Vehicles (Page 3)

The latest on the cars, motorcycles, and other rides that carry us where we want to go.

Latest in Vehicles

CR450AF high speed train on track in China with two people looking at it

At 281 mph, China tests its fastest high-speed train

a green sports car skidding across the ice, kicking up ice

Behind the wheel of Lamborghinis ripping across a frozen lake

By Kristin Shaw

a factory worker works on factory link assembling a car engine

Electric Vehicles

Honda’s special welding method is transforming its car manufacturing

By Kristin Shaw

HEGER Brock (usa), Polaris, Sébastien Loeb Racing - RZR Factory Racing, SSV T4, portrait during the Stage 9 of the Dakar 2025 on January 14, 2025 between Riyadh and Haradh, Saudi Arabia - Photo Frédéric Le Floc'h / DPPI

A promising rookie takes on the world’s most grueling off-road race

ROV screenshot of OceanGate Titan wreckage tail section

Listen to chilling underwater audio of the OceanGate ‘Titan’ implosion

a car with "NASCAR" on hood parked inside a facility with man standing outside of car

How 3D-printed parts changed the NASCAR Cup Series

By Kristin Shaw

Yellow Cyclone V-Twin motorcycle

A 110-year-old hot rod is the first motorcycle to sell for over $1M at auction

an SUV on a dirt road in hilly area

The 2025 Toyota 4Runner is shockingly ready for whoops

By Kristin Shaw

Researchers say taking steps to prevent battery fires may be more effective than relying on possibly dangerous flame retardants.

Electric Vehicles

Flame retardants in some batteries might be making fires worse

By Mack DeGeurin

a beefed-up truck drives across desert dunes

How Ford crafted a Raptor T1+ to race across 5,000 miles of desert

By Kristin Shaw

Cybertruck Cyberbeast edition seized by UK police

Electric Vehicles

UK police seize Cybertruck because it’s illegal there

a futuristic car on stage

Electric Vehicles

Taking on Tesla, Honda debuts wild 0 Series EV prototypes

By Kristin Shaw

a car in a steel room

Electric Vehicles

Inside Nissan’s extreme weather testing facility

By Kristin Shaw

Dimmable car sun visor

This company wants to redesign the humble car sun visor

sensors visible Waymo robotaxi

Aerodynamic sensors could speed up autonomous vehicles

By Mack DeGeurin

Toyota's Woven City at dusk with Mount Fuji in background

Electric Vehicles

Welcome to Woven City: Toyota offers first glimpse at futuristic town

Baby spider monkey in a pink onesie

Endangered baby monkey found clinging to driver of speeding Rolls Royce

a car body in a repair shop

Inside the company ripping apart classic Porsche 911s to restore them with impeccable detail

By Kristin Shaw

(Original Caption) 1938-Close-up of the very front end of a 1938 Cadillac La Salle. This smaller counterpart to the Cadillac features a smaller radiator grille, and four headlights, as well as the hood ornament and bumper.

Why don’t cars have hood ornaments anymore?

By Kristin Shaw

Lamborghini Miura junkyard auction car

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

A Waymo robotaxi Jaguar I-PACEs driverless car makes a stop in downtown Los Angeles Monday, March 11, 2024.

2024 was the year robotaxis proved they are here to stay

By Mack DeGeurin

Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron

Electric Vehicles

2025 Audi Q6 e-Tron harnesses EV architecture from Porsche

By Kristin Shaw

an SUV rides off road on dirt

Nissan’s revitalized Armada has cameras so comprehensive, you can (almost) drive blindfolded

By Kristin Shaw

A participant in the Volvo x Bowers & Wilkins Abbey Road Studio Mode launch experiments with the interface in an EX90 EV SUV.

How Volvo, Bowers & Wilkins, and Abbey Road are widening the lanes of in-car audio

A digital license plate made by Bay Area company Reviver Auto is displayed at Reviver Auto headquarters on May 30, 2018 in Foster City, California.

Researchers hack digital license plates, demonstrating way to evade tolls and cops

By Mack DeGeurin

a red van parked

Electric Vehicles

The future-retro VW microbus is finally here—quirks and all

Cruise had planned to expand its testing and offer autonomous rides through the Uber app as early as 2025.

GM is killing Cruise robotaxis

By Mack DeGeurin

an orange luxury car faces the camera

Bentley hybridizes its Flying Spur and boosts its range to 515 miles

By Kristin Shaw

New research suggests daily EV driving may not decay lithium-ion batteries as quickly as once thought.

