Watch: A Tesla Floated Away in New Haven’s Flash Flood. The Real Warning Comes Weeks Later.
Weight is supposed to be an advantage in bad weather. More mass generally means more...
Electric Cars
The Motorcycle Industry Just Found a $3.3 Billion Business That Isn’t Selling Motorcycles
The motorcycle you buy in a few years may have less to tell you about...
Tesla Declared Its Driverless Cybercab Street-Legal. Washington Just Opened the Books to Check.
No federal inspector ever climbed inside Tesla’s Cybercab and signed off on it before it...
Volkswagen’s New Record Car Runs on an ID. Polo Motor. The Real Target Was the Battery.
The most expensive component in an affordable electric car is not the motor, the software...
Tesla Just Set Up Shop in Vietnam. The Country’s Biggest Charging Network Won’t Let It Plug In.
Vietnam has spent the past eighteen months assembling one of the most generous electric-vehicle tax...
Honda’s Rare-Earth-Free Magnet Bet Is Real. It’s Also the Smallest Check on the Table.
Honda did not just invest in a magnet company this month. It joined a line...
Tesla Signed Its Own Permission Slip for the Pedal-Free Cybercab. Regulators Just Asked to See It.
A driverless Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel and no brake pedal has been picking...
Porsche Blamed Your Charging Habits for Killing the Taycan’s Battery. Ten Months Later, It Blamed a Supplier Instead.
A judge refused to send the Taycan battery case to arbitration. The more revealing record is Porsche’s own recall filings,…
Gas Prices Jumped 31.8%. The Electric Sedan Still Lost the Math by $3,080.
AAA put the cost to own a new car at $12,863 a year. The category tables say fuel efficiency is…
Volkswagen Built the World’s Most Efficient EV Out of Hatchback Parts, Then Explained Why You’ll Never Own One
Volkswagen set a 0.158 drag record with ID. Polo hardware and found 40 percent more efficiency without a bigger battery.…
China Set a Real Deadline for Self-Driving Cars. America’s Still Handing Out Permission Slips One at a Time.
Nine Chinese ministries just set a 2030 deadline for autonomous vehicles, backed by a mandatory safety standard. Ten weeks earlier,…
Congress Couldn’t Kill This 2013 Rule, So the EPA Just Sent It Back for Round Two
The Congressional Review Act gives Congress 60 days to kill a rule. The EPA reopened that window on waivers from…
Tesla Has 80,000 Superchargers and Still Doesn’t Have the Ones Its Own Robotaxis Need
Tesla’s Supercharger network was sized around how people charge. A driverless fleet does not behave like a person — and…
Hyundai’s Georgia-Built Waymo Robotaxi Isn’t a Patriotism Story. It’s a Compliance Deadline.
The first IONIQ 5 robotaxis arrive in the fourth quarter. A Commerce Department rule makes Chinese-origin driving software unsellable from…