News

“You Don’t Need a Huge Car Collection Like Jay Leno To Be Impacted By This Bill”: SEMA CEO Discusses Leno’s Law and Bill 1069 Passing in California, and What It Means For Car Culture

Olivia Richman · Sep 17, 2026

News

GM is Finally Solving the Biggest Problem With its EVs

Dave McQuilling · Sep 17, 2026

Energy

A 128-megawatt battery next to 470,000 solar panels outside an Air Force base in Georgia now stores their daytime power for cold winter mornings, and nine more batteries are approved that add up to over 3,000 megawatts

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026

Energy

A solar cell built to see only the blue and green light left 33 feet underwater turned 34.7% of it into electricity in the lab, against 17% in full sun, and panels built the same way charged a drone’s batteries at that depth in open sea

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026

Energy

While most of its fuel details are blacked out, a mile-deep Kansas reactor’s newly public safety file spells out its worst case: every fuel rod bursts, and a worker 328 feet away still takes under 5 rem

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026

Energy

Two 340-megawatt small nuclear reactors on the Lake Michigan shore can start as a hole: regulators let the builder wall off the pit with concrete before any permit, and the walls stay buried for good

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026

Energy

A reactor core went critical at 1,225 degrees on the old Nevada nuclear test site 10 days after doing it cold, and reached 1,852 degrees in a test that set a temperature record there

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026

News

“You Don’t Need a Huge Car Collection Like Jay Leno To Be Impacted By This Bill”: SEMA CEO Discusses Leno’s Law and Bill 1069 Passing in California, and What It Means For Car Culture

Olivia Richman · Sep 17, 2026 8:00pm ET

A dash with GM's new infotainment menu on the screens

News

GM is Finally Solving the Biggest Problem With its EVs

Dave McQuilling · Sep 17, 2026 6:30pm ET

News

Costco Is Putting a Cap On Its (Now Expensive) Motor Oil. Unfortunately, This Was Predicted a While Ago and Nothing Could Be Done. Get Ready to Fight Over Motor Oil in the Aisles

Olivia Richman · Sep 15, 2026 7:00pm ET

News

President Donald Trump is Now “Okay” with Chinese Automakers Coming to the U.S., But Brands Like Ford Are Begging Him Not To, Which is Quite Ironic

Olivia Richman · Sep 14, 2026 8:00pm ET

News

Not the 4Runner, Not the Tacoma: This Toyota SUV Has a 39.1% Chance of Hitting 250,000 Miles, Eight Times the Average Car, and Toyota and Lexus Take the Top Nine Spots

Olivia Richman · Sep 14, 2026 6:30pm ET

Cars

Cars

Every Plumber in Europe Can Buy a Small Work Van. America Killed All Three of Its Own, and Now Ram Is Bringing One Back as a Rebadged Fiat

Olivia Richman · Sep 1, 2026 7:00pm ET

Cars

An electric three-wheeler with a height-adjustable body that wades flooded streets and can be dressed as a police van is heading for Asia and Africa, and the smallest new car an American can buy is a 143-inch Italian hatchback

Olivia Richman · Aug 28, 2026 8:00pm ET

A Toyota Hilux Champ being loaded on the street

Cars

Toyota sells a truck for $12,500. But you can’t have one in the US

Dave McQuilling · Aug 17, 2026 7:30pm ET

Cars

Ford and Slate are both selling a cheap, ugly electric pickup, and the choice comes down to whether you’d rather pay $3,545 more for the one nobody has been allowed to photograph or take the one that shows up without paint

Olivia Richman · Aug 7, 2026 7:00pm ET

Cars

A 3,000-pound Chinese electric sports car makes 430 horsepower from a 60-kWh battery, hits 60 in about three seconds and sells at home for $34,000, and it is going to Britain rather than America

Olivia Richman · Aug 3, 2026 6:30pm ET

Energy

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Energy

A 128-megawatt battery next to 470,000 solar panels outside an Air Force base in Georgia now stores their daytime power for cold winter mornings, and nine more batteries are approved that add up to over 3,000 megawatts

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 5:00pm ET

Energy

A solar cell built to see only the blue and green light left 33 feet underwater turned 34.7% of it into electricity in the lab, against 17% in full sun, and panels built the same way charged a drone’s batteries at that depth in open sea

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 3:30pm ET

Energy

While most of its fuel details are blacked out, a mile-deep Kansas reactor’s newly public safety file spells out its worst case: every fuel rod bursts, and a worker 328 feet away still takes under 5 rem

