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All electric car owners know that cold weather affects range. It’s a chemical phenomenon that also gives your phone, laptop, and anything else powered by lithium-ion batteries a hard time through the winter months. But since electric car chargers aren’t yet as convenient as USB sockets, it’s the EVs that …

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future. In the city of San Francisco alone, two taxi companies have collectively logged 8 million miles of autonomous driving through August 2023. And more than 850,000 autonomous aerial …

Apple’s secretive vehicle project doesn’t have much to show for its six years of work, at least publicly. But records submitted by the company to a California agency show that Apple went on an autonomous testing jag last year, almost quadrupling the number of miles it tested on public roads …

German auto manufacturer Porsche announced its second-ever model of an all-electric vehicle. The new EV Macan comes in two forms—the Macan 4 and the slightly beefier Macan Turbo. Both of these all-electric SUVs have high-performance 100-kilowatt-hour batteries. These are also the first Porsches to use an 800-volt architecture, which allows …

A cheaper model of Tesla electric vehicle is coming late next year, CEO Elon Musk told investors today. If it launches on Musk’s ambitious timeline, it might arrive in time to help Tesla parry the growing might of Chinese EV makers. The “next generation” compact vehicle Musk mentioned could represent …

It's hard to escape the fact that American trucks and SUVs have been on a steroid-infused diet for the past few years. The trend was all too apparent at the last auto show we went to—at Chicago in 2020, I felt physically threatened just standing next to some of the …

Perhaps you’ve heard: In many places, it’s really very cold out. Deep freezes hit wide bands of the US this week; snow and freezing rain have swept across northern Europe. This is all less than ideal for electric vehicles, which historically have not loved the cold. A handful of Chicago …

A Tesla Model Y owner got fed up with the company not offering solar panels for its cars, so he built one himself. Reddit user somid3 shared his project, dubbed Beta One, last week (via Electrek). It’s a deployable solar roof that weighs less than 165 lbs and can retract …

After years of waiting, Tesla finally delivered the first Cybertrucks in 2023. We’ll have to see whether the many development quality issues have been fixed, of course—but, thankfully, as it’s been handed to (very few select) customers, we won’t have to yet again include the truck in our yearly guide. …

It’s not just you: American cars have gotten bigger. Over the past two decades, growing numbers of US buyers have turned in their sedans for SUVs and pickup trucks. And those SUVs and pickups have grown ever more hulking. The electrification of driving isn’t slowing the growth spurt. Batteries are …