Erik Shilling

News Editor at Jalopnik. 2008 Honda Fit Sport.
  • Every Car Should Have an AM Radio

    Every Car Should Have an AM Radio

    Amplitude modulation radio, better known as AM radio, has been around for over a century, and, originally, was a technological advance as big as television or the internet in terms of revolutionising how humans interact. AM radio has also been relied on for almost that entire time for use in emergencies because it’s a tried…


  • The Sono Sion Could Be an Almost Perfect Solar-Powered EV

    The Sono Sion Could Be an Almost Perfect Solar-Powered EV

    Sono is a German company founded in 2016 that is, as of this writing, striving to build what people like me have been wanting for years: a $US25,000 EV that wants to be the opposite of certain other EVs. That would be the Sono Sion, which the company says could be sold on American (hello,…