BMW and Porsche's Three-Minute Ultrafast Charger Is Here to Cure Your Range Anxiety

BMW and Porsche unveiled a prototype ultrafast electric car charger capable of charging specially designed research cars to 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles, worth of charge in just three minutes and to 80 percent of battery life within 15 minutes. And just like that, the era of electric range...

Sep 13, 2025

Tesla Employee Claims It's Still Preventing Union Organizing

has kept up practices to prevent workers from organizing a union, even as it battles with a U.S. labor agency over allegations that its management violated federal labor laws, a new complaint alleges. In a complaint filed Dec. 5 with the National Labor Relations Board, the worker—whose name has been...

Sep 13, 2025

Watching the 2019 Honda Pilot's Torque Management System in Real Time Is Fascinating

As brands seem, more and more, to only care about “” and “,” it’s nice when more driver-oriented features show up in even the most utilitarian of people haulers. Enter the , which can animate its torque-management system in real time in front of the driver. ( I asked Honda...

Sep 13, 2025

Honda's Autonomous Work Vehicles Are Coming To Make Humans Redundant

Honda has a new concept set to debut at CES in Las Vegas next month, an all-terrain vehicle fitted with autonomous bits meant to make off-road work easier, safer, and more efficient, . The concept, called “Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle”, starts off innocently enough. The snow throwing autonomous vehicle above...

Sep 13, 2025

2018 Was a Hard Reality Check For Autonomous Cars

As the automotive industry continues to throw all of its weight behind developing self-driving technologies for the near-future, looking back on 2018—which included , wake-up calls about and the first known pedestrian —does anything but sell the promise of having feasible self-driving cars on the road anytime soon. Contrary to...

Sep 13, 2025

What the Actual Shit Was That

Elon Musk and his Boring Company made quite a bit of a splash out in Los Angeles last night, but instead of grandiose visions of ThE FuTuRe, we got what some were derisively comparing to a Disney tram mashed up with an SUV. And the questions go wildly downhill from...

Sep 13, 2025

Autonomous Driving Startup Zoox Gets California's Okay To Offer Rides To The Public

Silicon Valley autonomous driving startup Zoox applied for, and has been the first company approved for, autonomous driving on regular streets with regular people as passengers in the State of California. The company is not allowed to charge for the rides, and the vehicle must still have a technician in...

Sep 13, 2025

Volkswagen's Mobile Charging Stations Sound Like a Great Idea

One of the hurdles of widespread EV ownership is the lack of charging infrastructure. Charging station just aren’t numerous or readily accessible enough in some regions for people to feel secure about buying an electric car. Which is why I very much like Volkswagen’s idea of mobile charging stations. The...

Sep 13, 2025

Aggrieved Tesla Owners Can Just Tow Trucks Blocking The Supercharger Stations

Tesla drivers calls it , after the initials for internal combustion engine: It’s where gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles block access to Superchargers as a way to... protest electric vehicles I guess? It has to be frustrating to be barred from obtaining the single thing your car needs to function, but...

Sep 13, 2025

Waymo's Self-Driving Vans Were Attacked at Least 21 Times in 2018

finally launched its public self-driving ride-sharing program in Arizona after a year of testing, but it’s been a year full of gun-wielding, rock-throwing, tire-slashing Arizonians targeting the company’s vans. It only took a few months of testing on the public roads in the Phoenix, Arizona area for the locals to...

Sep 13, 2025

The 2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA Has a Brand New Luxury: Motion Activated Dome Lights

Gone are the days of aimlessly digging through the piles of crap you’ve accumulated on your passenger seat in the dark—if you’re planning to drive a , that is. A new teaser video released on social media displays a neat new concept: a motion activated dome light. The video was...

Sep 13, 2025

Dystopian Rearview Mirrors Will Remember You With an Iris Scan

Michigan-based automotive mirror specialist Gentex is looking to debut rearview mirrors that contain iris-scanning technology at CES in Las Vegas, according to the . We’re well on our way to a full-on Blade Runner 2049 kind of lifestyle. The iris-scanning system will be able to identify each individual driver, given...

Sep 13, 2025

Modern Cars Aren't As Heavy As You May Think

It seems to be a common complaint these days that modern cars are getting too big and too heavy. And that’s mostly true—the only car to actually stick to its weight seems to be the . But cars aren’t actually getting much heavier—if you ignore the nameplate. It is completely...

Sep 13, 2025

The New Porsche 911 Comes With 'Wet Mode' If You Drive Too Fast

The was introduced back in November with a new chassis feature called “Wet Mode,” which Porsche admits was added to help prevent aquaplaning on wet roads because, apparently, 911 drivers tend to drive fast. Who knew? Everything Different on the 2020 Porsche 911 Aquaplaning, or hydroplaning, occurs when a layer...

Sep 13, 2025

The Fascinating Engineering Behind VW's Electric Car Platform of the Future

, the company that brought us , wants us to forget its last eco-disaster by promising to bring affordable electric cars to the masses starting in 2020. Those cars will ride on an all-new electric platform called MEB. The automaker calls it “one of the most important projects in the...

Sep 13, 2025