Jim Gorzelany

5 days ago | forbes.com | Jim Gorzelany

For many, a long drive unaccompanied by screaming kids and chatty acquaintances can provide a welcome respite from the day’s trials and tribulations. But these wanting to drive solo may find they have some unwelcome guests coming along for the ride. Mice or even (shudder) rats. Whether a given car, truck or SUV is parked on the street or in a garage, it can become a safe haven for rodents and other pests to become squatters.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Jim Gorzelany

Aside from their zero-emissions operation, electric vehicles have been touted as money-savers with regard to their energy and maintenance costs. Yet a the recent annual EV Cost of Ownership Analysis conducted by the automotive market research company Vincentric shows that 56%of the current fleet of EVs still lose money in the long run vs comparable gas-powered models, due in large part to their higher up-front costs and steep rates of depreciation.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jim Gorzelany

Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant memory. Fortunately, most vehicles on the road have the means to alert the driver when there’s something wrong. This is via an important warning light that either looks like a car’s engine or spells out “Check Engine” that stays illuminated on the instrument panel after the vehicle is started.

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jim Gorzelany

It’s no exaggeration to suggest the nation’s economy has been violently upended in what is an eyeblink-brief period of time, particularly with regard to President Trump’s patchwork of trade tariffs. The penalties on imported vehicles and components (including domestic-branded models built elsewhere and/or locally with parts coming from other countries) is almost certain to cause an upward turn in new-vehicle prices among virtually all brands in the weeks and months ahead.

1 month ago | forbesjapan.com | Jim Gorzelany

サイバートラックが物議を醸す存在だというのは控えめな表現だ。2024年に華々しく登場したこのくさび型のステンレス製フル電動ピックアップは、同社が描いていた高い期待には遠く及んでいない。約200万件の予約があったとされる一方、最近全モデルを対象としたリコール通知により、テスラがこれまでに販売したサイバートラックはわずか4万6000台にとどまることが明らかになった。 テスラは現在、2億ドル（約293億円）相当の「革新的」なサイバートラックの在庫を抱えていると伝えられているが、買い手がつかない理由の1つとして、繰り返されるリコールが挙げられる。最新のリコールでは、走行中に外装パネルが突然外れる問題が指摘されている。また、CEOのイーロン・マスクがドナルド・トランプ大統領政権下で連邦省庁施策と雇用削減を進める「DOGEイニシアチブ」で発言力のある中心人物となっていることへの反発も、テスラのブランドイメージ低下を加速させているとみられている。...