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Tesla to Stop Practice of Limiting Power When Owners Use Launch Control
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Jan 18, 2017
Tesla’s Gigafactory to Build Model 3 Motors in Addition to Batteries
By Aaron Brown / Published Jan 18, 2017
Electric GT’s Tesla Model S Race Car Does 0-60 MPH in 2.1 Seconds
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Jan 17, 2017
Sweden’s Ambulances Can Block Your Radio Signal
By Max Goldberg / Updated Jan 17, 2017
Watch Rimac’s Electric Hypercar Outrun a Bugatti Veyron in a Drag Race
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Jan 17, 2017
LeEco Gets a $2.2 Billion Lifeline—But Not for Its Cars
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Jan 17, 2017
This Video Shows Volvo’s Plan for In-Car Productivity
By Caleb Jacobs / Updated Jan 16, 2017
Tesla Releases Supercharger Fee Costs
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Jan 15, 2017
Electric BMW M Cars Are Coming
By Max Prince / Updated Jan 13, 2017
Lyft Continues To Bleed Money
By Max Goldberg / Published Jan 13, 2017
Tesla May Reduce Vehicle Power After Too Many Ludicrous Mode Engagements
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 12, 2017
Subaru’s New Infotainment System Has a Birdwatching App
By Will Sabel Courtney / Updated Jan 12, 2017
Mysterious Electric Car Startup Rivian Buys Former Mitsubishi Factory in Illinois
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 12, 2017
Google’s Self-Driving Car Arm Waymo Cuts Lidar Prices by 90 Percent
By Christian Gilbertsen / Updated Jan 12, 2017
BTI3Dlabs Prints Two Fully Functional 3D RC Motorcycles
By Max Goldberg / Published Jan 11, 2017
VW Says an Electric GTI Could Be Coming
By Will Sabel Courtney / Updated Jan 11, 2017
The Bed Cover That Can Do It All
By Evan Yates / Published Jan 10, 2017
Uber’s New Website “Movement” Opens Up the Company’s Treasure Trove of Traffic Data
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 10, 2017
Mercedes-Benz’s CES Concept Turns Delivery Vans into Mobile Drone Launchers
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 6, 2017
Can Rotiform Really Break Into The Off-Road Realm?
By Evan Yates / Updated Jan 5, 2017
The DEVOLRO Tundra Limo is the Ultimate Off-Road People Hauler
By Evan Yates / Updated Jan 5, 2017
Is Porsche Planning An All-Electric Boxster/Cayman Variant?
By Bradley Brownell / Updated Jan 5, 2017
Bosch Wants to Take the Pain out of Finding a Parking Space
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 5, 2017
BMW HoloActive Touch, Semi-Autonomous 5-Series Debuted at CES 2017
By Caleb Jacobs / Updated Jan 5, 2017
Think Tank Proposes eBay for Organ Shortage Created by Autonomous Cars
By Liane Yvkoff / Updated Jan 5, 2017
“Global CEO” of Faraday Future Reportedly Resigns
By Aaron Brown / Updated Jan 5, 2017
Chargepoint to Roll Out Insanely Fast 400 kW Electric Car Chargers This Year
By Will Sabel Courtney / Updated Jan 5, 2017
The NHTSA’s Virtual Reality Drinking-and-Driving Simulation Is…Weird
By Will Sabel Courtney / Updated Jan 5, 2017
The Untold History of the First Driverless Car Crash—Part 2
By Brett Berk / Published Jan 5, 2017
The Drive‘s Toyota FJ Project Is Getting V8 Power
By The Drive Staff / Updated Jan 4, 2017
Faraday Future Gives Us a Teaser
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 29, 2016
Ford’s Autonomous Hybrid Prototype Debuts at CES Next Week
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 28, 2016
The “Tesla Killers” Were the Biggest Disappointment of 2016
By Alex Roy / Published Dec 28, 2016
Watch this Tesla Predict and Avoid a Nasty Highway Wreck
By Aaron Brown / Published Dec 27, 2016
Drive Wire For Wednesday December 21st, 2016: Tesla Plucks Volvo’s Anders Bell
By The Drive Staff / Updated Dec 21, 2016
Tesla to Start Charging Idling Fees for Superchargers
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 19, 2016
Florida Uber Driver Shoots, Kills Armed Would-Be Robber
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Dec 19, 2016
Drive Wire For December 19th, 2016: XL Hybrids Brings Efficiency to Large Fleets
By Max Goldberg / Published Dec 19, 2016
A Consumer’s Guide to Riding in a Self-Driving Uber
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 17, 2016
GM Is About to Start Testing Self-Driving Cars on Michigan Roads
By Devin Altieri / Published Dec 15, 2016
California Tells Uber to Halt Its Self-Driving Car Program Immediately
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Dec 15, 2016
Lucid Motors Reveals Their Tesla-Killer—But Is it, Really?
By Alex Roy / Published Dec 15, 2016
Whoa, Did That Self-Driving Uber Run a Red Light in San Francisco?
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Dec 14, 2016
Drive Wire For December 14th, 2016: The First Three Chevy Bolts Are Delivered
By Eric Goeres / Published Dec 14, 2016
Velodyne’s Cheap New Solid-State Lidar Could Redefine the Self-Driving Car Game
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 14, 2016
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Uber’s Travis Kalanick Join Donald Trump’s Advisory Team
By Will Sabel Courtney / Published Dec 14, 2016
Installing A Porsche Classic SatNav Radio
By Bradley Brownell / Published Dec 14, 2016
The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Through Volvo’s Bower & Wilkins Sound System
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 14, 2016
How Will Google’s New Self-Driving Car Division Waymo Make Money?
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 13, 2016
When the Mobility Bubble Bursts, Which Companies Go ‘Pop’?
By Alex Roy / Published Dec 13, 2016
Google May Have Stopped Working on Its Own Self-Driving Car
By Aaron Brown / Published Dec 13, 2016
INFINITI’s InTouch Technology is Genuinely Intuitive
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 13, 2016
Acura’s Precision Cockpit Concept is Full of Futuristic Tech
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 13, 2016
Audi Shows Off New Traffic Light Information System
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 9, 2016
Five-Minute Recharging Batteries Coming Early as 2020
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 8, 2016
Every BMW Will Come in an Electric Variant by 2020
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 7, 2016
The 2017 Audi A3 e-Tron is the Future of Simple Elegance
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 7, 2016
Don’t Expect to See Any Rotary Cars for a While
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 6, 2016
The 14 People Actually Bringing Us Autonomous Vehicles
By Liane Yvkoff / Published Dec 2, 2016
Why Not Use Amazon Echo To Start Your Hyundai Sonata?
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 1, 2016
Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is Better Than We Thought
By Caleb Jacobs / Published Dec 1, 2016
First Look: What George Hotz Will Probably Announce Tomorrow
By Alex Roy / Published Nov 29, 2016