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“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)

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Like any other petrolhead out there, Oraan fell in love with cars in his infancy, so it was only natural for him to become student at a University specialized in the automotive field. In 2000, he became a car journalist and for almost 15 years he tested all kinds of cars, wrote industry analysis articles and expressed his opinions on automotive subjects.

Unlike many petrolheads out there, Oraan-the-engineer increasingly became aware of downsides of combustion engines. At the beginning of the 2010s Oraan-the-car-journalist transformed at a fast pace from a nothing-to-worry-petrolhead to an environment-responsible-electrohead.

At that time everybody was mocking Elon Musk for his Tesla “secret plan”, so Oraan-the-electrohead became the outlaw-advocate-of-electromobility in the petrolheads world. In 2014 he decided to start his own online project aimed to inform and educate the public about green technologies and so-called unconventional-propulsion for cars.

In recent years, Oraan involved in other projects out of the car industry. But he’s still a vigilant “devil’s advocate”, especially since he’s a daily EV commuter. That’s why he couldn’t miss the opportunity to debunk EV myths, explain green tech breakthroughs and share the news in this field to autoevolution audience.
This Christmas, the Grinch "Stole" Subsidies. Does It Mean the End of EV Sales in Germany?
This Christmas, the Grinch "Stole" Subsidies. Does It Mean the End of EV Sales in Germany?

23 Dec 2023, 20:08 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the German government made an unexpected "present" to the car industry this December: it simply stopped the subsidies program for electric cars. It's not a joke or a conspiracy, but a move many analysts fea...

 
Latest Consumer Reports Test Emphasizes EVs' Weakest Spot: Highway Range
Latest Consumer Reports Test Emphasizes EVs' Weakest Spot: Highway Range

15 Dec 2023, 07:32 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The number one reason for people not buying electric cars is that they are expensive. But what about those who can afford to buy them? What's holding them back? You already guessed: an electric vehicle's range is still worse than a simila...

 
Will Ditching Fossil Fuels Plunge the World Back Into Darkness or Save It?
Will Ditching Fossil Fuels Plunge the World Back Into Darkness or Save It?

9 Dec 2023, 02:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / What does it sound like when you put in charge of a global climate summit someone who runs one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world and who inconceivably asserts that "there is no science out there, or no scenario, that says that ...

 
EVs and Plug-In Hybrids Are Presumably Much Less Reliable Than ICEVs and Hybrids, CR Says
EVs and Plug-In Hybrids Are Presumably Much Less Reliable Than ICEVs and Hybrids, CR Says

3 Dec 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / This year's Annual Auto Reliability Survey covered 20 problem areas that consumers gave feedback on based on their experience with their vehicles in the last 12 months. Electric and plug-in hybrid car owners seem to have very high expectations...

 
Here's an Unpopular Idea: Tax Big SUVs and Favor Kei-Car-Like Vehicles Inside Cities
Here's an Unpopular Idea: Tax Big SUVs and Favor Kei-Car-Like Vehicles Inside Cities

1 Dec 2023, 21:42 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Cars getting bigger results in all sorts of problems that customers aren't aware of when deciding to go for a crossover or an SUV instead of a regular passenger car. Moreover, dealers and carmakers' advertising campaigns try to sell you t...

 
Welcome to the 2-Degree Era. Next Station: 3-Degrees, and Sooner Than You Think.
Welcome to the 2-Degree Era. Next Station: 3-Degrees, and Sooner Than You Think.

26 Nov 2023, 13:04 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm looking out the window at the horrible snowman I made with my little daughter a few hours ago. It's already melting, and the snow layer that formed overnight is thinner by the minute. I predict that by the evening, no sign of snow wil...

 
Euro 7, the "Greenwashed Euro 6," Could Be the Tradeoff for Killing the ICE for Good
Euro 7, the "Greenwashed Euro 6," Could Be the Tradeoff for Killing the ICE for Good

25 Nov 2023, 17:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I'm slightly confused: is this a sick movie where society must offer sacrifices on the auto industry altar for the greater good? Watering down the proposed stricter Euro 7 norms will result in 7,300 premature deaths and €100 billion in he...

 
Half-Empty Glass: The EV Sales Boom Is Taking a Break, Apparently
Half-Empty Glass: The EV Sales Boom Is Taking a Break, Apparently

18 Nov 2023, 12:16 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Tesla missed its Q3 earnings estimate; Volkswagen, Ford, and GM cut EV production; Ford and LG drop plans for one of Europe's largest battery plants. Overall, the industry's stance is primarily pessimistic about the pace of EV adoption in...

