Tesla Model 3 Owner Recharges Car by Having It Towed

The , like most , uses regenerative braking to help trickle charge the car’s battery and extend the range. In theory, one could use the regenerative powers of the car’s motors to charge the battery by having the whole thing towed, and now a Model 3 owner has put that...

Sep 12, 2025

Electric Audi With Formula E Motors Does Brain-Breaking Perfect Donut

I have never seen a car do a better donut from standstill than this heavily modified, electrified with motors called the . Schaeffler, a motorsports company known for engineering vehicles that can be raced backwards almost as quickly as they can drive forwards, has been showing off its latest monster,...

Sep 12, 2025

Autonomous Cars Should Be Ready for Snow Just in Time for Global Warming to Eliminate Winter

John Krafcik, CEO of Google’s self-driving car arm Waymo, said this week that it will take decades for autonomous cars to be ready to drive in snow and winter. Hm. I wonder what else is going to happen by a few decades’ time. . The news comes to us from...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's How Insanely Quickly the McLaren 720S Shifts Gears

One of the first things you notice when you are in a supercar is the acceleration above 80 mph, which tends toward the stupid. The second thing you notice is how quickly modern dual-clutch transmissions shift—like video-game quick here on the . Our friend Jason Fenske at Engineering Explained to...

Sep 12, 2025

Why Porsche Does Intake Manifolds Different From Everyone Else

I think it’s safe to say most of us, even those of us uncomfortably car-obsessed, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about intake manifolds. I feel like we tend to treat them as just those tubes that hold up the fun stuff, like carburetors and turbochargers and that sort...

Sep 12, 2025

Reminder: Yes, You Absolutely Need Winter Tires Even If You Have All-Wheel Drive

No matter how often we stress the importance of , I still hear people saying that they feel better with a all- or four-wheel drive car when conditions get icy and snowy. Then they run around and tell their clueless friends this, too! So I will continue to write about...

Sep 12, 2025

Yes The McLaren 720S Can Do Donuts

The has about 720 horsepower, because of its name. Butis that enough to overwhelm literally any tire? Yes, yes it is. Can’t believe you would even ask that. ...

Sep 12, 2025

FedEx Expands Zero Emissions Fleet With 1,000 New Chanje Electric Vans

In much the same way that pornography has influenced humanity’s choice of VHS over Betamax and later BluRay over HD DVD, it is possible that the shipping industry’s slow move to electric propulsion will be the impetus behind a larger shift of society at large. It’s Last week that it...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's What Could Be In Congress's Last-Minute Push For Autonomous Car Legislation

U.S. senators are making a last-ditch effort to pass self-driving car legislation just before the new year, and have made a number of changes to , according to a copy of the draft bill obtained by Jalopnik. But safety experts say the effort doesn’t go far nearly far enough. The...

Sep 12, 2025

Skipping Gears on a Manual Transmission Is Fine

Apparently there’s some debate over whether or not it is ok to skip over gears on a stickshift car. Uh. Ok? Yeah, no, it’s fine. This was not a debate that I was aware of, but the ace rally staff of (namely friend of Jalopnik Wyatt Knox) recently sought to...

Sep 12, 2025

Volkswagen Says Its Next Generation of Internal Combustion Engines Will Be Its Last

Pretty much every major car company is planning a big pivot to electric vehicles in the coming years, but few are going as big as the Volkswagen Group. It’s planning by 2022, and more on other EV architectures in development like the . So how does VW balance that with...

Sep 12, 2025

Ford Patents Conveyor Belts for SUV Cargo Areas So You Don't Have to Crawl in and Possibly Expose Your Butt to Everyone

Ever since there have been station wagons and other vehicles with long, open cargo areas, people have been packing them via the somewhat undignified process of crawling inside them like how I imagine a vet attending to an elephant’s hemorrhoids must do things. Ford, it seems, has decided to address...

Sep 12, 2025

Waymo Launches the First Commercial Self-Driving Taxi Service—With Caveats

, Google’s self-driving car project, hit another milestone on Wednesday by launching an Uber-like service in Arizona that’s driven by a fleet of autonomous taxis. But there’s some caveats to the service. The service, dubbed Waymo One, will ferry a group of riders that have participated in the company’s autonomous...

Sep 12, 2025

This 1911 Film Predicted the Dangers of Autonomous Vehicles, Like Dragging Cops and Dogs and Getting Stranded Inside of Saturn

I know we tend to think that robotically-driven cars are a very recent phenomenon, but the truth is that people have been imagining the consequences of AVs since the turn of the last century. In fact, there’s at least one film that addresses the issues head-on, ’s 1911 film, ....

Sep 12, 2025

Working at Tesla Means Being in an 'Abusive Relationship' With Elon Musk: Report

What separates , at least according to the marketing copy, from every other car company is this: It’s not driven by a desire for profit, but by a mission to save the planet from climate change by electrifying our cars. But what’s it like to live that mission every day...

Sep 12, 2025