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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.
Forest River R-Pod 179 Travel Trailer Is Perfect for Digital Nomads, Sells With No Reserve
Forest River R-Pod 179 Travel Trailer Is Perfect for Digital Nomads, Sells With No Reserve

9 May 2022, 15:03 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / It’s not often that you find a travel trailer on Bring a Trailer, but this Forest River R-Pod surely deserves your attention. It’s fairly new and with modern amenities, it could be everyone’s dream, especially as it’s light ...

 
Tesla Reuses 92% of the Raw Materials in Their Batteries, Nothing Goes to Waste
Tesla Reuses 92% of the Raw Materials in Their Batteries, Nothing Goes to Waste

9 May 2022, 13:53 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many people still believe that used EV batteries will go to landfills at the end of their useful life. The truth is, Li-Ion batteries are too precious to be wasted, and Tesla confirmed it recycles every battery it can get. As much as 92% of the raw...

 
IIHS Raises the Safety Bar With a Higher-Speed Test for Automatic Emergency Braking
IIHS Raises the Safety Bar With a Higher-Speed Test for Automatic Emergency Braking

9 May 2022, 10:55 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Active safety systems help reduce the crash rates in today’s vehicles and are paramount to achieving the best crashworthiness ratings. The Automatic Emergency Braking systems are already slashing the crash rates by as much as half for vehicle...

 
Hackers Are Targeting EV Chargers for Fun and Profits, Prove It's the Weakest Link
Hackers Are Targeting EV Chargers for Fun and Profits, Prove It's the Weakest Link

9 May 2022, 10:09 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / EV chargers have been the target of criminals or just bad people, be it for ICE-ing, cord-cutting, and other questionable practices. Recently, the chargers got on hackers’ radar, too, who discovered they are easy to hack for profits or simply...

 
Car Thieves Storm GM's Lansing Plant, Can't Enjoy the Chevy Camaros They Stole
Car Thieves Storm GM's Lansing Plant, Can't Enjoy the Chevy Camaros They Stole

9 May 2022, 08:37 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Car thefts have seen a steady increase in the past two years. Not only that, but the thieves have become bolder, stealing many vehicles at once, sometimes from the dealers’ lots or straight from the factory. Recently, a gang of thieves have b...

 
GM EV1 Pioneered Many Technologies Used in EVs Today
GM EV1 Pioneered Many Technologies Used in EVs Today

7 May 2022, 22:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / GM EV1 was not the first electric vehicle ever to hit the market, but surely its story was controversial enough to make everything else fade into history. With or without controversies, the EV1 was a pioneer of many technologies we take for granted...

 
Teslas on Autopilot Are Eight Times Safer Than the Average American Car: Report
Teslas on Autopilot Are Eight Times Safer Than the Average American Car: Report

7 May 2022, 10:15 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Despite all the high-profile Tesla crashes that the media doesn’t get enough writing about, records show that Tesla Autopilot is incredibly safe, and improving by the month. Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report released Friday shows that its cars...

 
GM's CEO Mary Barra Sees $30,000 Electric Vehicles as Key to Overtaking Tesla
GM's CEO Mary Barra Sees $30,000 Electric Vehicles as Key to Overtaking Tesla

6 May 2022, 22:24 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Three months after GM’s CEO Mary Barra vowed to overtake Tesla by mid-decade, she doubled down on her pledge. Part of her strategy is selling cheaper electric vehicles, something that Tesla also promised a couple of years ago. We don’t ...

 
Pumpkin Is a Great Looking Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia With a Lot of Tales To Tell
Pumpkin Is a Great Looking Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia With a Lot of Tales To Tell

6 May 2022, 19:41 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The Volkswagen Vanagon is a worthy upgrade over the second-generation Type 2, especially as Westfalia upped its game in the camper department. This 1983 Vanagon Westfalia is living proof, and it can still keep up with more modern campers, although ...

 
Drivers Keep Crashing at This Particular Spot in Seattle, Prove Road Signs Are Important
Drivers Keep Crashing at This Particular Spot in Seattle, Prove Road Signs Are Important

6 May 2022, 16:49 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many drivers crash their cars at this exit from a tunnel in Seattle, and people are curious to see why. It turns out the exit from a high-speed road ends with a sharp curve just outside the tunnel. So unless drivers notice the signs or know the are...

