Elena Gorgan
8,135 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.
Bill Gates Is Selling His Shadow Superyacht 'Wayfinder,' Following $600M Megayacht Listing
11 Jun 2024, 10:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There's a saying in showbiz that applies across all other industries, but only if you know which sources are reliable: there's never smoke without a fire. Two months after reports that billionaire Bill Gates was about to sell his personal...
The Chipper Tiny Proposes a Compact but Stylish Approach to Living in a Mobile Home
11 Jun 2024, 06:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Chipper is what chipper does, and this tiny house certainly lives up to the name. This is the latest, most affordable and most compact – and definitely the most cheerful – tiny house from Australia-based builder Häuslein Tiny House. ...
Feadship Launches Solar-Powered Project 713: The First Superyacht of Its Kind
10 Jun 2024, 11:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If breaking records was a goal in itself, Dutch luxury shipyard Feadship would have long reached it. Over and over again – and once more last weekend, with the launch of Project 713. Feadship is a name that hardly needs an introduction, ev...
Billionaire's Superyacht Runs Aground Again: An Irony of Titanic-Sized Proportions
10 Jun 2024, 05:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you believe in coincidences, this is perhaps one of the strangest and least fortunate: MY Australia, owned by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, ran aground off the coast of Australia, and it's the second time it's happened in just 8...
Remembering Rolls-Royce Regatta: A Wraith Unlike Any Other
9 Jun 2024, 09:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Where we mortals color-coordinate and style-match our outfit pieces or, at the very least, a pair of them on a fine day, the world's multi-millionaires and billionaires do things on a whole different scale. The Rolls-Royce Regatta is how the o...
Ridden: Fiido Air - The Ultra-Light, Tech-Packed Carbon Fiber e-Bike You'll Love
9 Jun 2024, 00:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Though it's been a handful of years since e-bikes have gone mainstream and battery and components tech has evolved at a rapid pace, the old rule still holds true: an e-bike will always be heavier, bigger, and generally more cluttered than a st...
Remembering the 1956 Viberti Golden Dolphin: The Fanciest, Fastest Gas-Turbine Coach
9 Jun 2024, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Admittedly, luxury has no place in public services like public transportation – not because of a deliberate decision to exclude it, but because whatever is being offered has to remain affordable and, because of it, widely accessible. Exceptio...
Freedom Tiny House Lives Up to the Name: Compact, Minimalist, a Dream
8 Jun 2024, 06:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Before tiny houses had become mini-palaces on wheels, so big and heavy that they required special permits and special convoys for towing on an exceptional basis, they stood for one thing: freedom. Freedom the tiny house is meant as a reminder of th...
Suitcase-Sized Tatamel E-Bike Is Here but Is Such a Disappointment
8 Jun 2024, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There's never a fine or otherwise indistinguishable line between conceptual studies and reality. If anything, the route from concept to production-ready model is twisted, difficult, and packed with unexpected turns and obstacles, making it suc...
The Marrakai Is an Oversized Tiny Home That Brings Luxury to Downsizing
7 Jun 2024, 10:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Who said downsizing has to mean living out the rest of your life – or, at the very least, the foreseeable future – in a cramped residence where everything is always within reach and you can't ever find some privacy? That's wha...
This Is the Elegant, Luxurious Prefab That Caught Elon Musk's Eye: Backyard by Samara
7 Jun 2024, 03:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Arguably the world's most famous homeless billionaire, Elon Musk, also has a soft spot for tiny houses, preferably prefabs that combine modern design with sustainability considerations and all the construction advantages of a prefabricated pro...
Spectacular Tiny House Is More of a Luxury Farmhouse on Wheels, Unlike Any Other
6 Jun 2024, 05:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There's downsizing, and then there's the lavish version of it, which doesn't even feel like downsizing anymore. A custom park model tiny like the one we're about to look at today is a good example for the latter. Downsizing h...
Billionaire Space Tourist Cancels SpaceX Moon Mission, and His Crew Aren't Having It
5 Jun 2024, 10:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Delayed gratification is the name of the game with space tourism, especially if you're planning on writing history onboard a history-making rocket like the Starship from SpaceX. But this billionaire has had enough of that and is canceling all ...
Air Seat Is the World's First Full-Floating Saddle Suspension System for Any Bike
5 Jun 2024, 05:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Riding a bicycle can be a healthier, more fun, and definitely greener alternative to hopping behind the wheel of a car as you go about your daily chores, but cycling can also be a pain in the butt. Take that in the most literal sense. Cycling is...
Remembering Skyacht One, the Most Lavish and Outrageous Embraer Private Jet Ever
5 Jun 2024, 04:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A few years ago, when climate activists weren't hounding and publicly shaming private jet owners as they do today, and when the issue of climate change wasn't as pressing, one designer challenged himself with answering a rhetorical questi...
The Snuuzu Is a Hotel Bed Tailor-Made for Your Tesla and Extended Adventures
4 Jun 2024, 09:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Stretch as you will the limits of the definition of the phrase "modern nomadic life," but you'll still have some trouble fitting living out of your car in it. People have lived out of cars for decades, for sure, but it was never a gl...
Kim Kardashian Doesn't Walk, She Rolls: Rolls-Royce, That Is
4 Jun 2024, 07:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Why bother walking when you could move at an equally slow pace but with less effort and in a much more comfortable manner, at the wheel of your blinged-out Rolls-Royce? Obviously, we don't have an answer to that, but Kim Kardashian does. Ki...
This Is the Romini Caravan: The Ultimate in Tiny Camping, Towable Even by a MINI
4 Jun 2024, 06:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In keeping with the saying "good things come in small packages," one teeny-tiny travel trailer aimed to rewrite RV history in the mid-'80s. It never did, with production limited just 200 units and never reaching outside of national b...
This 1968 Chevy C20 Custom Camper With a Del Rey Sky Lounge Is an Incredible Time Capsule
3 Jun 2024, 12:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / On a market saturated with options, it's admittedly difficult to stand out. But we can all agree that, even among the newest, shiniest, and highest-specced rigs, this one would still be able to make itself noticed. Few other mobile habitats...
Luxury Tiny House Boasts Full-Size Features and Costs Under $4,000, but There's a Catch
3 Jun 2024, 05:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny houses may be a lot of excellent things, but one thing they're most definitely not these days is cheap. A DIY (do it yourself) tiny house may be the only exception, assuming you're ready to put in the extra effort. Recent years br...