In-depth EV reviews by EV Rob.
Every so often, a company shows up and quietly embarrasses an entire industry. Lucid is that company, and the Air is how it did it. While established automakers with a century of experience were building electric sedans that struggled to crack 300 miles of range, this California startup, founded and staffed in part by people…
When Lucid built the Air, it proved a startup could out engineer the entire luxury sedan establishment. The obvious question was whether the company could do it again in the far more popular, far more competitive world of SUVs, where most people actually shop. The Gravity is the answer, and it’s an emphatic one. This…
Mercedes-Benz’s first wave of electric cars, the EQ family, was a genuinely mixed effort. The technology was there, but the controversial egg shaped styling and some questionable decisions left those early EVs feeling like a company still figuring things out. So when Mercedes set out to build its next generation of electric vehicles, it essentially…
Mercedes-Benz has a car called the S-Class, and for decades it has been the default answer to a simple question: what is the most comfortable, most luxurious way to travel by road that money can reasonably buy? When Mercedes set out to build an electric flagship, the EQS was meant to be the electric version…
The EQS Sedan had one persistent problem, and it wasn’t the luxury, the technology, or the comfort, all of which were excellent. It was the shape. That swoopy, aerodynamic, egg like silhouette divided opinion the moment it appeared and hasn’t quite won over traditional Mercedes buyers. Then Mercedes took the same superb underpinnings, the same…
The gas powered Mercedes-Benz GLC is one of the brand’s best selling models, the compact luxury SUV that a huge number of buyers choose as their entry into the three pointed star. So when Mercedes brought out an electric version, the stakes were about as high as they get. Get it right, and Mercedes has…
Before Tesla was a household name, before Rivian existed, before every automaker on earth promised an electric future, there was the Nissan Leaf. It went on sale in 2010, beating the Tesla Model S to market, and for a lot of Americans it was the first electric car they ever saw in a driveway that…
The Cayenne saved Porsche. That’s not hyperbole, it’s history. When the first Cayenne arrived in the early 2000s, purists howled that a sports car company had no business building an SUV. Then the thing sold in enormous numbers, funded the development of the cars those same purists loved, and quietly became the financial backbone of…
Most electric vehicles sell themselves on numbers. Range, horsepower, zero to 60, charging speed, all lined up on a spec sheet like a résumé. The Porsche Macan Electric plays a different game. It’s not the longest range EV in its class. It’s not the cheapest. It’s not the roomiest. What it is, according to nearly…
For over a century, Rolls-Royce chased a single, almost impossible goal: to make a car so smooth and silent that riding in one felt like floating. The company obsessed over hushing every vibration, muffling every sound, and isolating passengers from anything as vulgar as mechanical noise. There’s a famous old advertisement claiming the loudest sound…