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Cristian Agatie

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As a child, he grew up among tractors and heavy machinery and was covered in grease from tip to toe most of the time. It was a tractor that he drove for the first time and when asked what he’d become, he candidly replied: “tractor operator”. Later on, he drove all kinds of vehicles, from heavy trucks to off-roaders, all outside of public roads until he got his driving license.

He did not become a tractor operator, as you can tell already. Instead, he got interested in journalism and pursued a career finding stories for local newspapers and radio stations. But the first love is never forgotten, so when presented with the chance, he seized it and became a motor journalist in 1995.

Having found the perfect job to mix his passion for cars and journalism, he couldn’t help exploring other areas, like science, computers, and mobile devices. He took stints working for a computer magazine for a couple of years, and it was then that he had his first contact with new media. But cars always remained his passion, so he returned to motor journalism when Auto Bild started its local branch. Later, he became an internet junkie, and moving online felt only natural.

In the meantime, he also became obsessed with technology, electric vehicles, batteries, and whatnot, so he writes a lot about those. He found autoevolution a fertile ground for exploration and so he discovered his passion for RVs and campers, but also solar panels and new energy solutions.
Toyota Exec Is in Denial, Thinks EV Adoption Is Hindered by "Lack of Consumer Demand"
Toyota Exec Is in Denial, Thinks EV Adoption Is Hindered by "Lack of Consumer Demand"

26 Aug 2022, 13:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Toyota arrived late at the EV table and did everything possible to delay the EV adoption, not only for itself but for the whole market. Jack Hollis, executive vice president of sales at Toyota Motor North America, thinks the electric vehicles will ...

 
Operation Underway to Recover an Arctic Trucks AT44 F-150 Sunk in Canada's Arctic Waters
Operation Underway to Recover an Arctic Trucks AT44 F-150 Sunk in Canada's Arctic Waters

26 Aug 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / After a successful expedition in the Arctic, an Arctic Trucks AT44 F-150 was lost through the surface in an area of rapidly shifting ice. A massive recovery operation was started to extract the truck from the water and avoid polluting the fragile a...

 
The F-150 Lightning's First Dyno Test Ever Shows That Ford Has Done Its Homework
The F-150 Lightning's First Dyno Test Ever Shows That Ford Has Done Its Homework

26 Aug 2022, 09:31 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Testing a car on the dynamometer is a common activity for performance car enthusiasts, but strapping a 6,500-lb (2,950-kg) truck on a dyno is a different matter. After much effort to find a suitable platform for testing, the Texas Truck Channel guy...

 
The Best-Looking Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia We've Seen in Years Hides a Nasty Surprise
The Best-Looking Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia We've Seen in Years Hides a Nasty Surprise

25 Aug 2022, 17:54 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Volkswagen Vanagon was a marked improvement over the popular Type 2 vans, bringing modern equipment, safety, and sportscar-like handling to the boring van market. This 1980 example is one of the best we’ve seen lately, although some equipment...

 
Tesla Scraps Radar Completely, Transitions Even Older Cars to Tesla Vision
Tesla Scraps Radar Completely, Transitions Even Older Cars to Tesla Vision

25 Aug 2022, 17:01 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla has started rolling out the 2022.20.9 update, a minor revision that was supposed to bring bug fixes and nothing more. Nevertheless, it appears that the update came with a surprise change for users, one that some will not like. According to...

 
Australian Bank Scrapping Loans for New ICE Vehicles Shows What the Future Will Bring
Australian Bank Scrapping Loans for New ICE Vehicles Shows What the Future Will Bring

25 Aug 2022, 16:07 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many think forcing electric vehicles down people’s throats is a bad idea. Well, it is, but it’s not how things will go from here. Electric cars will become dominant not because there would be no ICE versions available but because nobody...

 
SpaceX Lowers Starlink Prices in Europe as Competition Bites, No Relief for Americans
SpaceX Lowers Starlink Prices in Europe as Competition Bites, No Relief for Americans

25 Aug 2022, 14:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Starlink’s internet service is a hit, thanks to its ability to offer premium connectivity in the most remote areas of the globe. It doesn’t come cheap, though. Nevertheless, the Europeans are lucky because SpaceX has significantly lower...

 
Used EV Prices Soar, Gas Cars Prices Level Off As More People Embrace the Future
Used EV Prices Soar, Gas Cars Prices Level Off As More People Embrace the Future

25 Aug 2022, 12:16 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Electric vehicles are not very popular in the U.S., with only around a 5% adoption rate. This has led to an underdeveloped used EV market and a rapid depreciation. Nevertheless, things are changing, and a new study by iSeeCars shows that people flo...

 
School Kids Arrested While Trying to Steal Dodge Hellcats From Stellantis Plant in Detroit
School Kids Arrested While Trying to Steal Dodge Hellcats From Stellantis Plant in Detroit

25 Aug 2022, 10:00 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / On Monday, police arrested three children aged 11, 12, and 14 in the Jefferson North Plant’s storage lot. According to Detroit Police, they were caught while trying to carjack new Hellcat-powered Dodge Chargers and Challengers. As car thef...

