The standard we hold ourselves to
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at EV Autoplay in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on EV Autoplay.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at EV Autoplay in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
A draft goes through four hands worth of work. The writer separates what they know from what they assume. The assumptions are either checked against something nameable or deleted. What is left gets written up. Then a second person reads it looking only for overconfidence, which is the failure this subject invites most.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.
Henrik Solvang, EV ownership writer. Henrik has driven electric cars since 2016 and logs every charge in a spreadsheet. He writes about ownership, batteries and resale, with real numbers instead of brochure figures.
Evander Szabo, In-car tech reviewer. Evander spent years in software QA before reviewing in-car tech. He tests CarPlay, Android Auto and dashboard apps the way he used to test releases, looking for the bugs drivers actually hit.
Desmond Kayode, Charging and infrastructure writer. Desmond is an electrician who moved into installing home chargers. He writes about charging, tariffs and infrastructure, and about what a safe installation should look like.
Topics come from three places: reader mail, our own notes, and gaps we notice while reading what else is published. Nothing gets written because a keyword tool suggested it.
A few of the links here make us money. That covers the running costs and stops well short of buying a kinder paragraph around them.
Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.
Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.