The Electric Mini Cooper SE Is a Lot of Fun. But Is That Enough?

This new is a perfect example of what BMW’s trying to do with EVs today, and also unintentionally, the shortcomings of its approach. Formula E is more than just a new kind of racing. As motorsport director told me, the series is a chance to create a direct research and...

Apr 21, 2026

See The 2020 C8 Corvette's Nose Lift In Action

Among the many cool things about the , the is probably the coolest. Most sports cars need a nose lift feature. Here is the Corvette’s in action. As we’ve explained in the past, the new Corvette has a hydraulically-actuated front suspension lift system, which can supposedly raise the car’s ground...

Apr 21, 2026

The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Would Turn Sidewalks Into Cages If It Could

The challenges facing autonomous car companies are generally separated into two categories: getting the technology to work and getting society to accept the technology. And a recent New York Times article makes the case that the rest of society should make an awful lot of concessions to get out...

Apr 21, 2026

You Now Get Free Unlimited Supercharging With Your New Tesla Model S Or X (Again)

One of the big early selling points of the Tesla Model S was free, unlimited access to Tesla’s Supercharging network. After being before being axed entirely, free lifetime Supercharging is back for all new Tesla and orders. That’s according to from Tesla: It’s unclear if this is a limited-time...

Apr 21, 2026

Porsche Is Here To Assuage Your Climate Guilt

You want the speed and thrills of a Porsche 911, but you also don’t want your grandkids to be living in a climate refugee colony somewhere in the Scottish highlands. You want to tear up those winding mountain passes in your brand new Boxster, but you also very much...

Apr 21, 2026

Let's Be Realistic About The Hyundai Sonata Hybrid's Solar Roof

Yesterday Hyundai released a version of their Sonata Hybrid car , and along with it came a lot of exciting claims, like how it can recharge up to 60 percent of the car’s battery, and how it can provide enough power over the course of a year to let...

Apr 21, 2026

Knee Airbags Don't Do Shit: IIHS

Airbags are there to help make cars and driving safer by minimizing the amount of blunt-force trauma the human body absorbs in the event of a crash. They’re good and useful, but apparently not all airbags are as useful as they seem. Knee airbags are there to reduce leg...

Apr 21, 2026

Sure Hope You Like Swarms Of Wasps In Chevy Malibus

Just in case you’ve been going through your week and have, somehow, managed to avoid having any deep, gut-wrenching feelings of abject anxiety and horror to the degree where it feels like you just might terror-shit your pants, allow me to help you out by showing you some videos of...

Apr 21, 2026

The Trump Administration Killed A Driverless Car Committee Nobody Seemed To Have A Problem With

In the final days of the Obama administration, the Department of Transportation a committee to advise on the emerging technology of self-driving cars. For whatever reason, the Trump administration didn’t see the point. The committee included a number of prominent business leaders, politicians, and academics including GM Chairman and...

Apr 21, 2026

The War On Drive Thrus Has Begun

Drive thrus had their moment; namely, the 1950s, when there was apparently nothing better to eat than processed meat and partially gelatinated, nondairy, gum-based beverages lightly tossed to you out of a window. Thankfully, we as a society have moved past this terrible time and now have a plethora...

Apr 21, 2026

A Texas Startup Claims To Have Made The Biggest Advancements In Electric Motor Designs In Over A Century

Fundamentally, electric motors haven’t changed all that much since they were developed well over a century ago: they’re still electromechanically spinning rotors inside of stators. There a Texas startup, though, that claims to have developed the first real, substantive improvements in the basic design of an electric motor, and...

Apr 21, 2026

Here's One Way To Fix This Whole Semi-Autonomous Driving Thing

Recently, I was driving along Interstate 90 in central New York in a Nissan Altima equipped with the company’s driver assist technology, ProPilot. This section of I-90 was your typical long and straight rural interstate. The lanes were well-marked, the road was smoothly paved, traffic was light, and skies...

Apr 21, 2026

The Big Diesel Lie Grows While The Trump Administration Rolls Coal

Who can forget , the headline-grabbing, reputation-destroying pollution scandal of 2015? In which Volkswagen AG, one of the planet’s largest carmakers, was exposed for installing defeat devices on up to 11 million of its diesels to trick regulators around the world into thinking these cars complied with emissions standards when...

Apr 21, 2026

Watch This First Full Tear Down Of The 2020 Toyota Supra Engine

The Toyota Supra is one of those cars where the arcane alphanumeric droid-name of its best-known engine—the —is almost as well-known as the car itself. So when it was announced that the reborn Supra would have an inline-six engine developed by its partner BMW, that was a confusing development for...

Apr 21, 2026

Chevrolet Is Betting Its EV Future On This Electric Compact Crossover

As part of to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Chevrolet released these images of the Menlo model ahead of its official unveiling early next month. Menlo is the Chinese-market name for the Bolt-based electric compact crossover, which here in the U.S. market. To be quite honest,...

Apr 21, 2026