Elena Gorgan
8,136 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford
She has covered automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, ranging from the regular and all the way to celebrity culture, film, and music.
More than anything, Elena loves to tell stories about unusual or very special projects, but you can also count on her if you’re looking for the perfect e-bike.
Her work has been published on Softpedia News, InOut Star and, since 2018, autoevolution.
Real-Life Iron Man Mansion Boasts the Most Incredible Auto Gallery
18 Jan 2024, 11:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Movies, and especially comic-book films, are pure fiction, from the superpowers the main character ends up with – or struggling with – to the way they decide to dole out justice when the legal system fails us. But if we're looking ...
Oceanco's Superleggera 80 Superyacht Is a Floating Penthouse With Sexy Automotive Lines
18 Jan 2024, 08:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Fancy wording might catch the eye, but it also carries the risk of overselling a product by setting up impossibly high expectations. Safe to say, luxury yacht builder Oceanco, one of the heaviest names in this segment of the market, is in no such d...
Billionaire's Ex Sues Over the $400M Superyacht 'Luna' in World's Most Expensive Divorce
17 Jan 2024, 12:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There's a saying in showbiz about how there's no such thing as bad publicity. This doesn't apply to the private yachting sector, as one of the most iconic and controversial builds of all times, the superyacht Luna, can attest. Lun...
The Bonzai Tiny House Is the Teeniest, Most Creative Mobile Home You've Seen
17 Jan 2024, 10:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny houses put the "micro" in "micro-living," but you could easily believe the opposite if you looked solely at U.S.-built units. This type of mobile home isn't just having the best moment ever right now, but it's als...
The Western Ranger Expeditionary Is Probably the Most Surprising, Elegant Overland Rig
17 Jan 2024, 07:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / These days, and especially in automotive writing, descriptors like "ultimate," "awesome," or "bonkers" have lost some of their luster through overuse. But they still fit the Western Ranger Expeditionary rig like a glov...
Starbucks Billionaire Trades His Custom $200M Superyacht for a Bigger, Fancier One
16 Jan 2024, 10:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / What's money good for if you're not spending it, right? Howard Schultz, the man who founded and currently serves as chairman emeritus of Starbucks, is perhaps the best person right now to answer that question, even if it's rhetorical...
This Spectacular Superyacht Features a Bonkers Man Cave and Even Wilder Amenities
16 Jan 2024, 07:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If superyacht design is like creating a physical outlet for billionaires' seafaring dreams, the very special niche of superyacht concept design must be what happens when billionaires occasionally indulge in a spot of daydreaming. Project Arman...
This Shipping Container Home Is the Most Insane Take on Minimalist, Off-Grid Living
13 Dec 2023, 08:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Minimalist living and downsizing are still very much "in" right now, but that's not to say there isn't any room left for getting creative. And "creative" is just the right descriptor for this home, an off-grid containe...
First-Ever Look at the Renaissance Megayacht Shows the Kind of Opulence $200 Million Buys
12 Dec 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A couple of world records and a job well done are usually reasons to call back home to pass on the good news. But in the world of privately owned luxury vessels, secrecy is a must, so that means no trumpeting of good news to the world. In July t...
This Is Komma: Not a Microcar, but Rather a New Type of Compact EV for Saving the World
11 Dec 2023, 12:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, as The Bard so beautifully put it, but the sweet smell of the absence of exhaust fumes can go by different names. The Komma EV is making an argument against being called a microcar. The future of ou...
Rapper 2 Chainz Hospitalized in Miami After Serious Three-Car Crash
11 Dec 2023, 08:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As that old saying goes, if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to see it, did it even fall? The modern equivalent of that is that if you experience something and you don't immediately share it online, it's almost as if you...
That Tesla Diss in 'Leave the World Behind' Is No Diss at All, Says Elon
11 Dec 2023, 06:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Streaming might be bad for Hollywood in general terms, as evidenced by the recent prolonged writers and actors' strike, but there is a lot of good that comes out of streaming. One such good thing is the production and subsequent release of fil...
Gorgeous Superyacht AK Royalty Boasts New 24K Gold Livery, Most Opulent Interior
3 Dec 2023, 09:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not all that glitters is gold, but some things are. The AK Royalty superyacht is one of them, thanks to an extensive and expensive refit that saw it reborn with a new livery, new interiors, and an entirely different, decidedly more decadent vibe. ...
Freedom Ship: The World's Largest Vessel Is Also a Self-Sufficient Floating City
3 Dec 2023, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Humans love to explore, and it's perhaps this desire to go to the farthest reaches of the planet that has partly fueled the current high demand for extended cruises. But, as it turns out, the desire to turn an extended cruise into a lifestyle ...
The 10,000-Year Clock: Jeff Bezos' $42 Million Timepiece Built Inside a Mountain He Owns
2 Dec 2023, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It's time. It could be that it's lunch-hour time, or time to call it a day and head back home to your family and your life outside of work. It's time we started acting more considerately towards our planet before it's too late, ...
First Mad Max Furiosa Trailer Brings Back the Warboys, the War Rigs, and Awesome Visuals
1 Dec 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / They say Hollywood is going through a huge creative crisis, most notable in the fact that so many big studios are relying on remakes, retellings, spinoffs, too many sequels to count, or prequels to put butts in the seats in movie theaters. All this...
Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Takes Delivery of the Third Cybertruck Founders Edition
1 Dec 2023, 11:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As of November 30, 2023, four years after the much-hyped and occasionally much-ridiculed first public showing of the Cybertruck, there are 12 production series Cybertrucks on public roads. This is how many e-trucks were delivered during Tesla'...
This Custom Tiny House Has an Elevator Inside, And It Will Definitely Surprise You
1 Dec 2023, 10:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Money can't buy happiness, but it can sure can buy the closest thing to it, like your forever home. Even downsizing becomes a whole different ball game when you're not on a budget, and a custom park model tiny like this one proves it. ...
The Grand Tour Is Also Over and Clarkson, May, and Hammond Might Return to Top Gear
30 Nov 2023, 14:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / All things come to an end, whether good or bad, but that's not to say it's not shocking when they do. Whereas BBC's confirmation that Top Gear had been canceled was expected, this one comes as a huge surprise: The Grand Tour is also ...
This 16-Foot Tiny Home Shows How Awesome Micro-Living Can Be
30 Nov 2023, 12:32 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / With all the recent, almost overwhelming attention on tiny living, you'd be excused if you assumed it was some kind of new fad. It's not, and builds like the Miter House prove it. Tiny living has been around for decades, just like the ...