Jim Motavalli

Jim Motavalli is the author of two electric car books, Forward Drive (2001) and High Voltage (2011). He is a freelance writer for the New York Times, Barron’s, Autoweek and others, and a programmer on WPKN — dubbed “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker.

The Latest from Jim Motavalli

Are bidirectional EV chargers ready for the home market?

With a stream of EVs coming on the market, the race to introduce bidirectional charging is heating up.

How ‘feature bloat’ is driving the chip shortage

What if the auto industry’s best solution to the chip shortage was not simply making more chips? Suppose we instead got a handle on what might be called “feature bloat” — the tende