Car Tech

Tires with embedded sensors might improve sustainability and efficiency.

Hyundai's developed heated glass, investigating radiant heat, and still testing window-tint tech in the name of efficiency gains.

Detritus from tires could be as bad as—or worse than—tailpipe emissions, but Ford thinks it has a way to cure that problem.

A portable twin-burner induction stove designed for the R1T and R1S fills a gap.

The fuel economy boost might be negligible, but should you worry more about wear and tear?

Very fast-charging cells could help steer EVs away from excess weight and bigger battery packs than needed.

Part of the new battery-electric’s style has come from the controversial tool, but does it show—and does it matter?

Hyundai's Nano Cooling Film reduces interior temperatures by specifically blocking external heat and radiating internal heat toward the outside of the vehicle.

Future energy management features for EV owners might include balancing home energy use with EV charging times.

Rivian accidentally pushed the wrong build in a recent software update for the R1T and R1S, temporarily rendering the infotainment system useless.

Airless tires have long been considered beneficial for EVs, and a postal-van test in France will help prove the tire tech in the real world.

The carbon black key to durability isn't from combustion but from a process from Monolith using methane and renewable electricity.

All Tesla models now have heat pumps—a complete turnaround versus a few years ago when it considered the tech unnecessary.

The charging robot, developed by EFI Automotive, intelligently detects the vehicle’s charging needs, moves into place for the charge, and will choose off-peak times to do so when possible. 

The tech could also help with the monitoring of solid-state batteries and higher-power fast-charging.

Bottom line: Lucid claims that its drive units are light, compact, efficient, power-dense, and can be scaled up. And it took going back to the core physics to get there.

The E Tense Performance aims for a future in which brake dust and brake-pad replacements might be a thing of the past, and brake regen handles it all.

Nissan’s e-4orce all-wheel-drive system is the technology star of the Ariya lineup—but it’s not arriving until a few months later.

DreamDrive Pro has been billed as an answer to Tesla's Autopilot, and Lucid has hinted that it might eventually exceed the capabilities of that and other systems.

The Software 3.0 update will be made available to existing vehicles free of charge via an over-the-air (OTA) update