Camila Domonoske
Camila Flamiano Domonoske covers cars, energy and the future of mobility for NPR's Business Desk.
She got her start at NPR with the Arts Desk, where she edited poetry reviews, wrote and produced stories about books and culture, edited four different series of book recommendation essays, and helped conceive and create NPR's first-ever Book Concierge.
With NPR's Digital News team, she edited, produced, and wrote news and feature coverage on everything from the war in Gaza to the world's coldest city. She also curated the NPR home page, ran NPR's social media accounts, and coordinated coverage between the web and the radio. For NPR's Code Switch team, she has written on language, poetry and race. For NPR's Two-Way Blog/News Desk, she covered breaking news on all topics.
As a breaking news reporter, Camila appeared live on-air for Member stations, NPR's national shows, and other radio and TV outlets. She's written for the web about police violence, deportations and immigration court, history and archaeology, global family planning funding, walrus haul-outs, the theology of hell, international approaches to climate change, the shifting symbolism of Pepe the Frog, the mechanics of pooping in space, and cats ... as well as a wide range of other topics.
She was a regular host of NPR's daily update on Facebook Live, "Newstime" and co-created NPR's live headline contest, "Head to Head," with Colin Dwyer.
Every now and again, she still slips some poetry into the news.
Camila graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina.
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Big automakers are planning to introduce several new models of electric vehicles in the coming year, though the demise of a hoped-for subsidy may keep sales sluggish in the short term.
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Compared to this time last year, we're all paying a lot more to use many kinds energy — whether it's gasoline for our cars or heating fuel for our homes.
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A new federal law will eventually require new vehicles to detect and prevent drunk driving, which would revolutionize vehicle safety. Here's a look at some of the technology being developed. -
If you've tried to buy a car this year, you probably don't need us to tell you that auto lots are empty and prices are high. It's just been that kind of a wild year.
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The new infrastructure law includes a requirement for a new safety feature in vehicles: Some sort of technology to detect and prevent drunk driving. But how would that actually work?
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A lot of new cars can drive themselves down the middle of a lane and adjust speed to match traffic. Some even let you go hands-free at times. But they all require very close supervision.
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OPEC delayed a committee meeting to assess the impact of the omicron variant. The group needs to decide whether to hit pause on production increases or keep boosting output.
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They aren't household names yet, but Rivian and Lucid are two auto startups attracting a lot of buzz – and loads of money.
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Many car companies are racing to be the next Tesla. Right now, two startups are leading the pack. Rivian and Lucid are each worth more than Ford, though they've only made a few hundred vehicles.
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A few years ago, an end to gasoline-powered cars was a pie-in-the-sky dream for environmentalists. Now, the push to phase out gas cars shows an understanding of the urgency to act on climate change.
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Presidents don't set the gas price you pay at the pump, but they're often blamed for it. And right now, high energy prices are helping send inflation to an over 30-year high.
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Rivian, which has just started deliveries of its battery-powered pickup truck, surged in its first day of trading after completing one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history.
