Car Tech

The seven-year-old startup's FF91 is still enticing, and the company is showing that it plans to keep the model's leading-edge tech focus.

Ford considered in-wheel hub motors such as those being used by Lordstown Motors, but it ruled them out for a long list of reasons.

Although Bosch is proactive on climate issues, it doesn't see battery-electric vehicles as the whole future.

As tires wear from driving, they shed particles that can be carried far away, contributing to pollution in the ocean and atmosphere.

Teammate "Advanced Drive" appears to offer some of the functionality of Navigate on Autopilot, with a more conservative approach than Tesla.

Chakratec brings back flywheel tech in a package that could do a lot of good in balancing the grid as fast-charging needs put the pinch on it.

The suite called Navigation Guided Pilot, released by the Chinese EV maker Xpeng, sounds very close to Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot functionality—but with the addition of lidar.

Fisker Intelligent Pilot won't count lidar sensors as part of its initial component set, although like Tesla it will offer cameras, ultrasonic sensors, and radar.

The Polestar 2 is a Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist, a YouTuber built an electric Mini Cooper, and Volkswagen's taking a different marketing approach in launching the ID.4.

The road-surface solar panels might power streetlights or serve with energy storage as backup for grid outages.

Lordstown poached employees and stole infotainment secrets and know-how from Karma Automotive, the latter alleges.

Active Drive Assist will allow hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of highways in North America—in more than 100,000 vehicles in the first year.

Underinflated tires—and tire choice in general—subtract a surprising amount of electric vehicle driving range.

The UK national winner for the James Dyson Award is an innovative idea for collecting particulate matter pollution from tires.

Drivers will be able to assess what the air quality is like inside their vehicle, which with filtration might be better than that inside their houses.

A new alliance could take the partnership to a next level, involving the joint development of full vehicle platforms and a shared supply chain.

Next-generation premium gasoline and EV Audi models will have an electronic chassis platform with 10 times the computing power of the current unit.

The partnership between Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia will allow OTA updates and upgrades and future autonomous-vehicle features.

Apple announced a series of iPhone iOS updates Monday, some of which will bring new features to BMW vehicles soon.

These two Tesla and Ford systems might have nearly the same function, but a cultural rift between Detroit and Silicon Valley separates them.