Enlarge / British Airways Aerospatiale BAC Concorde taking off with afterburners blazing. aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If you’re a bit of a plane nerd—and if you’re reading this site, the odds are good that you are—a rather interesting eBay auction ended over the weekend. The auction site knows it as item number 116001533010;…
Getty Images I like the idea of drawing the year to a close with some good news for a change, and I think maybe the US Environmental Protection Agency does as well. On Wednesday, the EPA published its Automotive Trends Report, which now included data for model-year 2022 vehicles. And the data is good: record-low…
Waymo Waymo on Wednesday released new crash data based on the company’s first 7.1 million miles of fully driverless operations in Arizona and California. The data show that human-driven cars are more than twice as likely to get into a crash that is reported to the police. And depending on how you do the math,…
Enlarge / I’m not 100 percent sure, but it looks a lot like the Vistiq will be a three-row SUV. Cadillac Cadillac’s product planners sure love the letter Q. Last year, the American luxury automaker started building the Lyriq, a rather competent midsize electric SUV. Last month, it revealed plans for an entry-level electric crossover…
Enlarge / Mercedes-Benz receives approvals for turquoise-colored automated driving marker lights in California and Nevada Mercedes-Benz Authorities in California and Nevada have both granted Mercedes-Benz permission to test out a new car-to-human communication idea. While we’re still some way away from road cars emoting like some of the concepts we’ve seen in the past few…
Enlarge / Yes, pickup trucks are used in work situations, but they’re also bought by people who want to drive them off-road. Kristin Shaw Between a new platform and the model’s first hybrid powertrain, the redesigned 2024 Toyota Tacoma is full of interesting tidbits and both off- and on-road enhancements. The refresh has been a…
Enlarge / Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Milton is set to be sentenced on Monday after being found guilty of securities fraud and wire fraud in October 2022. The disgraced founder and former CEO of the “zero emissions” truck company Nikola, Trevor Milton,…
Enlarge / The Specialized Turbo Creo 2 Comp taking a break from central Illinois gravel. Eric Bangeman If the question is “what is the ideal number of bikes to own,” the answer is usually “n+1.” Whether you are into gravel trails, BMX, mountain biking, road biking, or cyclecross, there’s a bike for that. But after…
John Timmer The arrival of e-bikes has blurred the lines between bicycles, mopeds, and scooters. Depending on what country or state you’re in, some e-bikes can legally hit 45 km/hour (28 mph), yet they don’t require a license, registration, or insurance, unlike their competitors. Whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on whether the…
Enlarge / Extreme E travels to remote locations by boat and brings its own energy infrastructure with it. Currently, it makes its own hydrogen on site and uses that to charge EV batteries, but in 2025, the cars will switch to hydrogen fuel cells. Colin McMaster / LAT Images ANTOFAGASTA, Chile — On a picnic…
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