Enlarge / Tesla is issuing a recall more than phantom collision warnings and brake activations. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla) Tesla’s controversial “Full Self-Driving” feature took another hit on Tuesday. The Texan automaker issued a recall for nearly 12, 000 vehicles after an over-the-air software update introduced a new bug that can cause false activations […]
Enlarge / The state of ALL OF US charging infrastructure might seem dire, depending on where you live. (credit: Getty Images) The United States passed an important electric vehicle milestone earlier this year. At some point during the first three months of 2021, the country installed its 100, 000th EV charger. That’s according to the […]
Enlarge / Anecdotally, I have never seen as much lawless driving as I have in the past year. (credit: Getty Images) The United States registered its greatest-ever six-month rise in traffic deaths for the first half of 2021. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just published its early estimate for the months of January-June […]
Enlarge / The first BMW M5 to ever receive the CS treatment is a seriously potent sports sedan, but that performance comes with some notable compromises. (credit: Bradley Iger) Although today’s M5 is a far cry from the hot-rodded E28 that BMW introduced in 1984, the particular company has followed a common ethos with the […]
Enlarge / Light’s depth perception relies on trigonometry and allows it to measure the distance to each pixel out to 1,000 m. (credit: Light) So far, almost every autonomous vehicle we’ve encountered uses lidar to determine how far away things are, just as the winners of the DARPA Grand Challenges did back in the early 2000s. […]
Enlarge / The front view of Tesla’s new Model 3 car on display is seen on Friday, January 26, 2018, at the Tesla store in Washington, DC. (credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images ) Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software lived up to its “beta” label this weekend. On Saturday morning, CEO Elon Musk announced […]
Enlarge (credit: Hertz) Car rentals will be going greener, at least at Hertz, which will purchase 100,000 Tesla Model 3 electric sedans over the next 14 months. The rental car company announced the move Monday morning, saying that over 20 percent of its rental fleet will consist of BEVs by the end of 2022. To […]
Enlarge / Bernd Mayländer stands next to the Formula 1 safety car, a Mercedes-AMG GT R. The station wagon in the background is the F1 medical car. (credit: Mercedes-AMG) Despite having followed Formula 1 closely for several decades, I still don’t feel comfortable making predictions about the races. Take the recent Turkish Grand Prix, for […]
Enlarge / A Tesla factory. (credit: Getty Images) Tesla made a profit of $1.6 billion in the third quarter of 2021. It built 237,823 cars and delivered 241,391 cars in the process, ending Q3 with $1.3 billion in free cash flow and $16 billion in cash and cash equivalents. Impressively, these record results happened despite […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images ) The problem of what to do with old batteries is bound to come up in most any discussion about the pros and cons of electric cars. Most people’s first preference is to reuse them , repurposing the cells for a second life as stationary storage. But at […]