A heatwave, engine upgrades, plus power levels for the next two seasons. Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria this past weekend while the region sweltered under a heat dome. It was a weekend of unmet expectations: After such a strong performance in Barcelona, pundits were…
The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts. It seems to be the week for cheap EVs. Right after the production model of the Slate electric truck was revealed, complete with a bump in range, a new European entrant in electric mobility is launching…
With falling sales in the US and especially China, VW Group wants to restructure. Volkswagen Group is considering what was previously unthinkable: closing up to four factories in Germany and instituting layoffs that would shrink the workforce by 15 percent. 2025 was a bad year for Europe’s largest automaker.…
Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here. The electric car brand Polestar’s days in the US are seriously numbered. Today, the company revealed that the US Commerce Department has declined to authorize imports of new Polestars from model year 2027 onward…
It has 205 miles of bare-bones range. Slate provided flights from San Francisco to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could ride in the Slate truck. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LOS ANGELES—Slate Auto has pulled a Disneyland. Let me explain. At Disneyland, if a sign for…
Brands Hatch, COTA, and Zandvoort will all hold an e-Prix in 2027. Formula E is in its final year for the current technical regulations, with a new single-seater EV set to be introduced at the start of next season, which begins in December in Saudi Arabia. The new car,…
Tesla, accused of failing to fix design flaws, blames driver pressing accelerator. A few days after a Tesla plowed through a Texas home and killed a grandmother, the family sued the carmaker, alleging that the Model 3’s automated assist mode was defective. In a complaint filed this week in…
From a bare-bones pickup to a loaded, wrapped SUV, here’s what some Slates will cost. This morning, Slate Auto officially announced pricing for its Slate electric truck. Ars will have some time with a prototype later today, along with—hopefully—answers to many of our remaining questions. In the meantime, we…
Although it’s on the smaller side, this electric vehicle is not very chill. After a slower start than its major rivals, Toyota has been making up for it with a flurry of new electric vehicles for the North American market. Its first attempt, the bZ4x, was an also-ran, but…
Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash. An elderly Texas woman tragically died Friday after a man who told police he was relying on his Tesla Model 3’s automated driver-assistance mode lost control and crashed his car into her family’s home. In a statement,…
