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Buy This Three-Wheel, RWD Chevrolet Citation Frankenstein for Just $4,950
Sep 17, 2019 10:00 AM
McLaren 720S Goes Flying Off Mulholland Drive in California, Lands on Steep Slope
Sep 17, 2019 9:19 AM
Dealership Promotes '90s-Themed 2019 Ram 1500 With Hilarious Throwback Ad
Sep 17, 2019 8:45 AM
Ferrari 'Purosangue' Crossover Could Use Hybrid V-6, Twin-Turbo V-8, or NA V-12: Report
Sep 16, 2019 3:25 PM
California Wants You to Turn in Your Gas-Guzzlers for E-Bicycles 
Sep 16, 2019 2:43 PM
Hyundai Isn't Ruling Out 'N' Pickup Truck to Fight Ford Ranger Raptor: Report
Sep 16, 2019 2:15 PM
GM Will Build Upcoming Electric Pickup Truck in Detroit, Batteries at Brand-New Factory in Ohio
Sep 16, 2019 12:55 PM
Behold the 165-HP Fiat 500 Abarth 595 Pista We Won't Be Getting in the US
Sep 16, 2019 11:42 AM
Nearly 50,000 Workers Walk Out Nationwide as UAW Strikes Against General Motors
Sep 16, 2019 10:33 AM
Google Earth Image Reveals Missing Man's Car 22 Years After Both Vanished
Sep 16, 2019 9:09 AM
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By Bertel Schmitt Sep 17, 2019

Tuesday Tech News Roundup: R.I3.P., Ford-VW-EV, and More

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 16, 2019

Monday Tech News Roundup: Flying Taxis, Short-Term Battery Prices, EV Architecture

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 13, 2019

Friday Tech News Roundup: Tesla Batteries in Toyotas, More

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 12, 2019

Thursday Tech News Roundup: Porsche Rakes It In, and More

  Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 11, 2019

Wednesday Tech News Roundup: China's EVs Crumbling, Frankfurt Full of Them

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 9, 2019

Monday Tech News Roundup: Flying Taxis, Autonomous Trucks, Ambitious Chinese Goals, More

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 6, 2019

Friday Tech News Roundup: Tesla's Turbo Trolling, GigEU Factory, EVs for the 60%, and More

Your daily automotive technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 5, 2019

Thursday Tech News Roundup: $8,500 EVs, Chinese Batteries in Porsches, and a New Toyota Platform

Your daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a robot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Sep 4, 2019

Wednesday Tech News Roundup: Next-Gen Lithium, Porsche's EV, Undead Tom-Tom, and Hybrid UPS

Our daily mobility technology news roundup, collected by a bot under safety driver supervision.
By Bertel Schmitt Aug 30, 2019

Hurricane Dorian Reminds Us: Why Can’t We Use Electric Vehicles as a Back-Up Battery?

It's possible in Japan thanks to Nissan’s V2H system. But why not everywhere?
By Bertel Schmitt Aug 21, 2019

Yamaha and Sony Build the Golf Cart Toyota Won't

Vehicle sets new and hard-to-reach benchmarks for in- and on-car LCD displays.
By Bertel Schmitt Aug 9, 2019

Renesas and MobilEye Provide the Brains of Nissan’s Hands-Free ProPilot 2.0 ADAS

Automotive-centric SOCs  power the system.
By Bertel Schmitt Aug 3, 2019

The 50-Year-Old Toyota Sport 800 Is Still a Master Class in Fuel-Efficient Fun

Decades later, the Toyota Sports 800 still shows how light, simple, and smart wins the day.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 23, 2019

Top OTA Expert Shows How State Actors Hack into Your Car and What Happens Next: ‘People Will Die’

“Updates are an attack vector nation-state actors particularly like, because they are very hard to defend against.”
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 19, 2019

Toyota Adds Oomph to its BEV-Push, Joins-Up with China’s BYD

Tighter regulations turned BEV-doubter Toyota into a BEVemoth.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 18, 2019

Toyota Presents Last Mile Mobility Solution for the Summer Olympics, and No, It Doesn’t Have Lidar. Far from It

Toyota’s Olympic people-mover is made to just work.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 16, 2019

How to Get Around the Moon in Style and Comfort

Pressurized moon rover will be built by Toyota.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 15, 2019

In the New Nissan Skyline, You Can Take Your Hands off the Wheel Without Getting Arrested

Nissan will even supply the bandwidth for texting while driving.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 10, 2019

Toyota Moves into Silicon

JV with DENSO will bake TRI-AD-developed technology into Toyota’s own chips.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 5, 2019

China Switches Over to Hydrogen Fuel Cells, and Toyota Delivers the Tech

Japanese fuel cell components go into growing numbers of Chinese buses.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 4, 2019

Suddenly, Solar-Powered Cars Have a Bright(er) Future

Toyota tests plug-in Prius with its battery range provided by the sun.
By Bertel Schmitt Jul 3, 2019

Automakers Turn into Chipmakers

China’s Geely makes its first SOC, to be followed by a more powerful Tesla-Chip-like version
By Bertel Schmitt Jun 25, 2019

Behold, the Self-Driving Wheelchair. Yes, It Has LIDARs

Panasonic is working on a wheeled chair that will whisk you autonomously from Gate C45 to A39.
By Bertel Schmitt Jun 24, 2019

How to Build a Self-Driving Car: Forget About the Car

Automakers should start with the software, a leading autonomous drive expert says.
By Bertel Schmitt Jun 20, 2019

Love Affair Between Waymo and the Renault-Nissan Alliance Turns Hot

Originally kicked out of the Chairman’s office, Google is now in the self-driving seat.