 
Five Reasons To Ditch the Dacia Spring for a Citroen E-C3, and the One Reason Why I Won't
Five Reasons To Ditch the Dacia Spring for a Citroen E-C3, and the One Reason Why I Won't

22 Oct 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I have owned my Spring for almost two years and more than 20,000 km / 12,500 miles. Up to this point, there were more pros than cons. But recently, Stellantis surprised me by announcing the closest contender yet for the electric Dacia. So, natur...

 
People's Low Trust and High Confusion Are the Nemesis of Self-Driving Tech, Study Suggests
People's Low Trust and High Confusion Are the Nemesis of Self-Driving Tech, Study Suggests

21 Oct 2023, 19:25 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / JD Power has an interesting approach to monitoring consumers' stance towards automated vehicles. The data analytics, software, and consumer intelligence company partnered with the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium for a unique &...

 
Megawatt Charging Will Spur Heavy-Duty Electrification, Endangering Hydrogen Trucks
Megawatt Charging Will Spur Heavy-Duty Electrification, Endangering Hydrogen Trucks

15 Oct 2023, 07:10 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Hydrogen domination in the heavy transport sector seems to be slimmer by the day. The research company IDTechEx forecasts that road freight electrification is more likely to happen thanks to adopting the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) for electric ...

 
Will Stockholm, the First City To Ban Both Gasoline and Diesel Cars, Set a Global Trend?
Will Stockholm, the First City To Ban Both Gasoline and Diesel Cars, Set a Global Trend?

14 Oct 2023, 10:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In the last two decades, civilized European countries banned smoking in public places because smoking harms everyone's health. The same logic goes for ICE cars, but banning them from urban areas is still unpopular. Stockholm is the first Europ...

 
Flash Joule Heating Is Not a DC Superhero Movie Sequel, but It Could Save the Planet
Flash Joule Heating Is Not a DC Superhero Movie Sequel, but It Could Save the Planet

8 Oct 2023, 14:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / It can recycle waste into valuable graphene; it can regenerate graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries; it can make low-cost hydrogen from plastic. It's the Flash Joule Heating process developed in the early 2020s by chemist James Tour of Ric...

 
Paving the Way for "E-Fuels-Gate": 5 Times More "Well-to-Wheel" CO2 Emissions Than EVs
Paving the Way for "E-Fuels-Gate": 5 Times More "Well-to-Wheel" CO2 Emissions Than EVs

7 Oct 2023, 09:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / You may have heard by now that the German auto industry strongly believes there's no need for retiring internal combustion engines after 2035, despite the EU Commission (and common sense, may I add) requiring their phasing out. E-fuels are the...

 
New Threats to the Battery Boom: These Studies Focus on Health and Environmental Impact
New Threats to the Battery Boom: These Studies Focus on Health and Environmental Impact

30 Sep 2023, 08:54 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Everybody is aware that battery manufacturing has its toll on the environment. This is the main argument of EV detractors trying to defend internal combustion engines or hydrogen and e-fuels. Now, two more studies pour gasoline on the fire (pun int...

 
Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines Seem To Be Regaining Momentum
Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines Seem To Be Regaining Momentum

24 Sep 2023, 01:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Some agree that batteries are the clear winner in the race against hydrogen technologies, while others think the opposite. There's no such debate among internal combustion engine proponents. Almost all of them believe that replacing fossil-fue...

 
People vs. EVs
People vs. EVs

23 Sep 2023, 08:46 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Maybe you've heard that on September 15, tens of thousands of United Auto Workers members started what the media calls "the biggest strike in the auto industry in the last 90 years." And yes, among other issues, it's got to do w...

 
Living in Europe With One of the Cheapest EVs Made in China, Dacia Spring
Living in Europe With One of the Cheapest EVs Made in China, Dacia Spring

17 Sep 2023, 03:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Two years ago, I became one of the owners of the first edition of Dacia Spring. Even now, I'm not sure it was a good decision, but the less-than-9,000-euro sticker (after the government's EV subsidy deduction) made it a must-have offer. H...

 
"X-Change: Cars" – Just Another Report Predicting the Extinction of the "ICE Age"
"X-Change: Cars" – Just Another Report Predicting the Extinction of the "ICE Age"

16 Sep 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The report compiled by Rocky Mountain Institute and Bezos Earth Fund is basically saying what many others have stated so far: EVs are on the rise, and ICE vehicle sales will soon collapse. But, as with any prediction, there are caveats, uncertainti...

 
The Latest Move To Save ICEs: The "International E-Fuels Dialogue" Smokescreen (III)
The Latest Move To Save ICEs: The "International E-Fuels Dialogue" Smokescreen (III)

10 Sep 2023, 08:07 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / IAA MOBILITY 2023 wasn't only about electromobility, as we've seen in previous parts of this material. On the three-day conference "E-Fuels – Paving the Way for Clean Mobility," BMW and Mercedes-Benz high-ranking officials...

 

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