 
Tesla Just Began Operations at Giga Berlin, Already Eyes Huge Expansion
Tesla Just Began Operations at Giga Berlin, Already Eyes Huge Expansion

6 May 2022, 15:13 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla Giga Berlin’s opening was preceded by epic struggles with environmentalist groups and the local authorities. Far from over, these will not stop the American EV maker to seek to significantly expand operations at the Gruenheide gigafacto...

 
CATL's Kirin Battery Will Enter Volume Production, Will Not Be Used by Tesla
CATL's Kirin Battery Will Enter Volume Production, Will Not Be Used by Tesla

6 May 2022, 13:53 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / CATL is the biggest producer of Li-Ion batteries in the world and one of the major suppliers for Tesla. The Chinese battery producer will soon start producing its signature Kirin batteries, offering improved performance, even compared to the 4680 c...

 
Watch Unsuspecting Atlanta Teacher Getting a Free Ford F-150 Lightning on The Ellen Show
Watch Unsuspecting Atlanta Teacher Getting a Free Ford F-150 Lightning on The Ellen Show

6 May 2022, 07:42 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Around 200,000 reservation holders are waiting to convert their reservations into orders for the new Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck. For some, it might take years until this happens, but a lucky Atlanta teacher got himself in front of the line...

 
Microsoft Teams Up With Volkswagen To Cure HoloLens' Car Sick Problem
Microsoft Teams Up With Volkswagen To Cure HoloLens' Car Sick Problem

5 May 2022, 17:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Microsoft’s next-generation AR headset named HoloLens 2 has a new “moving platform” feature which allows it to be used in a moving vehicle. The enhancement was co-developed with Volkswagen, which wants to use the headset inside it...

 
Things Are Heating Up For This 1970 Volkswagen Type 2 Westfalia
Things Are Heating Up For This 1970 Volkswagen Type 2 Westfalia

5 May 2022, 16:55 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / If you want to be part of the hippie revolution, you can’t go wrong with a second-generation Volkswagen Type 2 featuring Westfalia camper paraphernalia. Luckily, we’ve just found a 1970 example that is still in good shape despite being ...

 
Carmakers Wanting $100+ per Month for Subscription Services Are Delusional
Carmakers Wanting $100+ per Month for Subscription Services Are Delusional

5 May 2022, 15:30 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The car industry faces disruptions as the sales model they were used to started to disintegrate in the past years. Carmakers search for new revenue streams to make up for the losses in sales, but their expectations seem rather unrealistic. Car buye...

 
Pricing for the 2023 Polestar 2 Announced, Will Take More Than a Clever Campaign
Pricing for the 2023 Polestar 2 Announced, Will Take More Than a Clever Campaign

5 May 2022, 10:45 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Polestar will start U.S. sales of the 2023 Polestar 2 in September and is confident enough that it will compete with the Tesla Model 3. This is obvious when looking at Polestar’s pricing strategy, with the electric sedan starting just below $...

 
Ford Is Killing It With a 139% Increase in EV Sales Before F-150 Lightning Joins the Party
Ford Is Killing It With a 139% Increase in EV Sales Before F-150 Lightning Joins the Party

5 May 2022, 09:35 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Ford has an incredible start this year, with its electric vehicle business booming on the back of Mustang Mach-E’s popularity. The electric van E-Transit also entered the fray, instantly becoming the bestseller of its segment. Overall, Ford s...

 
Why Thousands of Chevy Silverado HD Trucks Are Gathering Dust in Vacant Lots in Ontario
Why Thousands of Chevy Silverado HD Trucks Are Gathering Dust in Vacant Lots in Ontario

5 May 2022, 08:37 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Microchip shortages have wreaked havoc across the auto industry, causing production disruptions and delivery delays. Many carmakers have decided to continue building vehicles even without the precious chips and install them later, as they become av...

 
Watch Phoenix Police Using a Grappler to Stop a Fleeing Car, It Stood No Chance
Watch Phoenix Police Using a Grappler to Stop a Fleeing Car, It Stood No Chance

4 May 2022, 15:50 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The grappler is a James-Bond-inspired device used by the cops across the country to quickly stop chased vehicles. The most recent case was caught on tape in Phoenix, Arizona, when a suspect trying to escape arrest started a high-speed race. Acc...

 

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