Let's Talk About What Happens to Old Electric Car Batteries

It might not be the first thing you think of, but it’s definitely a question that has entered the minds of many people looking at the : what actually happens to all those old car when you can’t use them anymore? It’s not something we’ve had to worry about for...

Sep 12, 2025

GM's Interesting Aero Patents Could be Used In Mid-Engine and Hybrid Cars

General Motors has filed a flurry of patent applications for active aerodynamic systems over the past couple of years, and the latest set of approved ones could have some interesting uses on cars we’ve been keeping our eyes on. One of the patents shows an active aero system specifically for...

Sep 12, 2025

Watching Gear Oil Splash Through This Clear Differential Cover Is Deeply Satisfying

Taking any remotely interesting mechanical contraption and almost always yields deeply satisfying visuals. And that’s the case here with this Ford F-150's clear rear differential cover, which shows gear oil splashing around the bearings and gears. I won’t pretend to be an expert on differentials, but what I do know...

Sep 12, 2025

Ikea Has 7 New Autonomous Driving Concepts To Waste Your Time In Traffic

It’s probably an inevitability at this point that we’ll eventually get fully autonomous cars to work properly and people won’t have to drive anymore. It isn’t going to happen soon, but eventually it will be possible. The Brands want autonomy to happen more than drivers do, it seems, because it...

Sep 12, 2025

Electric Startup Lucid Motors is Doing One Big Thing Right

Electric car startup is riding sky-high at the moment, having just secured a $1 billion investment to kickstart production of its first electric car. Coinciding with that announcement, Lucid said on Tuesday that it’s teaming up with Volkswagen’s electric charging company, Electrify America, which will provide owners of its first...

Sep 12, 2025

Lyft Will Pay Drivers in 35 Cities to Ditch Their Car for a Month

Lyft announced a pilot test in July that entailed , so long as they agree to give up their car for a month. Apparently Lyft’s pleased by the results, because on Wednesday, the startup announced it’s expanding the program to 35 cities across the U.S. This time around, Lyft wants...

Sep 12, 2025

Aftermarket Software Tuners SCT and Bully Dog Forced to Pay Significant EPA Penalty for Dirty Tunes

Derive Systems, parent company to popular aftermarket tuners Bully Dog and SCT, for manufacturing and distributing over 363,000 products that violate the Clean Air Act. In addition to the penalty, Derive Systems will be forced to spend as much as $6.25 million in order to ensure compliance of all future...

Sep 12, 2025

California Might Boost State EV Tax Credit to $4,500 Per Vehicle

Congress has tussled in recent months over the $7,500 federal tax credit allowed for electric vehicle purchases, while automakers like and prepare for the phase-out of the tax credit to begin. At the same time, California is considering an increase to its current state tax subsidy for EVs, from $2,500...

Sep 12, 2025

All The Craziest Things In The Elon Musk SEC Complaint

If it feels like we haven’t heard from our old pal the boss of Tesla after a wild series of events I’ve taken to calling the , it’s because he’s facing some from the Securities and Exchange Commission over his failed Twitter plan to take the public company private. And...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Will Use Regular Employees To Test New Autopilot Tech

Tesla has developed an incentivized program for regular employees to become beta testers for the automaker’s upcoming advanced Autopilot technology on the Teslas they own, according to an email obtained by . In the reported email, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees the new self-driving beta test program required around...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Settles Fraud Case With SEC; Musk Stays as CEO but Will Resign as Chairman

Days after it became public that was being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged fraud over the infamous “” tweet this summer, he and Tesla has reached a settlement that will keep him CEO—but will cost him his board chairman title. According to and multiple other reports,...

Sep 12, 2025

BMW Learns From GM and Will Watch Your Eyes to Make Sure You Don't Do Anything Stupid

Level 2 autonomy is the best we have on any production car sold today, and it’s not that great, really. Level 2 requires the person in the driver’s seat to be ready to take over driving at a moment’s notice. There’s several ways to try to make sure this is...

Sep 12, 2025

Mazda Officially Announces the Return of the Rotary Engine As Range Extenders for Electric Cars

See? And you thought all that praying to was for nothing, right? Well it worked: Mazda’s legendary Wankel rotary engine is coming back! To cars! Of course, Ahura Mazda’s power isn’t exactly what it was back in 500 BCE, so there’s a catch: Still, the rotary’s back! Finally, you can...

Sep 12, 2025

Consumer Reports Ranks Cadillac's Super Cruise Above Tesla's Autopilot, Also Says That Volvo's Pilot Assist Is Bad

Semi-autonomous features are increasingly prevalent in cars these days but also, as many have argued () possibly very dangerous. Today, Consumer Reports of four of the most widely known semiautonomous systems, finding that Cadillac’s Super Cruise was the best and Volvo’s, well, not. CR’s rankings take into account safety above...

Sep 12, 2025

BMW Is Dropping the Range Extender Version of the BMW i3 (UPDATED: Only in Europe)

I’ve always thought that the BMW i3 is one of the most originally-designed cars you can get today, inside and out. It’s also the only battery-electric vehicle on the market that can be bought with an internal-combustion range-extender option. Well, it was, because BMW announced they’ll be that extends the...

Sep 12, 2025