Editorial principles
We are not a pro-electric publication. We are pro-information. This page explains what that means in practice.
Last updated: June 2026
Stance
Explanatory, not upbeat
If fast charging takes longer than the brochure promises, we say so. If a hybrid makes more sense for certain drivers, we say that too. If travelling across Spain in an electric car still takes planning, we spell it out.
We would rather a reader arrived informed than excited. An experience that beats what was promised earns goodwill; one that disappoints is never forgiven.
Credibility first
We would rather lose a visit today than promise what the car cannot deliver. It is the one thing you do not get back.
Method
Where the data comes from
Every figure we publish has an origin, and we name it. We do not settle for a single source when we can cross-check several: what a carmaker homologates, what an independent test measures and what an official body records do not always agree, and that gap is part of the information.
Official bodies
The DGT (Spanish traffic authority), the IDAE (national energy agency), the BOE (official state gazette) and their equivalents, for registrations, grants, regulation and infrastructure.
The carmakers
Specifications, list prices and WLTP homologations, plus announcements and press releases, which in some cases we analyse as source material. We always identify a manufacturer figure for what it is: a homologation, not a measurement.
Independent testing
For real-world consumption and range we rely on independent tests measured on the road, by testers and specialist publications in Spain and abroad, whose results we cross-check and bring to the reader.
And one rule above all the rest: if we do not have the figure, we say so. An estimate is labelled as an estimate ("everything points to", "it is likely"), never dressed up as a fact.
Verification
How we verify a figure
A number on its own is not enough for us. Before publishing we gather it from several sources, cross-check it and put it through a human review. If it is still unclear after that, we do not treat it as good.
We gather the sources
Technical documentation from the carmakers, spec sheets, PDF brochures and their official sites, official data such as the IDAE's on grants or the DGT's on registrations and WLTP homologations, and third-party tests.
We cross-check them
We combine that data and check it against itself. When the figure a carmaker homologates, the one an official body records and the one an independent test measures do not match, that gap is part of the information, and we report it.
Human review before publishing
No figure reaches the reader without a human review. It is the last filter: if something does not add up, or we cannot back it with a source, it does not get published.
Criteria
Data with context
WLTP is a homologated reference applied the same way to every model: it is not the exact range any given driver will see, but it is the common yardstick that makes models comparable. Our job is to help you read that reference properly, what margin to expect on the motorway, in winter, with the car loaded, so that the comparison leads to a decision instead of stopping at a bare number.
An example. Knowing that a car homologates 440 km WLTP shapes your trip once that figure translates into whether you get from Madrid to Valencia with one stop or two.
Limits
What we do not do
A reader is already in the middle of a decision, and what they need is clarity, not pressure.
We do not sell cars, and we do not take money from carmakers to appear in our content.
We do not manufacture urgency, or write headlines that promise what the article does not deliver.
When we start from a press release, we say so: we use it as a starting point for analysis, we do not rewrite it as if the work were ours.
Accountability
Who answers for this
Behind the project there is a named person, not an anonymous newsroom: Xavier Viloca Zamora. If anything we publish does not match what this page says, write to us.
Who we areWhen we correct a figure, we put it in writing in our corrections policy.