You Can't Even See the Coolest Part of McLaren's 720S Spider

The 2020 is cool in many ways. It has a , and a . But by far, the coolest thing about it is its carbon fiber monocoque chassis. And you can’t even see from the outside, which is a shame. In 2017, the coupe came out swinging with a new...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's How Much the Tesla Model 3 Performance Saves In Fuel Costs Versus a Regular Car

Everybody likes to talk about how electric cars like the are much more cost-efficient to own compared to gasoline powered cars, especially when it comes to fuel costs. Comparing a to something like the , the cost savings seem significant. In the latest video from , Jason runs through some...

Sep 13, 2025

Erik Buell's New Company Fuell Jumping Into The Electric Bike Market

That’s not a joke, they really called the company Fuell. Buell has partnered with Sauber team principle and owner of Formula E chassis-builder Spark Racing Technology Frédéric Vasseur, as well as entrepreneur Francois-Xavier Terny, to launch the electric bike company. Erik Buell is well known in the American motorcycle world....

Sep 13, 2025

Scientists Just Figured Out How to Weld Metal to Glass Which Could Revolutionize Car Manufacturing

This is one of those things that just doesn’t sound like it should work at all: Somehow melting together glass and metal to combine into one, unified, part-glass/part-metal mongrel whole. If it could be done, it would be a breakthrough for automobile manufacturing, which is all about combining glass and...

Sep 13, 2025

Volvo's Testing Autonomous Buses in Singapore

Singapore may only be about 280 square miles in size and regularly beset by monsoon, but for those reasons and more it’s quickly becoming a hotbed of autonomous vehicle testing. And you may even soon be able to catch a self-driving Volvo bus there. Volvo will start testing full-size driverless...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Another Dummy Apparently Sleeping at the Wheel of a Tesla on the Highway

You may recall back in late January we wrote about handled the driving, at least as best it could, since, remember, it’s just a and is in no way qualified to be trusted to drive a car without some human oversight. This was a bad idea. And it’s still a...

Sep 13, 2025

Volkswagen Could Have the Best Electric Lineup—and It's All Thanks to Dieselgate

You may recall the other day we told you about a , one heavily inspired by old dune buggies like the Meyers Manx. It’s that VW execs are or so other companies can put cars like it into production. This got me thinking—if this actually happens, VW could end up...

Sep 13, 2025

New York Could Soon Be Less of a Transportation Nightmare for People With Disabilities

Perhaps you’ve heard of a little thing called the Americans with Disabilities Act, better known as the ADA, a federal law passed in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. It’s a very famous law! But in New York City, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways and...

Sep 13, 2025

Tesla Employees Call 'Bullshit' On Online Sales Claims Amid Retail Closure Chaos

Derek was working at home from his sales job at a Tesla store on February 28. He wanted to have a leg up on some leads in anticipation of the big announcement to come at 5 p.m.. He surmised it would be the triumphant declaration that the Tesla Model 3...

Sep 13, 2025

Toyota Patented a Fragrance Dispenser That Can Also Hit a Potential Car Thief With Tear Gas

Some of us still like to live by the motto that manual transmissions —a good, if dying, sentiment. But most , so it’s about time automakers come up with a new one. Perhaps that’s why Toyota just filed for a vehicle fragrance dispenser with a tear-gas setting. Nothing like some...

Sep 13, 2025

This Traffic-Ending Technology Would Have Worked, as Long as You Ignore the Reasons It Wouldn't

You can be forgiven if you don’t remember Arrivo, a shuttered Hyperloop-esque company founded by the former Hyperloop One executive . In addition to some wildly ambitious ideas, it had many slogans: “Engineered to get us there.” “The End of Traffic.” But the one that best encapsulated the erstwhile company’s...

Sep 13, 2025

Watch Tesla's Sentry Mode Catch Thieves Breaking In On Camera

’s new , which is designed to use the car’s cameras to catch thieves in the act of breaking into the car, was only introduced last month, but has already proven very effective. Last month, Tesla introduced a new security feature on its vehicles which actively monitors the car’s cameras...

Sep 13, 2025

Like Most Americans, Trump Is Apparently Afraid of Self-Driving Cars

When you really get down to it, life is a constant struggle to maintain the illusion of control. Take those stupid buttons at crosswalks. The ones you jab while waiting for the hand to turn into the walking dude. —the traffic lights are on timers. Pressing the button over and...

Sep 13, 2025

Everybody Is Designing Electric Car Chargers Wrong, But I Have an Idea

You’ve seen a normal electric car charging station, right? The charging infrastructure isn’t really there yet, but it’s still likely you’ve seen one. They tend to be some sort of wall-mounted box or free-standing obelisk-like thing with a long, thick cable, terminating in the plug that connects to the car....

Sep 13, 2025

The Original Chevy Volt Had a Genius Second Horn

One of the bright selling points of electric cars is that they’re silent, but that’s also a potential safety hazard for pedestrians used to listening for the rumble of an internal combustion engine to know a car is coming. The problem is downright dangerous for those who are blind. Some...

Sep 13, 2025