 
The Owner of a Ferrari Crashed by a Service Technician Demands a New Car, Gets Nothing
The Owner of a Ferrari Crashed by a Service Technician Demands a New Car, Gets Nothing

24 Aug 2022, 18:36 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / A crash involving a million-dollar Ferrari 488 GTB in Vietnam proved much more complicated than initially thought. After a service technician crashed the car during a test drive, the supercar owner is yet to receive compensation for his loss. As...

 
2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray Prototypes Lap the Ring Like There's No Tomorrow
2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray Prototypes Lap the Ring Like There's No Tomorrow

24 Aug 2022, 16:46 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Chevrolet is speeding up the development of the first electrified Corvette. New footage from the Green Hell shows that Chevy is testing at least two versions of the E-Ray. One of them sports intriguing details, along with the required yellow sticke...

 
Sandy Munro Gets to the Bottom of Tesla's Structural Battery Pack, All Secrets Revealed
Sandy Munro Gets to the Bottom of Tesla's Structural Battery Pack, All Secrets Revealed

24 Aug 2022, 14:10 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / As Munro & Associates started disassembling the structural battery pack with 4680 cells in the Tesla Model Y, we’ve followed their progress, however small. Now it’s time to get to the bottom of it as Sandy Munro prepares to call it ...

 
New Keyfob Vulnerability Means Thieves Can Steal a Car in Seconds, No Vehicle Is Safe
New Keyfob Vulnerability Means Thieves Can Steal a Car in Seconds, No Vehicle Is Safe

24 Aug 2022, 12:34 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Security researchers have found a major vulnerability in the car remote key system, allowing a thief to unlock and steal almost any vehicle. Once the thieves get access to the secret radio signals your keyfob sends to the car, it is forever comprom...

 
Car Thief Tries To Flee Police Through a Metro Station, Gets Stuck on the Stairs
Car Thief Tries To Flee Police Through a Metro Station, Gets Stuck on the Stairs

24 Aug 2022, 10:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / News from Madrid is getting more disturbing as we learn a man tried to climb the stairs of a metro station interchange in a Mazda sedan. The car had reportedly been stolen from a garage nearby and got there by accident and the will of God. They ...

 
Chevrolet Dealer With a $90,000 Markup Caves, Promises to Sell Corvette Z06 at MSRP
Chevrolet Dealer With a $90,000 Markup Caves, Promises to Sell Corvette Z06 at MSRP

24 Aug 2022, 08:33 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Another proof of dealer greediness enraged the internet over the weekend. The $90,000 markup on a Chevrolet Z06 started a backlash that prompted the dealer to announce giving up on the markup. Or not. The photo of a purchase agreement between th...

 
Time-Capsule Ford Econoline E300 Super Van Camper Aspires to a Better Life, New Owner
Time-Capsule Ford Econoline E300 Super Van Camper Aspires to a Better Life, New Owner

23 Aug 2022, 14:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many automotive gems roaming the roads after half a century have a caring owner as a common denominator. This is also the case with the Ford Econoline E300 Super Van Camper we’ve found on Bring a Trailer. It was purchased by the previous owne...

 
Which Electric Pickup Truck Has the Smallest Range Penalty When Towing a Trailer?
Which Electric Pickup Truck Has the Smallest Range Penalty When Towing a Trailer?

23 Aug 2022, 13:07 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Towing a trailer using an electric pickup truck is known to cut the range in half, but surely there must be differences. Journalists at Car and Driver put the three electric pickups available now on the market to a towing test involving a 29-foot, ...

 
EVs Have the Lowest Annual Fuel Costs of All 2022 Model Year Vehicles Sold in the U.S.
EVs Have the Lowest Annual Fuel Costs of All 2022 Model Year Vehicles Sold in the U.S.

23 Aug 2022, 11:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / We already knew that electric vehicles have lower maintenance costs, thanks to the lack of an engine. A new report shows that EVs are also much cheaper to refuel than all other cars built for the 2022 model year. Electric vehicles have a steep e...

 
Ford Starts Cutting Those Jobs It Said It Would, First 3,000 Employees Notified This Week
Ford Starts Cutting Those Jobs It Said It Would, First 3,000 Employees Notified This Week

23 Aug 2022, 09:47 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / According to the letter sent to employees on Monday, Ford plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs this week in the U.S., Canada, and India. The move comes after Ford CEO Jim Farley repeatedly said the company has “too many people,” last time bein...

 
EV vs ICE Battle Taken to the Next Level in One Expensive Porsche Crash
EV vs ICE Battle Taken to the Next Level in One Expensive Porsche Crash

23 Aug 2022, 08:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Car crashes happen every day, sometimes with deadly consequences. Sometimes, they’re just weird, like this crash that occurred in Spain and involved two expensive Porsche cars. An electric Taycan crashed into an ICE Macan, smashing into a wal...

 

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