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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.
Why BYD Snatching EV Sales Crown in Q4 2023 Doesn't Mean Anything for Tesla
Why BYD Snatching EV Sales Crown in Q4 2023 Doesn't Mean Anything for Tesla

3 Jan 2024, 16:31 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla announced the Q4 2023 production and delivery results, and although they were higher than ever, the achievement was overshadowed by BYD's success. The Chinese company overpassed Tesla in the same quarter to become the EV sales king, alth...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Might Not Be Able To Charge at Third-Party 800-Volt Chargers
Tesla Cybertruck Might Not Be Able To Charge at Third-Party 800-Volt Chargers

3 Jan 2024, 14:23 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The Cybertruck is Tesla's first vehicle featuring an 800-volt architecture, but it can't benefit from it at the moment. Tesla doesn't have public 800-volt Superchargers in North America, and third-party chargers, even when fitted wit...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Officially the Most American-Made Pickup Truck
Tesla Cybertruck Officially the Most American-Made Pickup Truck

3 Jan 2024, 11:10 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / A quick look at the Tesla Cybertruck's Monroney sticker shows that the electric pickup is the most American-made truck, with 90% of parts produced in North America. This includes 65% made in the US and Canada. Many people in the US have the...

 
Revealed: Tesla Fremont Has Already Debuted Trial Production of the Model 3 Highland
Revealed: Tesla Fremont Has Already Debuted Trial Production of the Model 3 Highland

2 Jan 2024, 13:23 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla is once again proving to be a master of disguise as it tests Model 3 Highland prototypes with Chinese badging in the US. Thanks to a very inquisitive Tesla fan, now we know that at least some of these prototypes have been produced at Tesla Fr...

 
Everything the Cybertruck Tells Us About Tesla's Next-Generation EVs
Everything the Cybertruck Tells Us About Tesla's Next-Generation EVs

2 Jan 2024, 00:24 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla started Cybertruck deliveries, making some of the early reservation holders happy. However, Cybertruck's role in Tesla's grand plan is much more important than that. The electric pickup is the foundation stone of all future electric...

 
5 Reasons Why the Cybertruck Is Tesla's Most Important Model to Date
5 Reasons Why the Cybertruck Is Tesla's Most Important Model to Date

31 Dec 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla started Cybertruck deliveries two years later than it had planned, and the wait turned the angular pickup truck into a legend. Part of the delay was caused by Tesla's ambitions to revolutionize the way cars, especially pickup trucks, wer...

 
Tesla Cybertruck's First Discovered Easter Egg Is, Predictably, About the Broken Windows
Tesla Cybertruck's First Discovered Easter Egg Is, Predictably, About the Broken Windows

31 Dec 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The Cybertruck wouldn't be a Tesla without the customary easter eggs. The first one revealed is a shoutout to the moment when Franz von Holzhausen broke the Cybertruck's windows with a steel ball during the 2019 launch event. Elon Musk...

 
A $600 Investment Grants You Unfettered Access to Tesla's Software, Elon-Style
A $600 Investment Grants You Unfettered Access to Tesla's Software, Elon-Style

31 Dec 2023, 01:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Although Tesla software is one of the most secure in the business, this doesn't mean Tesla EVs are unhackable. In the summer, white hat hackers demonstrated a so-called voltage fault injection attack that allowed unlimited access to the Tesla ...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms the 4680-Cell Suspected Poor Charging Performance
Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms the 4680-Cell Suspected Poor Charging Performance

30 Dec 2023, 13:27 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Ever since the Tesla Cybertruck was spotted charging, people suspected that Tesla's 4680 cells were as bad as they were on the Model Y. The first documented Cybertruck charging curve confirms this, showing that the Tesla Cybertruck spends a lo...

 
The First Driving Video of Tesla's End-to-End-AI FSD Beta V12.1 Divides the Internet
The First Driving Video of Tesla's End-to-End-AI FSD Beta V12.1 Divides the Internet

30 Dec 2023, 11:38 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla released the FSD Beta V12.1 to more than 15,000 employees in the Wave1 beta-tester group earlier this week. Despite strict NDA conditions, one Tesla employee couldn't resist getting his 15 minutes of fame and leaked a video of him test-d...

