Darren Moss
Darren Moss focuses on how new cars and commercial vehicles work in everyday life, balancing launch news with clear explanations of range, value and usability. He is a deputy editor at What Car?, where his coverage centres on mainstream family cars, SUVs and working vehicles rather than niche enthusiast models. His work stands out for translating technical updates into plain, practical guidance that helps readers decide whether a new or updated model genuinely fits their needs.
Electric and family cars
Moss covers electric and electrified models as family transport, treating technology as a means to better range and day‑to‑day convenience rather than an end in itself. In his coverage of the facelifted Renault Megane, he focuses on how the update changes this familiar family car’s electric driving range and what that means for routine journeys, using simple language to describe the gains rather than dwelling on abstract engineering detail. He extends the same approach to other battery‑powered models, looking at how electric SUVs and crossovers fit into real‑world family use, how far they go on a charge and how they compare with petrol and diesel alternatives on running costs. Across these stories, his tone remains straightforward and consumer‑oriented, with an emphasis on the practical pay‑off of new technology.
SUVs and commercial vehicles
Large SUVs and working vehicles form another strand of Moss’s beat. He has fronted coverage of models such as the Ineos Fusilier, presenting it as an electric SUV for adventurers and explaining what its off‑road ability and range mean for owners who need a car to work hard on and off the road. His earlier work includes comparative features on luxury SUVs, where he weighs up the best and worst of this crowded segment in structured tests that make strengths and weaknesses easy to follow. Commercial vehicles enter his remit through awards and reviews of models like the Duster Commercial, where he highlights payload, practicality and value, showing how a van‑derived vehicle can make financial sense while still being easy to live with. This mix of high‑riding family cars and working vans reflects an interest in vehicles that have to earn their keep, not just look good on a spec sheet.
Tests, explainers and awards
As a senior member of the editorial team, Moss moves between written tests, video explainers and awards work. In short video pieces for What Car?, he delivers “everything you need to know” on new models by stripping back marketing language and focusing on clear points about space, comfort, performance and charging or fuel use. His presence in content around the What Car? Awards, including segments on electric models such as the Skoda Enyaq and practical winners like the Duster Commercial, shows him weighing vehicles against criteria such as value for money, equipment and usability rather than headline performance figures alone. Within the magazine and website’s testing structure he sits close to the road‑test operation, drawing on colleagues’ data while keeping the final verdict concise and accessible. The through‑line is a testing and awards perspective that remains rooted in how buyers actually use their cars, making his pieces useful when a story touches on real‑world running costs, practicality or the trade‑offs between electric and traditional powertrains.
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Aarian Marshall
Aarian Marshall is a staff writer at WIRED who stands out for covering how cars, software, and policy collide. She writes on transportation systems and cities, from the auto industry to broader mobility systems. Before WIRED, she reported on cities and urban policy for The Atlantic’s CityLab. Her beat runs from electric vehicles, fuel prices, tariffs, and car-buying decisions to autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, and software-defined cars. She reports with a systems view, linking policy shifts, technical failures, and urban life to what happens on streets, in repair shops, and at the pump.
Adrian Leung
Adrian Leung writes engineering-led coverage of Chinese electric vehicles and performance cars for CarNewsChina. He focuses on new energy vehicles, battery systems, powertrains, electric platforms, high-end domestic brands, and track-ready models, and he explains technical details in plain language for non-specialist readers. His reporting treats new models as hardware and systems stories, with precise figures on range, battery capacity, chassis layout, motor outputs, weight, and acceleration. He also covers the Chinese auto industry’s finances and technology roadmap, including sector profits, vehicle volumes, and solid-state battery timelines. His background in Electrical and Computer Engineering shows in the way he writes about vehicle electronics and battery management.
Al Pefley
Al Pefley is a television news reporter for CBS12 News whose work centers on how laws, law enforcement and local decisions shape everyday life for drivers and other residents. He reports in a general assignment role but returns often to transportation, public safety and pocketbook issues, treating driving as a point where policy, disability and policing intersect. His coverage includes driver-focused laws, fuel and tax policy, crime, policing and internal affairs findings, with a consistent focus on accountability and concrete consequences for people’s wallets, safety and trust in institutions. He explains county gas tax debates, campaign positions on teacher pay, property crime and retail theft in short, clear segments. Pefley works primarily on the scene, using live or recorded field reporting and interview-driven pieces to show what happened, why it matters and what comes next.
Aliza Savira
Aliza Savira focuses on the hidden financial costs of owning modern cars, especially how insurance can undermine expected savings. She writes about automobiles for MSN, looking at new technology and electric vehicles through everyday ownership rather than showroom appeal. Her work highlights the gap between promises of cheaper running costs and the full financial picture of owning a vehicle. In electric vehicle coverage, she treats insurance premiums as a key ownership problem that can erode long-term value. She stays close to practical questions drivers face, such as which recurring costs matter most after purchase. She reports on how insurance structures and premium levels interact with new automotive technology. Her beat is consumer-focused automobile reporting, with a clear, utilitarian lens on ownership experience, recurring expenses, and risk, rather than lifestyle or performance.