My iPhone Wallet stores theater and transit tickets and all of my credit and debit cards, and it lets me sashay like a boss through my gym’s turnstile.…
Read more Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?You’ve seen the headlines: This battery breakthrough is going to change the electric vehicle forever. And then … silence. You head to the local showroom, and the cars…
Read more The EV Battery Tech That’s Worth the Hype, According to ExpertsThe issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features…
Read more New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It SoundsA 1.9-kWh lithium-ion battery has been packaged within the car’s already beefy central tunnel, and additional cooling has been added to manage battery temperature. There’s also new software…
Read more The Corvette E-Ray Is Dynamically Up There With the BestPalermo says the sound can be reduced when cruising, then amplified during more dynamic driving. Allegedly, it’s even possible to sense when a rear wheel breaks traction, since…
Read more Ferrari Reveals Its Electric Powerhouse, and What Could Finally Be Real EV SoundA rough year for electric vehicle adoption just got a little rougher for owners in some parts of the US. Starting next month, EVs will no longer be…
Read more The Free Ride for EVs in the Carpool Lane Is Coming to an EndCar companies love a mission statement. With the arrival of the Concept C, Audi’s new one is crystal clear: “radical simplicity”. An all-electric two-seater with a retractable folding…
Read more The Concept C Is the All-Electric Sports Car Kickstarting Audi’s Design FutureEREVs have some manufacturing advantages, too, says Steven Ewing, who directs editorial content at Edmunds. Specifics on Scout production are scant, but at least the Ramcharger is using…
Read more Automakers Are Hot for Extended-Range EVs. They Hope Buyers Like Them TooCredit where it’s due, former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn—the man who was later smuggled out of Japan in a double bass case—was quick to identify electrification as the…
Read more The Renault 5 EV Is an Instant SmashAnd the W1 needs one to do its best work. Even in a world in which the new breed of electric hypercar has rewired expectations, this is a…
Read more McLaren’s $2.6M W1 Supercar Wouldn’t Seem Out of Place in Formula 1It should not be so exciting to eat a breakfast quesadilla in your car. But this quesadilla was from Wawa, this Wawa hosted a Tesla Supercharger, and this…
Read more I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer“I think you can envision this playing out pretty well for BYD, actually,” says Ilaria Mazzocco, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And…
Read more Europe Votes to Slap China-Made EVs With Tariffs—but Tesla Gets Off EasyThe dual-sport Origin has a city range of 90 miles and a combined range of 70 miles. Riding flat out at average speeds above 55 mph, I saw…
Read more First Ride: Can-Am Pulse Electric MotorcycleAfter officially hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports earlier this month, the US government is getting even more serious about keeping China-made autos out of the country.…
Read more Proposed Ban Would Be a ‘Death Sentence’ for Chinese EVs in the USLast month, a Mercedes Benz EQE 350 electric vehicle caught fire in a South Korean apartment building’s underground parking garage. Reportedly, 23 people were sent to the hospital…
Read more The Auto Industry Finally Has a Plan to Stop Electric Vehicle FiresThe all-electric sibling of Volvo has a new CEO, new models landing, and a new plant in South Carolina—but will this be enough to stop the EV brand’s…
Read more How Do You Solve a Problem Like Polestar?This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. China has positioned itself as the main car supplier in Mexico, with exports reaching…
Read more China Conquers Mexico’s Automotive Market, and the US Is WorriedLithium-ion battery fires can be intense and frightening. As someone who used to repair second-hand smartphones, I’ve extinguished my fair share of flaming iPhones with punctured lithium-ion batteries.…
Read more How Electric-Vehicle Battery Fires Happen—and How You Should ReactIt’s also nice to use a car with modern amenities like lane guidance and auto braking when it detects a pedestrian. Heck, even having a reversing camera is…
Read more What the Electric Fiat 500e Is Like—From a Fiat 500 OwnerThis is a new issue for the automotive industry. “One of the beautiful things about automotive has been that it tends to move much more slowly than consumer…
Read more Cars Are Now Rolling Computers, So How Long Will They Get Updates? Automakers Can’t Say
