Elena Gorgan
8,143 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.
Woman Drives on Car’s Rims, With Margarita in Her Cupholder
2 Apr 2019, 16:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, took “party like there’s no tomorrow” a little too literally the other day, when she got so drunk that she drove at least 15 minutes on her car’s rims without realizing it – or caring. ...
13-Year-Old Boy Buys His Mother a Car
2 Apr 2019, 15:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not all teenage boys are horrible to their parents. One 13-year-old from Reno, Nevada, saved up and bought his mom a new (used) car, thus helping her out when she thought things couldn’t get any worse. This is the kind of story that can p...
Crackheads Break Into Bill Bellamy’s Car, Steal Sharpie, Leave $42K in The Trunk
2 Apr 2019, 14:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Comedian Bill Bellamy is on the road with his PopUp Comedy Series tour and his most recent stop was in Jackson, Mississippi. This is where the car of one of his friends was broken into – and the thieves are now in the running for the “s...
Jeweler Who Gave Elon Musk Custom Diamond Ring Gets Locked Inside His Own Tesla
2 Apr 2019, 13:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Time to ask for that flashy present back: celebrity jeweler Ben Baller, the guy who makes custom pieces for anyone from Michael Jackson to Kanye West, and who made a show-of-appreciation diamond ring for Elon Musk in December last year, got locked ...
Researchers Trick Tesla’s Autopilot to Change Lanes, Steer Into Traffic
2 Apr 2019, 13:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tesla recommends that drivers keep their hands on the wheel at all times, even when the vehicle is in Autopilot mode. Despite its name, this mode does not make the car self-driving, the automarker says. If it did, it would be in a world of trou...
NYPD Cop Fired For Citing Nonexistent Cyclist on Fake Offense, Charging Overtime
2 Apr 2019, 12:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A criminal mastermind, he was not. A cop from the New York Police Department lost his job after he got caught trying to milk the clock by writing fake citations in fake names for fake offenses, and he pleaded guilty in exchange for a conditional di...
Identical Twins Caught Sharing The Same Driver’s License For 20 Years
2 Apr 2019, 11:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / While we could assume that it’s annoying to always get mistaken for your identical twin sibling, a couple of brothers – identical twins – decided to make the most of it. And they’ve been doing it for the past two decades. ...
Britain’s Oldest Taxi Driver Retires at 85
2 Apr 2019, 10:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You’re only as old as you feel. One man from Canterbury, U.K., still feels very young at heart but will also like to spend more time with his 10 grandchildren, so he’s retiring as a taxi driver. At 85, Barrie George is probably the ...
Woman Meets Someone Nice, Lets Them Drive Her Car, Loses It
1 Apr 2019, 15:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Buffalo, New York, learned a very important lesson about trust on Saturday morning, when her car was stolen right from under her nose, after she handed over the keys to the suspect. Buffalo News reports that the woman was out doi...
Barefoot Woman Rides on Hood of Speeding Car on Houston Highway
1 Apr 2019, 14:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / For one Houston woman, riding in a car presents a variety of seating options: in the driver seat (doh), the front passenger seat, the back passenger seat or barefoot on the hood. A strange incident was captured by a fellow motorist on their cel...
Vintage Cadillac Bursts Into Flames, Rolls Down The Street And Crashes
1 Apr 2019, 13:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When it rains, it pours: two friends planning to go for a ride in a vintage Cadillac ended up running for their lives and watching a scene like you’d only get to see in action movies. Luckily, one of them still had the presence of mind to...
Distracted Driver Caught With 250-Pound Pig on His Lap
1 Apr 2019, 12:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / That’s a new one even for the cops in Chisago County, Minnesota: one driver pulled over for driving erratically was caught with a 250-pound pig on his lap and a smaller one near the driver seat. A trooper for the Chisago County Sheriff&rsq...
South Carolina Student Killed After Getting Into a Car She Thought Was an Uber
1 Apr 2019, 11:02 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A simple mistake made by a South Carolina student on a night she went out drinking with her friends ended up costing her her life. Police have managed to apprehend a suspect believed to have kidnapped and murdered Samantha Josephson, after she mist...
Dad Uses Tesla’s Summon Feature to Pull Daughter’s Tooth, World Reacts in Anger
1 Apr 2019, 09:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A Tesla owner from Pittsburgh tried to show off his car and the many uses it can be put to, but he also ended up being accused of child abuse. And all he did for that was have his Model S pull out his daughter’s tooth. Of course, he also m...
The Queen, 92, Will Give up Driving on Public Roads After Prince Philip’s Crash
1 Apr 2019, 09:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Queen Elizabeth will be ringing in her 93rd birthday this month with plans to give up driving on public roads. The decision came after long consideration stemming from Prince Philip’s 2-vehicle crash earlier this year, a new report suggests. ...
Nigerians Are Ordering Pizza From London, Flying it In on British Airways
1 Apr 2019, 08:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You don’t know the meaning of “baller” until you’ve ordered your pizza on your cellphone, from about 4,000 miles away, and had it flown in on a passenger airline company. British Airways, to be more specific. That’...
Airport Valet Caught Doing 145 mph in BMW M6, Loses License And Job
29 Mar 2019, 13:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 31-year-old man whose job depended on having a valid driver’s license just lost it, after he was caught doing 145 mph on a road near Heathrow Airport, in London, U.K., where he worked as a valet. Navdeep Singh Randhawa tried to plead fo...
Icelandic Airline Wow Air Goes Down, All Flights Are Canceled
29 Mar 2019, 12:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A major but financially strapped airline company from Iceland has closed down and canceled flights at the last minute, causing chaos at airports in North America and Europe. As these things tend to go, much of that chaos is playing out on social me...
Dad Turns Daughter’s Wheelchair Into Police Car, She’s Welcomed to the Force
28 Mar 2019, 16:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Fact: parents will always go the extra mile for their kids, and this story is no different. A local man from Thornton, Colorado, has turned her daughter’s wheelchair into a mini police car, complete with lights. Haley needs a wheelchair t...
Cop Drags Driver by the Hair Out of the Car During Traffic Stop in Texas
28 Mar 2019, 15:55 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A routine traffic stopped turned into a physical scuffle between driver and police officer in Richmond, Texas – and is now the subject of a civil rights investigation after the driver complained of being “attacked.” The inciden...