Philip Reed

Phil grew up fixing lawn mowers, motorcycles and cars. He began his journalism career as a night police reporter in Chicago before transitioning into providing consumer advice, authoring two popular books about car buying and leasing. The automotive site Edmunds hired him to buy and sell the company's test cars, and he later joined NerdWallet and wrote a syndicated automotive column. He recently authored the book Electric Cars: Get Rolling Today. Phil lives in Long Beach, California and still enjoys turning wrenches and helping his son change the oil in his 2016 Mazda3.