Electric Vehicles

Surprise: EV batteries might have a longer shelf live than once thought

By Mack DeGeurin

an SUV sitting on pavement in from of trees

2025 Volvo XC90 is more efficient with a twist on 1950s engineering

By Kristin Shaw

A Tesla Model 3 engaged in the so-called ‘Full Self Driving’ mode reportedly plowed through a deer without ever detecting it. While more advanced driverless systems use a mix of sensors including LiDAR, Tesla is trying to attain full autonomy using only cameras.

Why are ‘driverless’ cars still hitting things?

By Mack DeGeurin

A close-up view of a green traffic light with an image of two walking lesbian girls at the center of Vienna, Austria.

Some of the world’s smartest traffic lights are getting smarter

Concept art of Tesla Cybercab on city street at night

Electric Vehicles

Tesla seeks human ‘remote operators’ to help ‘autonomous’ robotaxi service

interior of a sedan

Toyota uses noise and vibration engineers in pursuit of cabin silence that rivals luxury cars

By Kristin Shaw

Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on September 12, 2022.

Electric Vehicles

‘Everything has a cost:’ High-tech products and the new era of mineral mining

By Mack DeGeurin

Goodbye, annoying touchscreens. Welcome back, buttons?

By Mack DeGeurin

A display case in the Napa, California sun shows off four pistons of increasing cleanliness to illustrate the effect Valvoline Restore & Protect engine oil can have on high-mileage vehicles after regularly scheduled maintenance

What wine blends and NASCAR wins taught me about engine oil

a sports car on a mountain road

Aston Martin vanquishes the ghosts of bygone spies

a pickup truck with three large screens in trunk

5 cool Toyota concept builds that’ll make you want to adventure outside

By Kristin Shaw

truck in the sand

How the 2025 Ram 1500 RHO squeezes more power from fewer cylinders

By Kristin Shaw

a military-like sports car

There’s a real Wayne Enterprises, and it’s selling a $3 million Batmobile

A graphic depicting the inner workings of a 2024 Toyota Mirai, showing the vehicle's hydrogen storage system, fuel cell, and electric motor.

Why aren’t we driving hydrogen powered cars yet? There’s a reason EVs won.

By Harriet Weber

a black race car on a track in front of a hill

Pirelli’s ‘Cyber Tire’ technology uses a tiny sensor to transmit big data

By Kristin Shaw

There is an economic argument for building out America’s public EV charging infrastructure.

Electric Vehicles

Public EV chargers are good for the planet. They’re also good for business.

By Tik Root/Grist

green old car parked on the street

Bentley used original design drawings to meticulously recreate its 1930 Speed Six

By Kristin Shaw

a blue convertible on a mountain road

The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed sounds posh

Cybertruck in showroom

Electric Vehicles

Recalled Cybertruck rearview camera was so slow it was illegal

In the 1950s, transistor technology allowed smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard.

Congress is trying to force carmakers to keep AM radio

By Matthew Jordan / The Conversation

a green supercar covered in dirt

3 ultra-rare Lamborghini Miuras unearthed at junkyard. They could sell for millions.

By Kristin Shaw

woman riding a motorcycle in a green field

Electric Vehicles

Can-Am’s first motorcycles in decades set the (handle)bar high for e-motorbikes

By Kristin Shaw

Tesla electric Cybertruck parked in the shopping plaza. Front view.

Electric Vehicles

$8,000 ‘Full Self-Driving Mode’ is finally in select Cybertrucks

Concept art of USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle on neighborhood street

USPS explains chunky bumpers on new duck-shaped trucks

electric scooter

E-bike and scooter injuries are up 293%

By Mack DeGeurin

The best portable jump starters arranged in a pattern

The best portable jump starters, tested and reviewed

Nissan cars will yell at you for hogging the fast lane

By Mack DeGeurin

Man riding on 3D printed Lego minibike

Engineer builds rideable LEGO motorbike using oversized 3D-printed bricks

2024 EV9 dashboard screen and infotainment system

Electric Vehicles

The iPhone-ification of cars unlocks a new world of options

By Kristin Shaw

a black car part with a man holding a heat gun. his reflection is seen in the car

Inside the Texas factory where a gravel-shooting machine pummels self-healing cars

By Kristin Shaw

Lego Full Scale McLaren P1 driving

LEGO built a full-scale, drivable McLaren P1 model

A bullet train passes below Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Japan will test self-driving bullet trains in 2028

Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs

By Mack DeGeurin

a sedan sitting in front of concrete structures

Electric Vehicles

Lucid reinvents the electric motor by thinking small. Really small.

By Kristin Shaw

blue sportscar on a track

Electric Vehicles

Driving the $2 Million, 2,000-horsepower Rimac Nevera EV

hypercar in a dark room

The coolest technology in the Bugatti Tourbillon hypercar is… analog?

By Kristin Shaw