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“Liberation Day” has arrived. Get ready to be liberated from affordable vehicle prices. As promised, President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs for imported vehicles went into effect Thursday, sending the auto industry into full panic mode. Some analysts are predicting a $5,000 to $10,000 pri...

New car prices were already 25% more expensive than before the pandemic. Now what?

Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics of supercapacitors. These are energy storage devices that complement batter...

Smartphone apps that track our driving behavior may be the key to safer road conditions. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just published a study that found that using smartphone apps to monitor driver behavior, and then providing summaries of that behavior via text message or a data dashboard, ...

Cars will cost more. TVs will cost more. Blue jeans will cost more. Everything will cost more. Is this really how we’re going to revive manufacturing?

The numbers are going the wrong way for a company valued on continuing growth.

Amid growing fallout over Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, Tesla’s sales fell a staggering 13 percent in the first quarter of 2025 year over year. The company said it produced a total of 362,615 vehicles in the first three months of the year, including 345,454 Model 3 and Model Y...

The refresh looks the same but charges faster, goes faster, and much farther.

Honda will also find new homes for some heritage IndyCars and MotoGP bikes.

The proposal would lead to European carmakers selling up to 880,000 fewer electric cars between 2025–2027. This is a summary. Download the briefing to find out more. In this paper, T&E has analysed the impact of various flexibilities for compliance with the EU’s 2025 car CO2 target. The analysis cov...

Hyundai has revealed a gaming-inspired “Insteroid” concept EV in Seoul that takes its tiny all-electric Inster and gives it an over-the-top street racing makeover. The automaker’s cutesy compact SUV was handed off to Hyundai’s European design team with the goal of merging “gaming influences with ext...

"Both short-term and short-sighted." Experts concerned by unexpected change millions of motorists are making to cars: 'Not the transition that we are aiming for' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Smartphones are great. They’re also… a lot. The idea of a more balanced device, one that gives you all of the most important and useful features of a smartphone but keeps you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an enticing one for a long time. Nailing that balance, though, turns ou...

China, Canada, Mexico, steel, aluminum, cars, and soon, copper. That’s what the market has concluded following a Bloomberg News report last week that copper tariffs would arrive far sooner than the 270 days President Trump gave the Department of Commerce to conduct its investigation into “dumping” o...

BMW has been making M5s for 40 years, but the latest one has lost its way somewhat.

These days, even an economy car can reach 100 mph. Sports cars can double that. Despite having the power to do so, few drivers zoom around at such speeds, understanding that the potential consequences—a speeding ticket, license revocation or a deadly accident—can be bad.However, people have demonstr...

Oscar Schwartz in The Drift: As Isaacson surveyed the landscape in search of a new genius, one name kept coming up: Elon Musk. He was, without a doubt, a man with grand vision — electric cars, space travel, telepathy. He was unyielding in this vision, too, sometimes belligerently so. …Nevertheless, ...

Consumers will have to pay the price of the president's unnecessary trade war.

As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month. April is filled with momentous turn...

"Let’s build high-speed rails next to highways to show the inferior speed of cars." Video exposes brutal truth about driving compared to high-speed rail: 'The only sales pitch I need' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Thousands of anti-Tesla protesters took to the streets Saturday March 29th in opposition to Elon Musk and his efforts with DOGE to eliminate humanitarian aid, close federal agencies, and fire government workers. It was the culmination of nearly two months of steady, almost daily demonstrations aimed...

A great way to beat the NYC traffic is to ride down the street in one of these motorized lawn chairs. Not only are these a practical solution to riding around cars, but they also bring a little piece of vacation with you, wherever you go. — Read the rest The post Ditch the subway and ride through NY...

Compared to Maskachusetts, Florida is the land of the divided thoroughfare, dedicated left turn lane, and legal U-turn. It’s a little tough for people making a right turn on the cross street, though, to determine if a driver is making a left turn (no conflict) or a U-turn (conflict). Now that all of...

TL;DR: Take advantage of the power of AI with this all-in-one tool, 1minAI, only $79.97 for a lifetime subscription through March 30. What kind of technology did you expect to see in 2025? We bet it was flying cars or hoverboards… not ChatGPT. — Read the rest The post Final call! One day left to sav...

