Enlarge (credit: Sjo / Getty) Last Saturday, two men died when a Tesla Model S crashed into a tree in a residential neighborhood. Authorities said they found no one in the driver’s seat—one man was in the front passenger seat, while the other was in the back. That led to speculation that the car might […]
This is the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, a new electric SUV. [credit: Cadillac ] On Wednesday, Cadillac formally revealed the production version of its next SUV. Called the Lyriq, when it goes on sale next year starting at $59,990, it will join the Hummer EV as part of General Motors’ third wave of electric vehicles (after […]
The Volkswagen ID.4 has won 2021’s World Car of the Year award. [credit: Volkswagen ] The real measure of success for Volkswagen’s embrace of electric vehicles (EV) post-dieselgate will be how many the company can sell each year. But on Tuesday, VW’s job might have gotten a little easier. That’s because the new ID.4 crossover […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) In the grand scheme of things, I have little to complain about in terms of the pandemic. I haven’t lost my job, my residence, or any of my family, and since my wife and I both worked at home already, there wasn’t even an office to stop commuting to. The biggest […]
Enlarge (credit: felixmizioznikov / Getty) Tesla CEO Elon Musk is fighting back against speculation that a deadly Tesla crash in the Houston area on Saturday might have occurred while Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance software was active. “Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled,” Musk tweeted on Monday afternoon. The vehicle was totaled, so it’s […]
Enlarge (credit: Sundry Photography / Getty) A 2019 Tesla Model S has crashed in a fiery blaze in the Woodlands, an area north of Houston. The crash, which happened on Saturday around 11:25 pm local time, killed two people inside. “Our preliminary investigation is determining—but it’s not complete yet—that there was no one at the […]
Enlarge (credit: Emanuel M Schwermer) The self-driving technology industry is in a strange state right now. A number of companies have been pouring millions of dollars into self-driving technology for years, and many of them have prototype self-driving vehicles that seem to work. Yet I know of only one company—Waymo—that has launched a fully driverless […]
This is Audi’s all-electric A6 e-tron concept. [credit: Audi ] It has been a bumper few days for new electric vehicle reveals. Traditionally the time of the New York International Auto Show, last week saw new battery EVs from Audi, Mazda, and Mercedes-EQ. This coming week, the Shanghai Auto Show will take place in corporeal […]
Mercedes-Benz’s mighty S-Class sedan is regularly ranked as the world’s best luxury car. Now it has an electric alternative, called the EQS. [credit: Mercedes-EQ ] You can tell there should have been an international auto show this week by the flurry of new car announcements. These announcements have already included new battery electric vehicles from […]
Enlarge / Chris Urmson speaks onstage during the 2019 SXSW Conference on March 9, 2019 in Austin. (credit: Samantha Burkardt/Getty Images for SXSW) Few people have been working on self-driving cars longer than Chris Urmson. Urmson played a key role on Carnegie Mellon’s team in all three of DARPA’s famous Grand Challenges between 2004 and […]