This Polestar 1 Prototype Build Is the Most Relaxing Thing You'll Watch All Day

Hey, there. Feeling kinda stressed out? Overworked? Under-rested? Girl, saaame. Extremely same. That’s why you should take three and a half minutes out of your busy day to just sit back, relax a bit and watch this prototype build video. It’ll help you find some inner peace. The 1 is...

Sep 12, 2025

The SEC Deserved This

Just days after copping to with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his infamous tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked the agency on Thursday with glee, calling it the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” (ha ha) and potentially scuttling the entire deal for, I dunno, a joke? Nonetheless, the SEC’s probably hopping...

Sep 12, 2025

Why We Don't Have Crazy Good Five-Minute-Charging Batteries For Electric Cars Yet

Electric vehicle batteries are a problematic business: About half of the carbon generated by building the whole car is dedicated to the lithium-ion cell system, they weigh a lot—the Tesla Model S’ clocks in at 1,200 pounds, even at the smaller 85kWh size—and then there’s charging time, which for your...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's One Way Autonomous Vehicles Could Make Owning Old Cars Better

There are many, many ideas and concepts and startup companies around right now that envision shared autonomous vehicles as a way to eliminate private car ownership. For many people, that’s great, but for people like us, filthy-fingernailed car lovers, there’s not all that much appeal to these ideas. But autonomy...

Sep 12, 2025

Let's Go For A Jaunty Ride Around A Park On A Honda Zook

If you aren’t already following the Honda Japan on YouTube, you really ought to be, because they occasionally post some nifty little videos from the Honda Collection Hall museum. The videos often feature an obscure Honda ride—like the Zook here—that you may not have even heard of. While all of...

Sep 12, 2025

Ferrari Files Patent Application for a Ridiculous Intake Amplification System

Simulated and amplified engine sounds are all the rage these days, and there are various ways to implement them. Systems that use the speakers to play a noise like those from BMW are often chided for being fake, but those that just pipe in the vibrations to the cabin are...

Sep 12, 2025

The $7,500 Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Would Be Killed Under This Senator's Legislation

John Barrasso, a Republican senator from Wyoming, got over $400,000 from the oil and gas industries in the last election cycle, more than anyone in Congress, . So it’s something less than a surprise that on Tuesday, Barrasso introduced legislation to wipe out the federal electric vehicle tax credit. The...

Sep 12, 2025

Buick's Promo Video for the Regal GS Seems to Show the Car With A Burned-Out Headlight UPDATE 2: Buick Responds!

I’m a little concerned about the lives of some of our readership, as one reader named Anubhav emailed us to let us know he was so bored he was actually spending time on Buick’s website. While this suggests deeper problems, he did notice one strange detail: on the promo video...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Shows What the Parking Garage of the Future Could Look Like

This is brand new charging station in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong—a site that Tesla calls one of the biggest Tesla destination charging stations on earth, and the very biggest one in Asia. My brother and his friend just stopped by the facility to have a look. Here’s what he saw....

Sep 12, 2025

When Does Your Car Become an Old Car?

My 2008 Honda Fit Sport had been a model of reliability until, a few weeks ago while driving back from upstate, , like plastic burning. I pulled over and opened the hood and saw a puff of smoke rise out. About $1,600 and several days later, I began to contemplate...

Sep 12, 2025

This Steering Wheel Found on Many American Cars Had an Unusual Horn Interface and a Dirty-Sounding Name

While smacking your hand into the center of a steering wheel is the generally-accepted default way to sound a car’s horn, there’s been a number of other methods over the years: rings, buttons, stalks, levers—honk-producing actions have been wildly varied. Perhaps one of the greatest yet mostly forgotten ways was...

Sep 12, 2025

Jaguar Finally Confirms the 2019 I-Pace Has a Range of 234 Miles

The 2019 I-Pace has generated plenty of buzz, with the automaker expecting it to produce 240 miles of range on a single charge. The official result, per multiple reports, is that Jaguar landed a fewmiles shy of that target, clocking in at 234 total. The figure had yet to be...

Sep 12, 2025

Watching Abrasive Flow Cleaning of an Engine Is So Mesmerizing

Some of you hardcore machining enthusiasts have probably known about abrasive flow, also known as extrude honing,for a while now. I just discovered it, and I can’t stop watching the cleansing metallic ooze flowing through manifolds, leaving clean and polished intakes in their wake. They’re like those awful pimple-popping videos,...

Sep 12, 2025

Quick Question: What Qualifies as an Automatic Transmission?

Today, as we swung forlornly in our individual work-pods, a number of us here at the Jalopnik Automotive Content Origination Facility (JACOF) found ourselves drawn into a strange discussion: what counts as an automatic transmission, or a manual transmission? It seems obvious, but it’s actually a little more complex. Our...

Sep 12, 2025

Watch a Tesla Mistake a Washer and Dryer for a Bus

Computer vision is no joke. themselves and generate some idea of what’s around them. That’s why it’s really not all that surprising to see mistakes like this. But that doesn’t mean it’s not also kind of funny, because we humans very rarely mistake washers and dryers for buses unless we’re...

Sep 12, 2025