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Ah, self-driving. The promise of kicking back and letting your car do all of the heavy lifting from point-a to point-b while you doom scroll TikTok or pop a movie on Netflix. It's a wonderful reality we've been sold for years, but no company has made good on it despite…

Everybody who knows cars and four-wheel equipment knows about the Mercedes-Benz Unimog. It’s a legendary name in the truck industry and a regular occurrence in Europe where it can be seen mowing hedges, plowing snow and even hopping onto train tracks and doing some railworks.

The last Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class was a handsome, aerodynamic front- and all-wheel-drive sedan aimed at bringing new customers to the Silver Arrow brand with an affordable price tag and efficient four-cylinder engines. You probably wouldn't say that it lit the world on fire, however. That's why the arrival of a new…

China is reaching new heights in diversifying the battery chemistries used in electric vehicles. The country is already leading in subcategories of lithium-based chemistries, like nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC), nickel-aluminum-cobalt (NCA) and lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP). Earlier this year, state-run utility company China Southern Power Grid even deployed sodium-ion batteries for stationary energy storage. Now…

Imagine a self-driving pickup truck made of bulletproof stainless steel, weighing over 6,600 pounds, hurtling down the road as you stand in its path. You'd expect its cameras and sensors to detect you and bring it to a stop. However, at least one independent test suggests the Cybertruck may fail…

Pedestrian safety. It’s something modern American cars struggle with, partly because there’s no standard in place to test how a human head hitting a vehicle hood would fare in an impact. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is working on introducing a new standard to change this, but until that…

With the introduction of the all-new Cadillac Vistiq, the number of electric three-row SUVs got just a little bit bigger. Caddy’s latest EV slots between the Lyriq and the upcoming Escalade IQ, and rounds out the luxury American automaker’s battery-powered SUV portfolio nicely.

Updated on November 27, 2024, to add the Hyundai Ioniq 9.

It's not even been two weeks since former President Donald Trump won reelection, and to me, it's very telling that some of his incoming administration's top priorities right out of the gate seem to be car-related. One, we know about: attempting to end the electric vehicle tax credits. We'll discuss…