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Al Castro reports Electric Vehicle news at Torque News and has a passion for the history of the automobile, but his expertise is in electric and autonomous cars. Al is also a corporate security expert, and a former law enforcement officer. He lives in Southern California. He recently graduated with honors from the California State University Los Angeles, earning a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. In his spare time Al maintains a blog about police and transportation matters and collects diecast replica cars, some rare, mostly Rolls Royce and Bentley, mostly post war to current model years. Please follow All on Twitter at @SgtAlCastro, Facebook and Linkedin and send him tips for new stories.

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Why it Still Makes Sense to Buy A Cheap Used Electric Car Like a Nissan Leaf or a Chevy Bolt 6
Nissan x Opus and the Air Opus Off Road Pop-Up Camper Make the ex-Leaf Car Organ Donation Idea a Worthy Battery Campsite Cause 0
February 27 News / Topics 3
Test Drive: Dropping Off my 3 Series For a Week in a Loaner BMW 430i: the Setup for the Soon Coming i4 Electric 3
The Car Lab Mad Doc Looks to Sign a Pact With Besos and Bloody Mary: Is the GM Buy-In to Rivian the Coming of the American Rolls Royce? Or Just Another GM Saab Story? 0
BEV Range Freeze: The Cold Realities of BEV Winter Driving, Summer is Only Half as Bad 0
Driving Distracted While AutoPilot, and the Dangerous Brinksmanship that Goes With It 0
With Lower Priced and Less S and X, Tesla Revamps Model Range Structure and Readies for Base Model 3 Production 3
“My Tesla Did it:” The Push Button Excuse from Life’s Responsibilities. Owning Technology Before it Owns Us 0
The Cadillac XT6-Gate Debate: Luxury Car Brands: Are They Even Needed Anymore In the Age of Car Sharing, RoboTaxis, and Autonomy? 10
The Cadillac XT6-Gate Debacle, the “Lead Brand” Stumble, and the Solutions: What Now to Do Moving Forward 6
With 3 New Gas CUVs on Sale and No BEV Until 2022, Cadillac Proclaims Itself King of Electric with an Announcement That Really Anoints Tesla as Lead Luxury Brand 1
Converting a Car Company from Making Gasoline to All Electric Vehicles: The Stakes Involved and the Brands Least Likely to Survive as a Result. 1
The Developing World’s Answer to Tesla: China’s Great Wall Motor’s ORA R1 $8,680 BEV 1
The “Coal Rolling” and “ICE-ing” Menace and What You Can do to Prevent It and Abate It 24
The GM Chinese Electric is Coming! GM’s All-Electric Future will be Imported from China and Not Detroit. 12
VW's Gigantic Cell Phone Power Bank for BEVs: A Mobile Quick Charging Station is a Juice Pack for Your EV 3
December 30 News and Topics 3
December 28 News and Topics 3
The Hybrid Revolt Begins: Supercharging Installation, VW/GM Gas Riddance Acceleration, and GM Massive Hybrid Cancellation Dooms the PHEV 4
Aviar R67: Even the Russians Want to Make an ALL Electric Mustang that Ford Doesn’t Want to Make or Still Can’t! 1
The “One-Off” Car: The 1960 Bentley S2 Wendler Shooting Brake: A Bentley Rolls Royce Mercedes Buick Estate Wagon. 0
Ode to the Lehmann Peterson Lincoln: A Custom Continental We’d All Love to Remember, that Lincoln Today Seems to Forget 2
The Qiantu K50 BEV Sports Car: The First Chinese Branded Car May Finally Penetrate the US Market, Backhandedly—and it’s All Electric 2
December 19 News/Topics 7