Is this 1964 Aston Martin DB5 the most famous movie car of all time? Maybe. [credit: Ted7/The Petersen Museum ] The sports car is as intrinsic to 007’s character as a vodka martini or that license to kill. At the start, long before James Bond went from page to screen, he drove a Blower Bentley, the equivalent […]
Enlarge (credit: David Butow | Getty Images) Tesla owes Owen Diaz $137 million after a jury found that the Black former worker was subjected to racial abuse that the electric vehicle company insufficiently addressed during his tenure. Diaz, an elevator operator at the company’s Fremont factory for nine months from 2015 to 2016, had been […]
Since we were in Nashville, we popped over to the Lane Motor Museum to say hello. The museum let us pose the Maverick next to some very big and very small trucks. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Ford provided flights to Nashville and two nights in a hotel so we could drive the Maverick trucks. Ars […]
Mazda is about to sell its first battery electric vehicle, the MX-30 crossover. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Mazda provided flights to Santa Ana and a night in a hotel so we could drive the MX-30. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. IRVINE, Calif. —It’s fair to say that Mazda has some work ahead of […]
Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco. (credit: Cruise) The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and around San Francisco. In May, both Waymo and Cruise applied to the Ca Department of Motor Vehicles for deployment permits (as opposed to […]
Enlarge / The $83,500 BMW iX is the brand’s new technology flagship. It’s a battery electric SUV with a range of more than 300 miles. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) BMW provided flights to Munich and seven nights in hotels so we could attend IAA Mobility and then later that week drive its two new electric cars, […]
This is the BrightDrop EV410, a new electric delivery commercial vehicle from General Motors. [credit: BrightDrop ] In January, General Motors created a new electric vehicle brand. It’s called BrightDrop, and like GM’s legacy brands that are electrifying, it, too, will use the company’s forthcoming Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive electric motors. Unlike the rest […]
ttkkt The Rivian R1T is the first electric pickup truck to reach the market. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Rivian provided flights to Denver and two nights in a hotel so we could drive the R1T up a mountain and back. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—Hats off to Rivian. Until 2018, almost […]
Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. (credit: Ford) On Monday, the Ford Motor Company announced a massive investment to build electric vehicles in Kentucky and Tennessee. Together with partner SK Innovation, it will invest $11.4 billion and create around 11,000 new jobs in the region building electric F-series pickup trucks […]
Enlarge (credit: SNCF) Every year, the Journées Européennes Patrimoine (European Heritage Days) weekend in September offers visitors a chance to visit numerous monuments all over Europe. Among the attractions in Paris this year was an orange-colored electric train with a name that has become a byword for speed and cutting-edge technology: the particular TGV. Thousands […]