The RV Tech joint venture passed a key milestone, opens up $1 billion for Rivian. RV Tech, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and Rivian, has completed a successful winter test program, it said this morning. The partnership was created in 2024 when VW Group announced it would invest…
From Audis to Teslas, there’s a lot available in this price range. With a new war in the Middle East driving up gas prices, American drivers are once again remembering that electric vehicles are much cheaper to operate and therefore worth considering. Buying a brand-new EV might not be…
The mid-engined Corvette gets a new variant. Chevrolet provided flights from Albany, New York, to Las Vegas, Nevada, and accommodation so Ars could check out the new Grand Sport. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Chevrolet has developed something of a modern tradition with recent generations of the…
Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 and Afeela 2 are no more. Earlier this month Honda decided to cancel a trio of electric vehicles it was planning to build in the US. And those cancellations are having a ripple effect. Today Sony Honda Mobility—the automaker’s joint venture with the…
With production now finished, we take one last ride in our favorite station wagon. By the time you read this, the Audi RS6 Avant is dead. Production at the factory in Neckarsulm, Germany, has already switched over to new models; any unsold wagons at dealerships will be the last…
Google wants Android in cars to break out of the infotainment box. Android has been creeping into cars for more than a decade, first with the phone-based Android Auto and later with built-in Android Automotive OS. Even when Android is running on cars, it has not been allowed outside…
Five principles should determine how you fund transport, says Consumer Reports. They might be better than gas-powered cars in most conceivable ways, but electric vehicle sales are having an undeniably hard time right now. The cause is no mystery: since January 2025 the US government has been actively hostile…
It’s good news, but another federal Tesla defect probe deepened this week. One-pedal driving is not causing Tesla electric vehicles to suddenly accelerate when parked, according to federal regulators. For almost as long as Tesla has been selling cars, it has been hit with sporadic accusations of parked cars…
Station wagons used to be family cars, but now they’re for going fast, too. It is a strange quirk of fate that the station wagon has morphed from mass-market family transport into something far more esoteric (at least here in the US, a market that once embraced the form…
The iX3 SUV was very good; we think the i3 sedan will be even better. BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MALAGA, Spain—Late last year,…
