Porsche's Super-Fast Electric Charging Stations Are Coming

has rolled out a smart gameplan for the debut of its Misison E all-electric sport car—now unfortunately dubbed the —by coupling efforts to install super-fast DC chargers at all of its U.S. dealerships with the car’s release. Now, Porsche says it has its first set of 800-volt, 320 kW chargers...

Sep 12, 2025

Where Flint Is At Today And What Elon Musk Can Really Do To Help

Less than a week ago, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was in a Thailand cave with a mini-submarine his team made for the daring rescue of 12 boys and a soccer coach trapped inside. Now, he says he wants to help resolve . Expectedly, this latest move drew scorn...

Sep 12, 2025

The Long-Range Nissan Leaf E-Plus Will Reportedly Have 200 HP

The updated Nissan Leaf EV features a revamped, kind of boring look and . But the forthcoming long-range trim—dubbed the Leaf E-Plus—should make it a tad more exciting, with a new report saying it’ll have a total output of 200 horsepower, making it a solid competitor with Chevy’s Bolt and...

Sep 12, 2025

There's a Whopping 487 Electric Vehicle Makers in China Now

Major automakers and startups are vying to launch electric vehicles in the U.S. in the coming years, competing for a small slice of the car buying public. But however crowded the field gets here, it’s nothing like what’s going on in China, which now has, no joke, 487 electric vehicle...

Sep 12, 2025

This Story on a German Engineer Who Made an Autonomous Mercedes Van in 1986 Is Fascinating

Besides a few of the minor, current examples of , we’re still decades away, if ever, from . The achievements that have been made to date, however, can be attributed to pioneering engineers like Ernst Dickmanns, whose effort to outfit vehicles with autonomous technology back in the 1980s is profiled...

Sep 12, 2025

Ford Autonomous Vehicles: The Spin-Off Company That Will Drop $4 Billion on Autonomous Cars by 2023

Ford is planning to spend $4 billion on developing self-driving cars by 2023, the automaker said Tuesday, in an announcement that also detailed the creation of a new spin-off entity cleverly titled Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC. It seems like Ford is consolidating all its self-driving ventures and tech under one...

Sep 12, 2025

Get a Load of This Ridiculous Story About How Elon Musk Called a Tesla Critic’s Boss to Complain About Him (Updated)

When you’re immersed in the toxic sideshow that is the ongoing debate between Tesla’s bears and bulls, it’s common to feel like whatever’s happening with the automaker—, the CEO —can’t get any stupider. But we may have just hit the apex of stupid. This week, CEO Elon Musk took time...

Sep 12, 2025

Even UberPool Is Making Traffic Worse in Cities

One of the main talking points about Uber and Lyft is that, by getting more people to take taxi rides instead of drive, congestion would ease up everywhere. . And now, , it appears Uber and Lyft’s services to pool riders into cars, with the ostensible purpose of helping alleviate...

Sep 12, 2025

Faraday Future Wants Its First Production Car to Have 1,089 HP

Despite its very harsh ups and downs in recent years, Faraday Future has somehow ended up with a $2 billion lifeline to see through the making of its first production vehicle, the all-electric FF 91. The startup has said , but a new document filed with the federal government suggests...

Sep 12, 2025

I Want to Do a Cannonball Run but Mike Ballaban Is Concerned He’ll Have to Do Paperwork

Here is something I want to do: Drive across the country, nonstop, until I reach the Pacific Ocean. What I’d like to do is break one of , but if I don’t, whatever. I just want to do it. My colleague, Jalopnik Deputy Editor Michael Ballaban, thinks this is a...

Sep 12, 2025

Taxis Are Jamming Spanish Streets in Nationwide Cab Driver Strike Over Uber

Taxi drivers in Spain are entering the third say of a strike designed to put pressure on the nation’s government to cap the number of licenses issued to ride-hailing services like Uber, . Taxi drivers have ensnared main arteries, bus and train stations, and airports with traffic by simply parking...

Sep 12, 2025

Uber Is Shuttering Its Controversial Self-Driving Truck Unit From Hell

Uber is ending its effort to develop self-driving trucks, just two years after the controversial acquisition of the autonomous trucking unit that and caused countless controversies for the ride-hailing company. Uber confirmed the news, , saying it will instead focus its efforts entirely on developing autonomous cars. “We recently took...

Sep 12, 2025

Lyft Will Pay Chicago Residents $550 to Ditch Their Cars for a Month

Lyft is seeking out Chicago residents to give up their cars for a month, and in return, will pay them $550 in credits for other forms of transportation, , including Lyft rides, bike-sharing, and public transportation. Both Lyft and Uber are jockeying to position themselves as the formidable , with...

Sep 12, 2025

The Tiny All-Electric Elcar Had a 55 Mile Range and Sounded Like a Lawnmower [Correction: I'm A Dumbass]

We’ve written plenty before about the , but, thanks to The Dallas Morning News for this week, I want to stake out the 1975 all-electric Elcar as my likely favorite pick of that era. The boxy, adorably weird little thing managed to crank out a 55 mile range on a...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla's Alleged 'Saboteur' Files $1 Million Defamation Suit Against Automaker

A former Tesla technician accused by the automaker of and leaking it to outside sources, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the automaker over statements made by CEO Elon Musk in recent weeks. There is some wild stuff in thisnew complaint. The technician, former Gigafactory employee Martin Tripp, filed his...

Sep 12, 2025