Andrew J. Hawkins Profile and Activity

Transportation editor

Andrew is transportation editor at The Verge, He covers electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, public transit, policy, infrastructure, electric bikes, and the physical act of moving through space and time. Prior to this, he wrote about politics at City & State, Crain's New York Business and the New York Daily News. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and many different brands of peanut butter.

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Cars

Automakers plead with Trump: don’t kill the EV tax credit

Andrew J. Hawkins

Nov 21|

Cars

Kia announces high-performance EV9 GT with virtual shifting and native Tesla charging

Andrew J. Hawkins

Nov 21|

Ford

Ford retracts in Europe with layoffs and lower EV production

Andrew J. Hawkins

Nov 20|

Transpo

Nuro expands driverless testing after pivoting to licensing its AV tech

Andrew J. Hawkins

Nov 19|

Andrew J. Hawkins Nov 14

Beta takes flight.

Vermont-based electric aviation company Beta Technologies announced the inaugural flight of the production version of its ALIA aircraft. The ALIA is a conventional takeoff and landing aircraft (CTOL), as opposed to a vertical takeoff and landing one (VTOL), meaning it lacks the tilt rotors that you see on other prototype aircraft. But the propulsion is still battery powered, putting Beta in the same category of many air taxi startups. The FAA signed off on the first flight, and now Beta is seeking certification for commercial operation.

Beta’s ALIA aircraft in flight.

Brian Jenkins/Beta Technologies

GM offers free nighttime charging to Chevy EV owners in Texas

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Nov 13|

Andrew J. Hawkins Nov 13

Is it a Volkswagen? Or a Rivian?

To celebrate its recent coupling, Volkswagen and Rivian brought a few journalists to its new Palo Alto-based office to see an example of the type of EVs they plan on building together. (Handelsblatt’s Felix Holtermann posted the first pic to his LinkedIn.) The unmarked VW test vehicles are running on Rivian’s software and electrical architecture, which the company boasts uses fewer electronic control units and less wiring than most other EVs.

Volkivian? RivWagen? I’ll leave the portmanteaus to more creative minds.