The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to “simplify the company,” the CEO says. Just three months ago, Lucid Motors showed off a new midsize electric vehicle platform that it said would give rise to a number of new vehicles in the coming years. The Saudi-backed startup…
The high-altitude race is a unique test of car and driver. Chevrolet provided flights from Albany, New York, to Denver, Colorado, and accommodation so Ars could attend the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—If you drive the 12.4-mile (20 km),…
The official launch takes place next week. One of the most hotly anticipated electric vehicles makes its formal debut next week. It’s the Blank Slate, a refreshingly simple pickup truck EV designed by Slate Auto, which is trying to take some of the soaring cost out of a new…
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated “E-Shifts.” Has the allure of the Porsche Taycan waned? The four-door electric sedan that thinks it’s a GT sold well for the first few years after its introduction in 2020, but sales began to slip even before the brand…
The service will leverage its Moovit platform to launch in an a US city in 2027. The driving technology company Mobileye plans to launch a robotaxi service in an as-yet-unnamed US city in 2027, it said earlier today. The service will be vertically integrated, using Mobileye’s Moovit mobility platform…
Armed with a ton of new upgrades, Ferrari came to Spain full of confidence. Formula 1 raced in Spain this past weekend. The Barcelona-Catalunya circuit is one of F1’s purpose-built race tracks, with a number of fast corners and a track surface that’s more abrasive than usual. That means…
More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night. One of motorsport’s three biggest races takes place this weekend in France. It is the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans, an endurance race that, together with the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, make up…
Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you’re chasing milliseconds. Among the ways Formula 1 has changed in the 21st century has been its adoption of driver-in-the-loop simulators. It all started in the early 2000s, probably at McLaren, maybe at Toyota or Ferrari; F1 teams are notoriously secretive about…
Honda’s $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg. You can tell Honda was trying to manage expectations when it emailed me to stress that “the Prelude is not a sports car.” And I can understand why. On paper, the specs make the sleek coupe—technically a…
There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already. Electric vehicle sales might be better now than the end of last year when demand fell off a cliff following the surge of purchases ahead of the end of the federal financial incentives,…
