Elena Gorgan
7,916 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford
She has covered automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, ranging from the regular and all the way to celebrity culture, film, and music.
More than anything, Elena loves to tell stories about unusual or very special projects, but you can also count on her if you’re looking for the perfect e-bike.
Her work has been published on Softpedia News, InOut Star and, since 2018, autoevolution.
The Swift Pod Is a Well-Appointed Hotel Room That Drives You to Your Destination
30 Mar 2024, 06:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Autonomous vehicles still have a long way to go before they become the norm, but it's never too early to daydream about the endless possibilities opening up with AVs on the road. The Swift Pod is just one of these many possibilities. Autono...
This Is Panzer, a Badass Electric Scooter With Tank Treads
30 Mar 2024, 05:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Video killed the radio star, and high prices killed Segway's years-long attempt at getting the revolutionary Segway PT to be embraced as a personal mobility vehicle. But here's to new beginnings, Custom Robotics is hoping. The Segway ...
Tecnomar Introduces Futuristic, Gorgeous Catamaran Cat 133 FT
30 Mar 2024, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Common sense (and physics) says that you can't have it all, especially if you want all great and sometimes opposing features within the same package. That makes the latest Tecnomar achievement even more impressive – and we're not ev...
David Beckham Upgrades His $6.5 Million Riva Yacht to a $20 Million Superyacht
29 Mar 2024, 13:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Treat yo self, if you can afford it. David and Victoria Beckham are definitely in a position in which they can indulge whatever fantasy they have, especially if it ends up being beneficial for the entire family. And that's exactly what thei...
This '61 Bedford Dormobile Camper Is a Gorgeous Time Capsule
29 Mar 2024, 11:47 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You can never go wrong with a classic. If that classic also happens to have been an RV pioneer, like this 1961 Bedford Dormobile Camper, it becomes the equivalent of a unicorn on wheels. A most beautiful, motorized, family-ready unicorn. The Dor...
The Bako B1 Solar-Electric Trike Is Here to Make Cargo Hauling in the City Easier, Cheaper
29 Mar 2024, 09:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Good things always come in small packages seems like a saying invented for the sake of settling for less and not feeling bitter about it. That is, until you see the Bako B1, the teeniest-tiniest cargo hauler with incredibly high goals of making cit...
Robert Downey Jr. Steps Out on Porsche e-Bike: Only the Best for Hollywood's Golden Boy
28 Mar 2024, 13:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One not-so-discreet but highly efficient way to make the stock go up is to use celebrity endorsement. Before influencers were all the rage, this is how big brands did some of their covert advertising: by sending stuff to celebrities, who were then ...
Victoria Beckham's Latest Posh Ride Is a Mobility Scooter: The Best Gift Ever!
28 Mar 2024, 12:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It's the little things that matter in life: someone to hold your hand when you're sad, to tell you you'll be ok, and hopefully buy you a mobility scooter with a wine basket when you break your foot. You'd expect a woman whose...
The DayTripper Teardrop Is the Vistabule Stripped of Luxury Features but Just as Beautiful
28 Mar 2024, 09:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There is no such thing as perfection, but Minnesota-based Vistabule came pretty close to it with its first teardrop trailer and now-flagship model, also called Vistabule. The DayTripper is perfection improved, yet another thing we thought wasn'...
GoCycle Shows Off Pre-Production Cargo e-Bike, and It's Packed With F1-Inspired Features
27 Mar 2024, 12:53 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Anyone can talk a big game, especially from behind a computer screen, but we all know that the final test comes when the time for talking is over, and it's time for action. GoCycle, a British maker of premium e-bikes, is definitely the kind wh...
$220 Million Superyacht 'Royal Romance' Is Being Force-Sold in a World First
27 Mar 2024, 11:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In what will become a world first, the Feadship-built superyacht Royal Romance will be sold off at auction, with proceeds going directly to Ukraine. The superyacht was seized in 2022 in Croatia and is, as of January 2024, property of Ukraine. Be...
This Mega Tiny House Feels Like a Two-Level Home. A Fancy One, Too
27 Mar 2024, 06:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny living should come with compromises and spatial limitations and heavy downsizing because, otherwise, it wouldn't be TINY living in the first place. But here's a home that seems to defy that logic by living surprisingly large, much li...
Underwater Garage in $70 Million Mansion Will Blow Your Mind
26 Mar 2024, 13:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The world tends to look down on those who choose to spend their money on status objects, no matter their size, functionality, or value, and with good reason: material possessions and the ability to show off a large accumulation of them have never m...
This Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Replica Is a Super-Expensive, Super-Endearing Labor of Love
26 Mar 2024, 09:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Ecto-1 might have lost some of its initial appeal with the younger generations, especially after the three recent failed Ghostbuster revivals, but it will forever remain the world's most famous, most impressive, and surprising hearse. T...
This Airplane Conversion Makes for a Gorgeous, Quite Surprising Summer House
25 Mar 2024, 10:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The best sources of inspiration are all around us, in regular people holding regular jobs, leading regular lives, but embarking on not-so-regular adventures of all kinds. This is one such case where an aviation buff created a unique summer house ou...
This Flat-Pack Mobile Home Aims to Make Buying a House as Easy as Buying a Car
24 Mar 2024, 08:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny houses are very popular these days, even though some might argue that they're not exactly worth the hype given their pricing and the fact that they seem to have pushed all sustainability efforts to the side. Not the same could be said abo...
Mega-Mansion With 22-Car Auto Gallery and Basketball Court Is a Spectacular Dud
24 Mar 2024, 02:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Only a few short years ago, before the events of 2020 kicked our collective butts and slapped some cold reality into us, real estate developers were putting all their golden eggs into a budding niche of the premium real estate market: mega-mansions...
Custom Fritz Tiny House Is Proof That the Fanciest Things in Life Have Wheels
24 Mar 2024, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The greatest things in life are free, or so we hear. But the greatest things in life also have wheels if you ask any car enthusiast out there, in which case they will cost money – and this custom tiny house is a good example in this sense. ...
This Tiny House Is All About Clean, Elegant and XL Living on the Road
23 Mar 2024, 07:44 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A nomadic life might not be the answer to all our modern problems, but it sure makes a strong case for it. With a tiny house like the latest entry in the XL Series from this Australian builder, the proposed solution seems even more appealing. Ti...
The Ultimate Bunker Is a Disguised, Self-Sufficient Triplex With an 8-Car Garage
23 Mar 2024, 02:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Living in dread of what tomorrow might bring is a terrible way to live. But being prepared for the worst, should the worst come to happen, is an entirely different thing. Without venturing into conspiracy theories, worst-case scenarios, or unhea...