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.
Abby Smith
Abby Smith’s most distinctive work combines motorsports coverage with live digital and radio reporting. She is Digital Director at KRDO13 and covers the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, including race updates, weather shifts, breaking developments and ways to follow the action. Her beat also includes automotive news, crime, public safety, politics, city government and community life. Notable work includes coverage of homicide arrests, a major drug bust, a presidential address about the war with Iran, a family’s effort to bring Stephen Hubbard home, a state governor candidate and a city security ordinance. She also reports on fitness, school spirit and station staff. Smith writes in a concise, factual style shaped by investigative documentary experience. She turns live events, official announcements and daily developments into clear coverage across digital and radio platforms.
Adele Peters
Adele Peters covers climate solutions and other structural problems as design and policy questions, focusing on what can work in practice. She is a senior writer at Fast Company, where she reports on energy, transportation, housing, materials, agriculture, corporate sustainability, and social impact. Her stories examine climate technologies, grid resilience, electric vehicles, renewable energy, modular construction, homelessness, affordable housing, compostable materials, regenerative agriculture, and ecosystem restoration. She looks at whether projects can scale, their real-world constraints, and their measurable effects. She interviews political and philanthropic leaders, startup founders, and climate tech entrepreneurs, anchoring stories in what is being built and tested. She has written more than 3,000 stories and contributed to Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century and State of Housing Design 2023.
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.