Here's How Every Tesla Performs In A Drag Race Against Each Other

We’ve seen just about every Tesla take on all sorts of cars, from other electric vehicles like the Porsche Taycan, to the best combustion engines have to offer with stuff like the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. But just how tight in performance is the entire range of Teslas against each...

Apr 22, 2026

The Porsche Taycan Turbo S 192-Mile Range Now Makes It The Least Efficient EV, Beating Itself

There were a lot of words spilled when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed the could only achieve an estimated range of just 201 miles, making it the least-efficient electric car on sale today. But it’s more powerful sibling, the , is even worse. The Porsche Taycan Turbo gets...

Apr 22, 2026

GM's Cruise Self-Driving Car Company Is Up To Something, But What?

GM’s Cruise self-driving car subsidiary is up to something. It completely wiped out its Instagram feed yesterday and replaced it with nine syncrhonized posts, each displaying a set of lat/long coordinates. Most of these locations correlate to something engineering related, but some of them are pure mysteries to me...

Apr 22, 2026

Demand From China Is Exploding The Price Of The Palladium In Your Catalytic Converter

Palladium is one of the many metals used in catalytic converters to quell and contain internal combustion engine emissions, and now it’s getting hellaciously expensive. The price of palladium has been increasing drastically over the last four years, but has ballooned 25% in the last two weeks, . In...

Apr 22, 2026

Cruise CTO Says Safety Reporting For Self-Driving Cars Is Broken

California requires all companies that test self-driving cars on public roads in the state to report miles driven and the number of “disengagements,” or times a human driver takes over control. Cruise co-founder and CTO Kyle Vogt believes this reporting method is a poor metric for comparing companies, and...

Apr 22, 2026

Bridgestone Says Airless Tires Are Coming Soon To Bicycles And Big Rigs

Japanese tire giant Bridgestone is hoping to beat Michelin’s so-called Tweel to the airless tire market with a new model launching soon for semi trucks, . Bridgestone’s airless tires use a web of recycled thermoplastic instead of pneumatic pressure to keep a vehicle rolling. These new tires have been...

Apr 22, 2026

The 2020 Cruise Origin: Going 'Beyond The Car' Means Self-Driving Shuttle Buses

Tuesday evening in San Francisco, California, GM’s Cruise autonomous car division unveiled the Origin self-driving mini bus. It has teased for weeks that this thing will be a move “beyond the car” and we’ve heard from sources within Cruise that there are plans to build between 50,000 and 100,000...

Apr 22, 2026

The Cruise Origin Is An Expected Step In Autonomous Vehicles But There Are Many Unanswered Questions

, the autonomous vehicle startup owned by a big bank and GM, along with help from Honda, seems to have a gift for hyperbole. In a tweet, the company suggested that they were aiming for their new autonomous shared ride van to have the same sort of impact as...

Apr 22, 2026

Suzuki Will Pull The Jimny From Europe For Failing To Meet 2021 Emissions Regs

Everyone’s favorite forbidden fruit cute-ute, the Suzuki Jimny, was given a fourth-generation platform in 2018, and it is already headed for death in the European and UK markets for being too heavy on its CO2 emissions. New regulations rolling out at the end of this year mean that the...

Apr 22, 2026

Autonomous Cars Should Be Half As Wide As Normal Cars

Imagine if half of the cars in traffic were gone. Imagine your glorious morning commute, zipping along at 70mph in what used to be gridlock traffic. You look out the window immediately to your left and see something you’ve never seen on your commute before: the scenery rolling past...

Apr 22, 2026

Maserati Begins Testing Of All-Electric Powertrain For The Next GranTurismo

After the recent merger between FCA and PSA, it was announced that electrification would be a of Maserati by 2023. Now the brand has announced that it has begun testing an all-electric powertrain that will go in the next GranTurismo and its convertible version, the GranCabrio. The video released...

Apr 22, 2026

GM's Cruise Isn't Short On Bluster

GM’s autonomous unit Cruise , a supposedly autonomous van-like, steering-wheel-less, fully-electric thing, which Cruise would be as big of an innovation as the compass, trains, light bulbs, the radio, the internet, or cell phones. This week, Cruise is dialing the bluster back a little bit, saying that it’ll only...

Apr 22, 2026

The Volkswagen Type 3 Was In One Important Way The First Genuinely Modern Car

The Volkswagen Type 3 was Volkswagen’s first real attempt to build a car a bit more up-market than the Beetle, and while it never sold in the incredible numbers that Beetles did, was still a mild success. It’s also interesting in that, in one really important way, you could...

Apr 22, 2026

Cadillac Is Finally Putting Super Cruise In Cars People Want To Buy

Since its launch in 2017, General Motors’ semi-autonomous driver assist system, has only been found in one car, the sedan. But now it’s 2020, the , Super Cruise has undergone some improvements, and Cadillac is finally ready to roll it out on other models. Super Cruise has now been...

Apr 22, 2026

Elon Musk: Full Self Driving May Be ‘Feature Complete’ But That ‘Doesn’t Mean Features Are Working Well’

During Tesla’s earnings call Wednesday evening Elon Musk mentioned that Full Self Driving tech is probably going to be released by the end of this year, and that the company may allow certain customers early access to a “feature complete” version of the software. Musk went on to clarify...

Apr 22, 2026