Cristina Mircea
1,684 ARTICLES
She nailed her motorcycle license test shaming all the males in her class with her highest score in the written exam and the best time obtained during the skills test.
Writing has been her livelihood for more than ten years now, and there’s no topic she doesn’t dare tackling, from IT solutions to outdoor equipment, electronics, and now the automotive industry.
When she’s not typing, she also loves riding non-motorized two-wheelers, going on hikes with her dog, and rocking her electric guitars.
Gin X Hybrid E-Bike Packs High-End Features in a Budget-Friendly Package
31 Jul 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / If you want a good electric bicycle that won’t break the bank and can tackle both city roads and hills, you might want to take a look at the Gin X hybrid e-bike, which claims to offer high-end features at a budget-friendly price. Gin is a ...
Compact Nimbus One Three-Wheeled EV Can Fit Into Any Parking Space, Has Airbag and A/C
30 Jul 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Cars just don’t cut it anymore in our overly-congested urban traffic. We need to go smaller if we want to avoid those rush-hour wait times and the Nimbus One EV might just be a good way to go. This compact, three-wheeled EV promises to slide ...
New FAA Approval to Help Flytrex Expand Its Drone Deliveries to Over 100K U.S. Customers
28 Jul 2022, 14:22 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / The company that launched the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in the world is making significant progress in expanding its business throughout the United States. Flytrex recently announced that it’s received approval from t...
Naturo Tiny House Is for the Solo Nomad, Has a Large Bedroom and a Cozy Outside Deck
28 Jul 2022, 13:04 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / The beauty of a mobile house is that it can be moved to the location of your choice. Most tiny living adepts are nature lovers in search of breathtaking views they can wake up to every morning. The Naturo tiny home is designed with that in mind, fl...
Boots Becomes the First Community Pharmacy in the U.K. To Deliver Meds by Drone
28 Jul 2022, 10:09 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / U.K.’s Boots pharmacy chain, health and beauty retailer, announced that it’s recently become the first community pharmacy in the country to transport prescription meds by drones. Earlier this month, Boots successfully completed a tes...
Blue Betty Is a DIY House on Wheels That Accommodates a Family of Five Plus Their Two Dogs
28 Jul 2022, 09:01 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Blue Betty has been around since 1983, but it used to serve as an entertainer coach bus and a Trailways vehicle. Now it shines as a cozy house on wheels for a family of five nomads plus two dogs, taking its passengers to incredible places and letti...
Powerful Buxus Eva Is a Sturdy Off-Road E-Bike That Likes to Pretend It's a Motorcycle
27 Jul 2022, 13:49 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Motorcycles are not for everyone, but at least we can pretend to ride one even when we’re cruising on our electric bikes. And this whole make-believe process gets a lot easier when the design of the two-wheeler works with you, as is the case ...
Canadian-Made Flight Stand 150 Unveiled as the World's Largest Test Stand for Drones
27 Jul 2022, 12:48 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Made for testing all kinds of large electric aircraft, from eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) to heavy-lift drones and electric planes, the Flight Stand 150 claims to be the world’s largest off-the-shelf test stand made for profe...
BluMobile Packs Power and Water-Producing Capabilities Into a Compact, Mobile Trailer
27 Jul 2022, 09:53 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / The BluMobile trailer is a box full of surprises, equipped to produce enough power for either your road escapades, disaster and emergency responses, or remote worksites. It comes with an easy-to-deploy solar array, a high cycle battery bank, and an...
This Expandable Mobile House Has Everything You Can Wish for, Too Bad Is in the Wrong Size
26 Jul 2022, 15:19 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Many of us dream about quitting our dull, 9-to-5 lifestyle to move into a cozy mobile home and just drive. The luckiest of us might actually succeed in that, but the rest have to settle for building toy-sized versions of their dream house out of LE...
La Familia Tiny House Is Not So Tiny, Has Three Bedrooms and an Extra Multi-Purpose Room
26 Jul 2022, 13:24 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Some tend to think that tiny living is made for the carefree, adventurous couples, or for solo travelers, but the La Familia tiny house is here to prove them wrong. As even its name suggests, this multiple-bedroom dwelling offers enough space to ac...
Arcimoto Unveils a New and Improved Prototype of Its Mean Lean Machine Tilting E-Trike
26 Jul 2022, 08:32 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / FUV (fun utility vehicle) developer Arcimoto has lately made the headlines with a more different type of three-wheeler. Its Mean Lean Machine (MLM) is a tilting electric trike that boasts the company’s patented tilting technology and looks ev...
This Split-Wheel Vehicle Is Probably the Most Overcomplicated Pedal Cycle Design out There
25 Jul 2022, 13:54 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / There’s nothing you can’t achieve when you know your math and this YouTuber proves it best with his crazy DIY builds. Conventional bicycles are boring, but this right here is anything but conventional. In fact, you can't even call ...
REE Automotive Shares First Footage of Proxima Drive-by-Wire, Electric Step Van in Action
25 Jul 2022, 12:49 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Israel-based company REE Automotive just kicked off the first live demonstrations of the Proxima electric van developed in partnership with EAVX and Morgan Olson and there’s footage available. Back in January, REE Automotive unveiled its...
Australia's Swoop Aero Teams Up With the FAA to Scale Up Its Drone Services Globally
25 Jul 2022, 10:01 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Aussie air logistics company Swoop Aero teamed up with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and Australia’s CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority), to accelerate the seamless integration of its drone technology across both urban and rura...
EHang's Air Taxi Flies Over Four Cities in Japan, Makes Multiple Breakthroughs
25 Jul 2022, 08:13 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / EHang’s highly-acclaimed AAV (autonomous aerial vehicle) turned a lot of Japanese heads about a week ago when it successfully completed a demo flight tour across four cities in Japan and it achieved a few firsts for an eVTOL (electric vertica...
Retro-Style Noordung E-Bike Cruises the Streets With a Boombox and Air Pollution Sensors
24 Jul 2022, 08:00 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / There have been plenty of jaw-dropping bicycles on display at this year’s Eurobike event in Frankfurt, Germany, but one of the ones to really stick with you was the striking Noordung e-bike, a retro-looking two-wheeler with a boombox, air pol...
Frey Runner Tourer Is One Juicy Deal, Packs a 1,000W Motor, Goes 124 Miles per Charge
23 Jul 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Frey Bikes has been making high-quality e-bikes since 2013, with available options varying from more entry-level and budget-friendly wheelers to premium bikes such as the Voyager Beast, an advanced enduro monster that will set you back around $7,50...
Vertical Aerospace Explores New Uses for Its "100 Times Quieter Than a Helicopter" eVTOL
22 Jul 2022, 15:47 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Like most eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft developers out there, Vertical Aerospace is also yet to fly its air taxi. But even so, the U.K.-based company seems unstoppable when it comes to sealing deals, constantly expanding i...
Gooseneck MacDonald Tiny House Has a Spa-Like Bathroom, a Projector, and In-Floor Heating
22 Jul 2022, 14:09 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Canadian-made MacDonald tiny house is the perfect proof that downsizing doesn’t also have to mean compromising in terms of style and luxury. It is fully off-grid capable, it has a spacious “gearage”, a luxurious bathroom with a sp...