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 2:00pm ET

Holtec Palisades SMR-300 Pioneer site Covert Michigan

Energy

Two 340-megawatt small nuclear reactors on the Lake Michigan shore can start as a hole: regulators let the builder wall off the pit with concrete before any permit, and the walls stay buried for good

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 12:30pm ET

Westinghouse eVinci microreactor NCERC Nevada test

Energy

A reactor core went critical at 1,225 degrees on the old Nevada nuclear test site 10 days after doing it cold, and reached 1,852 degrees in a test that set a temperature record there

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 11:00am ET

Military

Military

A German drone submarine 13.8 feet long and 882 pounds is built to fit a standard torpedo tube, swim four days on a 42-kWh battery and sit on the seabed listening for weeks, rated for the same 19,685 feet as the three-ton American one Iran hauled in

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 17, 2026 9:30am ET

Military

A German drone with an 8-foot manta-ray wingspan flaps over real defused bombs on a Baltic test range and picks up metal buried 20 inches in the mud, while 1.8 million tons of war munitions rust off Germany

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 16, 2026 5:00pm ET

Royal Navy Rattler USV SYOS Aerospace Portsmouth

Military

A 24-foot British navy drone boat put a gouge in the stern of a 55-foot racing yacht inside Portsmouth Harbour, and seven of them still run there day and night, driven from a control room on shore under a rule that says keep 650 feet clear where possible

Luis Reyes · Sep 14, 2026 5:00pm ET

Military

A 26-foot Turkish drone boat that carries 551 pounds of explosive in its bow and hits by ramming went into the water for the first time at a naval yard on the Sea of Marmara, does 50 knots on a gasoline waterjet, and 40 of them are already on order

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 14, 2026 2:00pm ET

Military

A 23-foot Ukrainian drone boat with a .50-caliber machine gun on a Norwegian remote mount ran down a Russian drone boat in the Black Sea, shot its antennas off from 3,300 feet so nobody could steer it clear, then sank it at close range, the first drone boat killed by another

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 14, 2026 6:30am ET

EVs

Front view of A Rivian R2 on a mountain top

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Here are the EVs I’d Get If Gas Prices Kept Going Up As Someone Who Sorta Hates EVs

Olivia Richman · Sep 16, 2026 6:30pm ET

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Tesla Fans are Mind-Blown About Tesla Insurance’s New FSD Discount, But It’s Not Even That Great Compared to Competitors. And Should We Really Be Promoting 95% FSD Usage?

Olivia Richman · Sep 15, 2026 6:00pm ET

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

The United States Already Can’t Have Any Cool EVs From China, Now We Can’t Get Polestar’s New Lineup. After Seeing the Formula 2030 Concept Car, You May Cry Yourself to Work Inside Your Tesla

Olivia Richman · Sep 9, 2026 6:00pm ET

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

The Internet Says Cybertruck Owners Are Being Told Their Trucks Are Worthless. Two of the Videos Look Like Dealership Skits, and the Real Number Is Ordinary

Olivia Richman · Sep 7, 2026 6:30pm ET

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

The Electric Range Rover Reacts to a Slipping Wheel in 50 Milliseconds. That’s 100 Times Quicker Than the Gas One, and It’s Why This Might Be the Better Off-Roader

Olivia Richman · Sep 2, 2026 6:30pm ET

Industry

MBARI Octopus Garden Davidson Seamount pearl octopus

Industry

A 12-foot robot swept a laser 10 feet over the largest known octopus nursery, 10,500 feet down off California, where warm springs hatch the eggs in under two years instead of five to eight

Luis Reyes · Sep 17, 2026 8:00am ET

ShinMaywa XU-MII unmanned flying boat JAMSTEC

Industry

A 220-pound underwater drone held itself steady near the bottom off Japan and sent its seabed pictures by sound to a pilotless seaplane that had landed itself on the water, over a link slower than dial-up

Luis Reyes · Sep 16, 2026 11:00am ET

Industry

A 660-ton excavator moved 22.2 million cubic yards out of an Australian coal mine in a year, four times what it took to dig Hoover Dam, in 6,840 hours of work

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 16, 2026 8:00am ET

Ward & Burke microtunneling Welland Canal Port Colborne

Industry

A 5-foot tunnel bored 1,017 feet through bedrock under the canal that lets freighters skip Niagara Falls broke through in 33 days, with ships passing 65 feet above the crew, and the same machine is now cutting a second one

