Porsche Wants To Get In On The Mobility Movement

Porsche is probably the last company you’d synonymize with “mobility,” since it that the “Porsche sports car will be one of the last automobiles with a steering wheel” even after the world goes autonomous. But hey, , or wants to be—even Porsche. It’s the hot new thing. If you...

Apr 22, 2026

Door Handles Blamed For Driver's Death In Tesla Model S Fire: Lawsuit

A wrongful death lawsuit filed with the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida earlier this month alleges the motorized retractable door handles on the prevented the rescue of the driver as smoke and flames filled the cabin. Here’s more on the lawsuit, Awan v. Tesla Inc., 19-021110, from :...

Apr 22, 2026

This Nissan Leaf Prototype Has Two Electric Motors And 304 HP

has unveiled a new test car based on the Leaf e + that’s designed to try out the company’s newest four-wheel drive software. The whole purpose here is to provide a better, more efficient ride quality for the company’s influx of . By installing two high-output electric motors at...

Apr 22, 2026

If A Lunar Rover Were Built To Thrash It'd Probably Be This EV Ariel Nomad

Industrial supplier BorgWarner has picked the preposterously impractical Ariel Nomad to demo some of its new electric car propulsion tech. Obviously, the company has a sense of humor to balance out its pragmatism. The Nomad is you’re undoubtedly familiar with if you watch Top Gear or regularly read sites...

Apr 22, 2026

How Snap-Crackle-Pop Exhausts Actually Help (Or Hurt) A Car's Performance

That gasoline-gargling backfire exhaust sound some cars make decelerating, which can really only be described as “snap crackle popping,” has become pretty popular since motorheads almost unanimously got enamored with it in cars like the Ford Focus RS and Jaguar F-Type. But what’s really happening there, and does it...

Apr 22, 2026

New Study Seeks To Bring AVs To Uncharted Frontier: Rural Roads

All of the major autonomous vehicle companies–your Waymos and your Cruises and your Argos and your Ubers and your Voyages and your Pony.ais and a whole bunch of other companies you’ve probably never heard of—test in urban areas, interstates, and suburban-style roads. Few, if any, dedicate any time whatsoever...

Apr 22, 2026

This Is The First Gas Station To Convert To An EV-Charging Station In America

Part of what makes electric car ownership difficult is the lack of available charging infrastructure away from the home. People can feel trapped by an EV’s range if their destination isn’t close to a charging station. Overall, we need to grow the charging infrastructure, and one Maryland gas station...

Apr 22, 2026

Here's Why Rotodyne, The Vertical Takeoff Airliner, Failed

If a helicopter and an airplane had a little Einstein genius baby, that baby would be the Fairey Rotodyne, a passenger airliner that was said to be capable of vertical takeoff. It was supposed to be the hot new thing almost six decades ago—the way everyone would be getting...

Apr 22, 2026

Is Quattro Really The Best AWD System?

It’s going to be properly cold soon, and that nasty white stuff is going to start falling from the sky. There is a chance that you might want a vehicle with four driven wheels to help you accelerate away from a stop and maneuver through corners. This is the...

Apr 22, 2026

14-Year-Old Inventor Develops Clever Blind Spot Removal Tech

Alaina Gassler is the sort of kid that, were my parents have heard of her when I was growing up, would have caused an immediate and unflattering comparison between myself and her, with lots of glancing back and forth between me, on the floor losing at some Atari game,...

Apr 22, 2026

Most Model 3 Owners Feel Autopilot Makes Them Safer: Report

We here at Jalopnik and our sister sites have of Autopilot-bashing; or, more specifically, bashing the way Tesla promotes Autopilot as “Full Self-Driving” when it is most definitely not, to say nothing of the people who blatantly misuse the technology by falling asleep at the wheel and committing other...

Apr 22, 2026

The Coolest Thing I Saw At SEMA This Year Is Active Aero

SEMA is about more than just Supras with big wheels and roof-mounted tents on everything [“Overlanding is right now,” I overheard someone unironically say]. It’s supposed to be a trade show, you know, where you show your new product to other people in your trade. When it comes to...

Apr 22, 2026

Here's Another Alarming Video Reminding Us Tesla's Smart Summon Kinda Sucks

Almost immediately after it was released unto the world’s population of properly-equipped Teslas in September, Tesla’s Smart Summon feature, which allows a completely unpiloted car to drive to meet the owner via a smartphone app, people were reporting a lot of. Some were just annoying examples of a confused...

Apr 22, 2026

Let's Take A Moment To Appreciate The Simple Brilliance Of The Car Cassette Adapter

I got my driver’s license toward the end of the 2000s, but even I caught on with the car cassette adapter. All my friends had them because we drove cars that hadn’t completely eliminated the cassette deck quite yet. Thinking back, wasn’t this one the most brilliant and enduring...

Apr 22, 2026

How The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Repurposes Brake Parts For Front Axle Lift

Looking at a cutaway of the new shows us a lot about how engineers packaged many of the components, and one item that stands out is an aluminum block in the middle of the front crossmember. At first glance, it appears to be an ABS module, but all is not...

Apr 22, 2026