F-Type to Challenge Mercedes-Benz
12 Dec 2019, 15:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mercedes-Benz has the four-door AMG GT 4-Door, Aston Martin makes the Rapide and Porsche has the Panamera, so why shouldn’t Jaguar have such a model of its own. And the recently refreshed F-Type seems like a good starting point, at least f...
Volvo Expands Its Lineup of Fully-Electric Trucks
12 Dec 2019, 08:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo already offers two EV trucks for short-distance in-city duties, but it plans to launch longer-range models for regional transportation roles. The very first electric models sold by the Swedish truck maker reached their customers a few mont...
Cool New Chevy Suburban Makes the Current Cadillac Escalade Irrelevant
11 Dec 2019, 13:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Chevrolet Suburban has always been mechanically related to the Cadillac Escalade, but the latter always looked and felt more posh and premium. Well, with the latest version of the Suburban, this really isn’t the case anymore. In fact, ...
What's With all the Reimagined Air-Cooled Porsche 911s?
11 Dec 2019, 12:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Porsche will sell you the current state of the art 911 from just under €120,000, yet there are those buyers who would spend many times more on a reimagined classic 911. Even though the latest 911, the 992, launched last year, is by many acc...
Here Are Some Winter-Defying Sports Cars
10 Dec 2019, 13:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Most people who own a sports car (as a second car) usually stow them away for the winter, and don’t drive them until it’s sunny and bright outside again. This is a safe way to ensure you don’t spin out and crash on an icy road...
Patent Reveals Possible Solution to Wipe the Tesla Cybertruck’s Flat Windscreen
6 Dec 2019, 15:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Tesla Cybertruck is a wacky-looking wedge on wheels and its windscreen is a flat slab of glass across its front. In concept form, it didn’t have any windscreen wipers, but it turns out Tesla has devised quite a special way to clean it. ...
Nikola Tre Is an EV Semi Truck With 644 horsepower, 400 Km Range
6 Dec 2019, 12:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Electric semi trucks are on their way and the first one won’t bear a Tesla badge. It’s the Nikola Tre, an Iveco-based model that was just revealed with promising specs and quite a futuristic look. The Tre is essentially an Iveco S-Wa...
Get Ready for the All-Electric Long-Haul Truck
6 Dec 2019, 11:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Electric vehicles are becoming available in all shapes, sizes and for different purposes, but as of right now, there are no battery-powered semi trucks yet on the market. Some are closer to being finished compared to others, but once they arrive...
Santa Claus Could Ditch His Sleigh for One of These Rides
6 Dec 2019, 09:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Choosing a car is a hard decision for anybody, but when you have to visit the entire planet in one night and you need a lot of carrying capacity, it gets even tougher. These are the things that Santa Claus needs to take into consideration whene...
EVs Are Online Stars, Less So in the Real World
5 Dec 2019, 21:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back when Tesla launched the Model S in 2012, the mere notion of a luxury EV that looked cool, was fast and had decent range was unheard-of. But now it’s nearly 2020 and even if the established automakers took their time before they jumped...
Competitors Have Finally Caught Up to Tesla
4 Dec 2019, 16:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 2012 when Tesla launched the Model S, it was a game-changing automobile. Before the Model S, EVs were either half-assed conversions of internal combustion-engined cars, or purpose built electric cars that looked quirky; neither had great ra...
Close-Up Look at Working Neuron EV T-One EV Pickup
4 Dec 2019, 15:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Tesla Cybertruck may have recently stolen the show on the pickup scene, but it’s by no means the only new kid on the block that’s worthy of your attention. The Neuron EV T-One is a somewhat more conventional looking electric pick...
Ditch New Year's Firecrackers, Get a Car With an Exhaust that Goes Bang Instead
4 Dec 2019, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The year is drawing to a close and if you were thinking of stocking up on firecrackers to celebrate the arrival of 2020, but at the same time you’re also looking to buy a new car, you may rejoice to know you can actually combine the two. W...