Tesla Made a Profit, So What Now?

Tesla over the summer to hit an ambitious target set by Elon Musk: report a profit in the third quarter of this year. The automaker indeed on Wednesday, a tremendous feat to consider, given it’s making only all-electric cars. So what now? The results—only the third profitable quarter Tesla has...

Sep 12, 2025

Massive Study Shows People Think Autonomous Cars Should Kill Criminals Before Dogs Among Other Revelations

A game-like survey called the has been polling over two million people from 233 countries over the past two years to get their input on how autonomous vehicles should behave, morally, in life-or-death situations. The results from the massive poll have now been published in the , and the results...

Sep 12, 2025

Read About Restoring the Oldest Production Volkswagen Beetle in This Intensely Detailed Book

It’s possible that the Volkswagen Beetle has one of the most complicated and often disturbing origin stories of any car, which is why there’s often so much fascination surrounding really early cars. Very early cars are notoriously difficult to find, which is why the restoration of this car, with a...

Sep 12, 2025

Inside the Only Supercar Factory In America

Plenty of auto manufacturers are known for high-tech factories that make halo cars. But usually those facilities are in Europe, like Bugatti’s sparkling white plant in France or McLaren’s incredible speed laboratory in England. Acura would like you to change your thinking here, one of the most advanced car factories...

Sep 12, 2025

Chinese Investor Hounding Faraday Future's CEO For $100 Million

Electric car startup Faraday Future is circling the drain (), with the company confirming Tuesday that co-founder Nick Sampson has departed and . At the same time, embattled CEO Jia Yueting is dealing with serious problems of his own: a Chinese investor is trying to convince a California judge to...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Owner Uses 'Summon' to Remotely Move His Car to Avoid Parking Tickets

Tesla is planning a on its cars that will let you drive your Tesla around like a colossal R/C car, but even in its current, more limited form, Summon is pretty useful. Watch how this guy in Wisconsin uses it to get out of receiving parking tickets in the most...

Sep 12, 2025

Cadillac Ends $1,800-a-Month Car Subscription Service

General Motors seems hellbent on tearing down the house that former Cadillac CEO Johan de Nysschen built, and now, , that includes the $1,800 a month Book by Cadillac subscription car program. Cadillac will wind down the subscription service by the end of the year, the WSJ reported, citing unnamed...

Sep 12, 2025

Bird Sues Beverly Hills for Banning Its Scooter Invasion

Cities are trying to figure out how to rein in the frenzied introduction of electric scooters, and that includes outright bans of the vehicles. Bird, one of the main scooter-centric startups, filed a lawsuit last Thursday to overturn a ban implemented this summer by the City of Beverly Hills, the...

Sep 12, 2025

Whatever Is Going on in This Video of Starting a Car From the Door Handle, It's Weird

I’ll be honest, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on in this video, or why. All I know for sure is it’s been making the rounds on Facebook and it’s oddly simple. It’s just a video of someone attempting to open a car door with a key, and that key,...

Sep 12, 2025

Track Mode Is Out to Turn a Tesla Model 3 Performance Into a Drift Machine

Starting today, if you’ve got a , it’s about to be a hell of a lot more fun on your next track day. Tesla is finally putting out the long-awaited “Release Version” of Track Mode for its smallest and most fun car, and it sounds incredibly clever and looks like...

Sep 12, 2025

The Future of Safe Self-Driving Cars Is Thermal Imaging

By the end of this year, self-driving program plans on expanding its public self-driving ride-sharing program in Arizona, and in the next decade there are about working to do the same. Many of these systems don’t yet use thermal imaging, but after a demonstration of how effective it is at...

Sep 12, 2025

Jaguar Is Thinking About Implementing Biometric Sensors to Prevent Motion Sickness

I don’t know what’s worse: getting car sick or being the person in whose car someone is starting to feel sick. While we’re , it’s something that impacts up to 90% of folks to some degree. Now, the Jaguar Land Rover is looking into ways the car itself can combat...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Model 3 Performance Disqualified From Global Time Attack Podium Because 'Electricity Is Not a Fuel' [Update: Not A Surprise]

Even if you don’t love Teslas, being a sore loser is definitely worse than being a fanboy. The driver of a Tesla Model 3 Performance equipped with the new made it to second place at the Global Time Attack Super Lap at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Buttonwilliow, California over the...

Sep 12, 2025

Elon Musk Imposters Are Scamming People on Twitter for Bitcoin Again

A week ago, several verified accounts on Twitter from unwitting mopes by utilizing CEO Elon Musk’s name, and made off with at least $180,000. On Monday, the hackers were back at it, taking control of several hacked accounts—including and —to promote the scam. The ploy rippled across Twitter in short...

Sep 12, 2025

Russian Heroes Dress Up as a Bus to Cross Bridge

Back in 2012, the city of Vladivostok, Russia opened a shiny new bridge over the Zolotoy Rog Bay to make life easier for everyone, and then in 2015 they stopped letting people cross it on foot. Now the people have had enough, and they’re taking action. There has been a...

Sep 12, 2025