 
Self-Proclaimed EV Advisor Thinks His Tesla Is on Fire, Emergency Responders Wreck His Car
Self-Proclaimed EV Advisor Thinks His Tesla Is on Fire, Emergency Responders Wreck His Car

29 Dec 2023, 18:30 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Not reading the owner's manual can be costly, as one Tesla Model Y owner discovered. A self-proclaimed EV advisor saw steam coming out of his car while charging and alerted emergency services, thinking it was smoke. The first responders disabl...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Experiences Its First Real-World Crash, Doesn't Look That Bad
Tesla Cybertruck Experiences Its First Real-World Crash, Doesn't Look That Bad

29 Dec 2023, 10:30 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / As the first Tesla Cybertruck was involved in a crash, people are again questioning its safety. Based on the pictures of the accident, the Cybertruck looks almost intact, while the other car is pretty much destroyed. Thankfully, nobody got hurt thi...

 
Tesla Model 3 Owner Trashes the Polestar 2 After Driving It as a Company Car for a Month
Tesla Model 3 Owner Trashes the Polestar 2 After Driving It as a Company Car for a Month

29 Dec 2023, 01:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Polestar is among the car companies that are considered as cool as Tesla, if not cooler. Having a Polestar 2 as a company car might be everyone's dream, but not after driving two years a Tesla Model 3 Performance. A German Tesla owner was utte...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Shows Off Makeshift Accessory Pre-Wiring, Hidden Air Port
Tesla Cybertruck Shows Off Makeshift Accessory Pre-Wiring, Hidden Air Port

28 Dec 2023, 16:22 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla delivered the first Cybertruck units on November 30, and about 500 of them have gotten to their owners since then. As some of these units got into tuning shops for various personalization projects, some of their best-kept secrets have been re...

 
Xiaomi Drops SU7 Bomb, Targets 500 Miles of Range and Plaid-Level Performance
Xiaomi Drops SU7 Bomb, Targets 500 Miles of Range and Plaid-Level Performance

28 Dec 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Few took Xiaomi seriously when it announced its ambitions to become a global carmaker. The Xiaomi SU7 electric sedan is a Tesla Model S rival with class-leading features that will give headaches to other EV makers in China and, quite possibly, abro...

 
Tesla FSD V12.1 Rolls Out to Over 15,000 Testers, It's Still Very Much Beta Software
Tesla FSD V12.1 Rolls Out to Over 15,000 Testers, It's Still Very Much Beta Software

28 Dec 2023, 10:23 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / After installing the FSD V12.1 to employee vehicles before Christmas, Tesla is rolling out the software to over 15,000 vehicles that are part of the wave1 testing group. Unlike previous rumors, the twelfth iteration of Tesla's self-driving sof...

 
Tesla's Holiday Update Screwed Up People's Cars, yet Company Refuses To Acknowledge It
Tesla's Holiday Update Screwed Up People's Cars, yet Company Refuses To Acknowledge It

27 Dec 2023, 22:04 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla rushed the 2023 Holiday Update to market, allowing some nasty bugs to go through its quality control undetected. However, when owners complained about the issues, Service Center employees refused to acknowledge the problems and asked for mone...

 
What's Behind the Unbelievable Demand for Tesla Superchargers in These Two Countries?
What's Behind the Unbelievable Demand for Tesla Superchargers in These Two Countries?

27 Dec 2023, 16:25 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Since 2022, Tesla invited owners to vote on the locations where they want more Superchargers installed. The system has been highly appreciated, but it's now put into question as two countries with few Tesla owners top the leaderboard in the wi...

 
Tesla Is Among the First To Adopt TSMC's N3P Manufacturing Process for HW5 Autopilot Chips
Tesla Is Among the First To Adopt TSMC's N3P Manufacturing Process for HW5 Autopilot Chips

27 Dec 2023, 12:27 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla launched the Hardware 4 Autopilot computer earlier this year, but it's already working on the next-generation chips. The EV maker has been listed among the first companies to benefit from TSMC's most advanced 3 nm lithography proces...

 
Tesla Won't Let You Order More Than One Foundation Series Cybertruck As Supply Tightens
Tesla Won't Let You Order More Than One Foundation Series Cybertruck As Supply Tightens

27 Dec 2023, 11:16 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla started Foundation Series Cybertruck deliveries on November 30 and has since expanded deliveries to hundreds of reservation holders. Some even received several invitations to configure the Cybertruck, irking those who were still waiting for t...

 

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