This is the 2021 Honda Accord Hybrid, a 48 mpg sedan (unless, like here, it’s in Touring trim, in which case it’s a 44 mpg sedan thanks to bigger wheels and tires). [credit: Honda ] Back in 2018, I tried out the 10th-generation Honda Accord and came away impressed. Sedans might have lost their allure […]
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Kienzle / AFP / Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency will be issuing revised fuel economy standards by the end of July, said new EPA Administrator Michael Regan, rewriting Trump-era limits that dictate emissions limits for cars and light trucks through the 2026 model year. The goal with the revised standards, he […]
Enlarge / By 2030, Polestar wants to build truly carbon-neutral cars. (credit: Polestar) The Swedish electric vehicle startup Polestar says it wants to build truly carbon-neutral vehicles within the next decade. Announced on Wednesday as part of the company’s first sustainability report, the ambitious goal will require new car-building methods because, in the words of […]
The Odyssey 21 of Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky and Jenson Button, who are driving for the JBXE Extreme-E Team. Button is not the only F1 world champion to enter a team in Extreme E, but he is the only one to also strap in as a driver. [credit: Extreme E ] Traveling to threatened environments in order […]
The reborn GMC Hummer EV truck is getting a sibling—this one is an SUV. [credit: GMC ] Last fall, after a long teaser campaign that included a high-profile Super Bowl commercial, GMC unveiled its new Hummer EV truck. Designed around General Motor’s forthcoming 800-volt Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive electric motors, it will lead GM’s […]
Enlarge / Waymo CEO John Krafcik in 2017. (credit: Misha Friedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) John Krafcik, the former auto industry exec who took over Google’s self-driving car project in 2015, is stepping down as CEO of Waymo. Waymo, which spun off as a separate Alphabet subsidiary in 2016, accomplished a lot during Krafcik’s five-and-a-half-year tenure. […]
Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in Silicon Valley in 2019. (credit: Sundry Photography / Getty) A police report obtained by the Phoenix New Times this week reveals a minor Waymo-related crash that occurred last October but hadn’t been publicly reported until now. Here’s how the New Times describes the incident: A white Waymo minivan […]
Doctor Johanna Xu with a newly manufactured structural battery cell in Chalmers’ composite lab, which she shows to professor Leif Asp. [credit: Marcus Folino ] Over the next few years, the batteries that go into electric vehicles are going to get cheap enough that an EV should cost no more than an equivalent-sized vehicle with […]
Mercedes-AMG has been developing this Project One hypercar—which uses the same powertrain as its all-conquering F1 cars—for a few years now. It’s not quite ready yet, but the hybrid system is about to appear on some other Mercedes-AMG road cars. [credit: Mercedes-AMG ] This week should have seen the start of the New York International […]
Enlarge / Porsche is working on synthetic fuels and will begin testing them in racing as early as next year. (credit: Porsche) In the grand scheme of things, the fuel used by racing cars on track amounts to a mere rounding error compared to the carbon dioxide emitted by all the spectators driving to watch […]