Luis Reyes · Sep 15, 2026 5:00pm ET

Industry

A 2,491-pound Irish underwater drone spent 18 days hunting hydrothermal vents in the Greenland Sea through a 3,000-volt cable from a research ship, and the whole rig weighs 22 tons

Chema Bonilla Díaz · Sep 15, 2026 2:00pm ET

Hybrids

Hybrids

The German yard that just won Canada’s biggest-ever defence deal for up to 12 crewed submarines has a stranger boat still dry in the shed — an 82-foot crewless one stacked from shipping containers, built around the box instead of to fit inside it, and running on hydrogen

Luis Reyes · Jul 18, 2026

Hybrids

“Every hybrid we’ve ever owned, lied to us”: Edmunds reveals the reality of EPA rated mpg and it’s not pretty

Olivia Richman · Jun 14, 2026

Hybrids

This Toyota Has 340 Horsepower, Hybrid Efficiency, and Every Premium Feature You’d Expect — and No One Is Buying It

Dave McQuilling · May 9, 2026

Hybrids

It’s an Outback, It’s a Forester… No, It’s the New Toyota RAV4 Revealed at the Auto China Show

Olivia Richman · Apr 24, 2026

Hybrids

Audi Has Spent Years Losing the Performance SUV War to BMW. New Spy Shots From the Nürburgring Suggest That’s About to Change

Dave McQuilling · Apr 15, 2026

Hybrids

The Prius is selling so poorly, it could leave the United States market — and Toyota doesn’t really mind

Olivia Richman · Apr 11, 2026

Performance

Performance & Luxury

A British Carmaker Fitted Anti-Lock Brakes to a Road Car in 1966 and All-Wheel Drive 14 Years Before the AMC Eagle. Then It Went Bust, and It Just Came Back With 940 Horsepower

Dave McQuilling · Sep 7, 2026 8:00pm ET

Performance & Luxury

Honda has paused the Civic Si four times now, the last one in July alongside the Integra A-Spec, and the executive who runs its American sales told a press panel the manual audience will probably keep shrinking, and that both cars are coming back anyway

Olivia Richman · Aug 27, 2026 6:00pm ET

Performance & Luxury

Somebody threw stones at the only Koenigsegg Gemera in Denmark while it sat outside a Copenhagen hotel with doormen on the street all night, smashing windows, doors and mirrors on a four-seat hypercar its owner had taken delivery of about a week earlier

Olivia Richman · Aug 27, 2026 4:55am ET

Performance & Luxury

Porsche built three development cars, ran crash and airbag simulations, put 1,000 kilometers on the Nordschleife under seven minutes a lap and wind-tunnel tested a rear wing to 150,000 km of wear, all for one slant-nose 911 that already had an owner before it existed

Olivia Richman · Aug 24, 2026 7:00pm ET

hennessey blackbird at monterey car week

Performance & Luxury

A $2.5 million American hypercar just sold out 71 cars in four hours at The Quail, a naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8 and a gated six-speed with no screens — Hennessey starts building them in 2029, and the engine is still in development

Olivia Richman · Aug 20, 2026 7:30pm ET

Reviews & Guides

A front 3/4 view of of a gold 2026 Kia K4

Reviews

Kia K4 Review: Is This Stylish Hatchback the Best You Can Get For Under $30,000?

Dave McQuilling · Sep 15, 2026 8:00pm ET

Guides

I Took a Manual Through the Lincoln Tunnel and Hit Traffic. Forty Minutes Later My Left Foot Was Wrecked and I Stopped Telling People to Learn Stick

Dave McQuilling · Sep 3, 2026 6:00pm ET

The eye shaped driver monitoring system disabled light on a Subaru driver's display

Guides

How to disable the driver monitoring system in a 2026 Subaru WRX

Dave McQuilling · Aug 12, 2026 6:30pm ET

A red Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing in a parking lot

Guides

Cadillac’s $140,000 Blackwing keeps its best performance feature locked behind a $25 SD card, the format laptops dropped years ago, and it records nothing until you go buy one

Dave McQuilling · Jul 29, 2026 8:00pm ET

An interior shot of the dash of a the 2027 Kia Telluride

Guides

Wildfire smoke has DC, Boston and New York under air quality warnings, and the cleanest air you can find might be inside your car, depending on one cheap part behind the glovebox most drivers have never checked

Dave McQuilling · Jul 27, 2026 6:30pm ET

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