GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
Owners of GM cars found their driving data had been sold to insurance companies.
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Cars // All things automotive
2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there’s no plug involved
Nissan’s series hybrid e-Power system has been retuned for American roads.
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Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
With more than 200 kWh, this luxury three-row can go 460 miles on a charge.
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Ford simplifies using your EV as a home battery with the $30K Fathom
The Fathom pickup won’t need a wall-mounted inverter to output 10 kW to your house.
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F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
Ars spends the weekend with the Audi Revolut F1 team at the Circuit of the Americas.
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Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.
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Electric or gas? BMW goes both ways with new 2027 X5 and iX5.
460 kW charging and 450 miles of range are among the reasons the EV is the one to get.
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Forget “Malaise 2.0,” GM says it’s still all-in on EVs and autonomy
General Motors’ plans will require quite a lot of customers’ trust.
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Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrank in Q3 2026.
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Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a “good idea,” Musk says
“I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining the companies.”
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Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car
Drivers had electrodes strapped to their heads as they tested EVs on track.
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Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
Slate’s first showroom sells the promise. Mass production will determine the rest.
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Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.
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Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
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Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030
With the end of IMSA’s 2026 season, we have thoughts about the future of the sport.
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The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.
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F1 in Singapore: There’s a new fastest car now
Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
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Volkswagen’s replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
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Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.
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Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
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AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
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All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow
The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV.
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F1 in Bahrain… in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
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Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025.
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Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
Autonomous vehicle designers have to worry about riders getting frisky in public.
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BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium
The 2027 BMW 330 starts at $49,900, the i3 50 xDrive at $61,500.
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This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.
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Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
In 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.
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F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.
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Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.
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US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
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Formula 1 looks at 3.0 L V8 turbos and smaller hybrids for 2030
F1 wants smaller, lighter cars that are not energy-starved like the 2026 hybrids.
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Here’s the Torcal, the first fully electric Bentley
It sounds like a V8, rides like a Flying Spur, but handles like a Continental GT.
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After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai
Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles.
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Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.
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Saudi Arabia wants a car industry, launches Ceer with two EVs
The new carmaker is a joint venture between the Saudi PIF and Foxconn.
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