Photos by William Klayer This morning on First Avenue and Ninth Street... OK, who stole the lug nuts?

Drivers are falling out of love with the tech-forward touch screens that have become commonplace in modern cars.

VinFast and other industry leaders are proving that the success of electric vehicles depends not just on technology but on building a seamless ownership ecosystem—one that eliminates range anxiety, ensures reliable service, and makes switching to EVs as effortless as possible. MARKHAM, Ontario — The...

"Elon Musk started spending that money within days of Tesla filing a lawsuit." Elon Musk wages legal battle to ensure more Tesla cars hit the market: 'It is no coincidence' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Google hopes you will park and play, but most gaming in cars will only make sense if self-driving vehicles are a thing.

Nissan slipped out teaser images of the next-generation Nissan LEAF this week. Shifting into crossover territory, it’s a bit different from what has come before, and I’d guess will be Nissan’s most popular LEAF ever. But aside from the look, something powerful struck me, amping up the news much more...

As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to “go after” the people who say or post anything negative about the company — which he labels “propaganda.”  That was what I took away from Elon Musk’s 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focuse...

Many service center operators are installing EV chargers in place of gas pumps, especially in Norway were electric cars are dominant. The post Trading Gas Pumps For EV Chargers In Norway appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola Motors who was convicted of defrauding investors in his zero-emission truck company, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday. A federal jury convicted Milton of lying about Nikola’s capabilities, including an assertion that i...

First, Sony made an unbeatable AI driver; now, it's retrained it to be a good NPC.

Caving in to Trump’s demands to recognise US car standards as equivalent to Europe would be a grave error. But it’s part of a pattern One of Donald Trump’s many obsessions is that Americans buy more cars from Europe than the other way round. To punish European carmakers the US ... [continued] The po...

Google is adding gaming support to Android Auto, with titles including Candy Crush Soda Saga and Angry Birds 2 playable from compatible cars’ touchscreens. The new feature is included in the beta version of Android 14.1, which is rolling out to testers now. Only four games are currently supported, w...

by Mark R. DeLong Writing about American cars stranded in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, John McElroy observed that “there’s something very appealing, almost romantic about these cars. Coated in a patina of history they hearken back to a time when Detroit iron dominated the global auto industry, a time of can...

Our neighbor has a Model Y that is one generation behind the recently introduced one. He reports having made a 4-hour trip from Gainesville (home of University of Florida, which needs to branch out!) without once touching the steering wheel. I wonder if this supports a “yes” answer to Do self-drivin...

Expect new cars to cost thousands of dollars more as a result of the new tariffs.

GMC’s flagship electric truck is starting to fill out its lineup. The GM-owned brand announced new AT4 and Elevation trims for the Sierra EV, which will sit below the Denali trim that’s currently the only version available to customers. The Elevation trim will lack some of the premium features that ...

For years we've heard that fully autonomous vehicles were just around the corner. Yet here we are in 2025, and truly self-driving... Read More... Source

Current conditions: South Korea’s massive wildfires have doubled in size in 24 hours • Fires are also spreading in North and South Carolina, consuming nearly 18,000 acres • A year’s worth of rain could fall over the next few days along the Texas Gulf Coast. THE TOP FIVE 1. Trump imposes 25% tariffs ...

It’s another batch of three new cars coming at the end of the month for Gran Turismo 7. The racing game has found its groove back and have been maintaining this cadence for its monthly free content updates, and March 2025 continues the trend. Also known as Update 1.57, the March 2025 update for GT7 ...

The post Trump hits cars made outside U.S. with 25% tariff in major blow to Canadian industry appeared first on The Logic.

During a briefing on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced plans to put a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks imported into the US. Trump said the taxes would go into effect on April 2nd — the same time he’s expected to introduce a round of reciprocal tariffs, according to The New York Times....

Think e-bikes and scooters, not cars or SUVs.

Red Bull will promote Yuki Tsunoda after Liam Lawson's two bad races.

The Nissan Leaf is back, and it’s not a frumpy looking hatchback anymore. The Japanese automaker is dusting off its pioneering EV and giving it new technology and a new form factor. The Leaf will return as a crossover SUV with a Tesla plug (!!), casting off its outdated appearance that previously le...