Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year. Formula 1’s lengthy 2026 season is entering its final stretch. The sport took to the floodlit streets of Singapore on Sunday night, but Saturday saw action, too; this Grand Prix weekend was also the final of…
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old. Volkswagen’s ID.4 is no more. The midsize crossover debuted in 2021, one of VW’s first new electric vehicles designed in the wake of dieselgate. A year later, the company began local production in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and…
Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals. One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them is—or used to…
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs. Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of…
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups. There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser…
The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV. There is, I think, a pent-up demand for bringing electrification to camping. Anyone who’s had their sleep disturbed by the sound of someone else’s generator running at night would probably agree. Certainly, any time…
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot. Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race. For one thing, it was held several thousand miles from Bahrain itself. The ongoing war with Iran…
Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025. Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think…
Autonomous vehicle designers have to worry about riders getting frisky in public. Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat. Recently, The San Francisco…
The 2027 BMW 330 starts at $49,900, the i3 50 xDrive at $61,500. BMW has opened the US order books for its hotly anticipated new 3 Series sedan. Built on an all-new platform called Neue Klasse, it now offers a fully electric version for the first time, using BMW’s…
