Instead of contracting an outside team to campaign it, Ford Racing gets the job. Formula 1 might be riding high these days on a wave of interest not seen since the 1960s, but the Drive to Survive effect has been felt elsewhere in the world of motorsport. Endurance racing…
Sunrun, Ford, and BGE started the vehicle-to-grid test in July. The idea of using an electric vehicle’s battery to send energy from the EV to the electrical grid is not a new idea. Ars first covered the technology, known as vehicle-to-grid or V2G, back in 2009 when Ford and…
The Ridgeville plant will add a new hybrid by 2030 in addition to next year’s XC60. Volvo is undergoing something of a restructuring. The automaker wants to be fully electric by 2040, but for that to happen, it needs to remain in business until then. Earlier this year, that…
Tesla’s crash rate is orders of magnitude worse than Waymo’s. These days, Austin, Texas feels like ground zero for autonomous cars. Although California was the early test bed for autonomous driving tech, the much more permissive regulatory environment in the Lone Star State, plus lots of wide, straight roads…
Baku is a mashup of Monaco and Monza, 90 feet below sea level. Almost a decade old now, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix is part of the modern breed of Formula 1 street circuits. Set on the shores of the Caspian Sea, the anti-clockwise layout manages to combine some of…
The upgrade is to dual Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin computers, also for Polestar 3. If you own a 2025 Volvo EX90, here’s some good news: You’re getting a car computer upgrade. Even better news? It’s free. The Swedish automaker says that owners of model year 2025 EX90s—like the one…
If you wanted an Ariya, you can blame the Trump tariffs for its cancellation. Last week we drove the new Nissan Leaf, an inexpensive compact electric vehicle. Now equipped with things like active battery thermal management, the new Leaf is actually Nissan’s second modern EV, after the debut a…
Cars have lost 12 V power, trapping children and dogs in hot cars. When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency began wielding its ax at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this year, many believed this was done to weaken the agency’s oversight over Tesla. But despite the…
AI-designed crash structures, thin acoustic coatings, adhesive recovery, and more. Although cars are much safer—for their occupants at least—than they used to be, that has come at a cost: added weight. The problem is exacerbated in electric vehicles and their heavy battery packs; rare is the EV we’ve driven…
Cooperative cruising cuts congestion in Contra Costa during ProPilot pilot study. I recently learned of a rather interesting pilot study undertaken by Nissan together with the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and UC Berkeley that leverages the automaker’s partially automated driving system, ProPilot Assist, to ease traffic congestion. The idea…
