AI will help drive you and entertain you, according to Sony Honda Mobility. Six years after Sony first announced its automotive ambitions, everything is looking a lot more concrete. Production of the Afeela 1, the electric sedan that has been developed by Sony Honda Mobility, is already underway in…
It’s like Tesla Autopilot, but made by a company with a culture of safety. There’s some debate as to when adaptive cruise control first showed up, but if you ask Mercedes-Benz, it will say in 1999 with that year’s S-Class. Instead of just keeping a set speed, radar-enabled adaptive…
Deadly doors, a busted battery bet, and a toxic owner: What’s not to like? Tesla published its final production and delivery numbers this morning, and they make for brutal reading. Sales were down almost 16 percent during the final three months of last year, meaning the company sold 77,343…
Of all the cars we’ve driven and reviewed this year, these are our picks. 2025 has been a tumultuous year for the car world. After years of EV optimism, revanchists are pushing back against things like clean energy and fuel economy. Automakers have responded, postponing or canceling new electric…
A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage. There’s still another couple of months before the 2026 crop of F1 cars takes to the track for the first preseason test. It’s a year of big change for the sport, which is adopting…
A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos. San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as…
You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox’s sub-$35,000 starting price. There’s a lot of goodwill out there for the Chevrolet Bolt. As maybe the first properly affordable longer-range electric car on the market, the Bolt wasn’t perfect. It didn’t charge very fast, and people found the…
Forget DRS, now it’s all about corner mode, straight mode, and overtake mode. While not quite a separate dialect, Formula 1-speak can be heavy on the jargon at times. They say “box” instead of pit, “power unit” to describe the engine and hybrid system, and that’s before we get…
A prototype of the EV platform will be shown off at CES next month. One of the big stories of last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the debut of Donut Lab’s diminutive but powerful electric motors. When I spoke with Donut earlier this year, the company…
At SEMA, we heard Trump-like talking points but saw skateboard chassis, too. After federal clean vehicle tax credits ended in September, the electric vehicle industry reached a crossroads. Well, technically, it has been there since Trump took office. This is a weird period in automotive history; A chunk of…
