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A recent report claimed Tesla would launch the Cybercab in Austin by the end of this month. It was allegedly an "internal target", and the company will miss it, but only by a few short days. Tesla has now announced the Cybercab "exclusive access"...

We used to measure vehicle supremacy in turbo boost and how violently its quad-exhaust barked on downshifts. Today? That battlefield moved from combustion chambers to cleanrooms, with the real dominance decided in nanometers and memory on tap....

The Mercedes-Benz GLB has been on the market for less than a decade, yet it is already entering its third generation. The original model proved popular thanks to its unique combination of compact dimensions and seven seats, although it was not...

Tesla finally commenced the mass production of its Semi truck in Nevada this year, following its initial introduction all the way back in 2017. And now that the factory has started churning them out, the company seems to have big plans for the...

Tesla is getting ready to launch its Cybercab driverless taxi service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month, according to a report from earlier this week. But at the time, the number of unsupervised autonomous Tesla vehicles doing rounds in...

Today at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD showcased the third-generation Tang SUV, which is an important model because it's meant to revitalize the sales of the Tang series, together with the bigger Da Tang (Great Tang). The new Tang is a five-seat...

Nobody could have predicted ten years ago that one day, Hyundai's fledgling luxury spin-off would celebrate its tenth anniversary by taking aim at Crewe and Goodwood. Very short ten years after the stately G90 limousine first cleared its throat,...

Google has fixed two very frustrating bugs in Android Auto. First, with the latest update, Android Auto 17.4, a connection bug that caused the connection to drop or freeze every few minutes on some phones and car head units has now been squashed,...

While Geely is building its first in-house solid-state battery pack plant, Geely Holding is working on its next-generation solid-state battery for EVs, which is supposed to offer a whopping 500 Wh/kg energy density. If Geely indeed achieves that...

If someone told you a decade ago that an executive Buick would pack a rear-drive electric muscle and an ultra-plush cabin for less than the price of a bare-bones hatchback, you probably would have laughed them out of the room. But a decade is a lot...

A single BMW test driver rolled out of the Shenyang manufacturing plant at dawn, pointed the snout of the new BMW iX3 toward the capital, and refused to stop until Beijing's ring roads came into view. By the time he pulled into BMW's R&D...

When Nio first began dotting the Chinese landscape with robotic battery swap stations, many dismissed the whole enterprise as an eccentric, money-burning vanity project. Conventional wisdom dictated that building huge drive-in mechanical vaults was...

Some time ago, we were invited to preview Xiaomi’s new SkyNomad N70 and N90, and we can now finally share everything we learned. Until now, the interior of the smaller N70 had remained under wraps, but after spending some time inside, we can reveal...

Leather has enjoyed a century-long monopoly over luxury car interiors, but I always struggled to understand our obsession with it. In the heat of mid-July, it turns into a scorching skillet, and by January, it feels like you're sitting on a block of...

Building a desirable car from scratch has to be the quickest way on earth to incinerate a mountain of cash. Doing it when your background is stamping out pocket-sized glass rectangles and smart rice cookers makes it look like pure madness. And yet,...

When Zhejiang Geely scooped up Volvo from Ford's bargain basement back in 2010, the automotive establishment assumed the Chinese industrial giant would simply siphon off Swedish safety patents and leave Gothenburg to build sensible estate cars....

According to a report from The Information, Tesla is getting ready to launch its autonomous Cybercab service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month. However, this is an internal target, and there are indications Tesla might miss it. The...

Enzo Ferrari once famously quipped that he sold engines and threw the rest of the car in for free. For well over seven decades, that intoxicating, high-rpm combustion crescendo was the untouchable soul of Maranello. But when the Italian marque...

The automotive world has a way of delivering plot twists that no scriptwriter would have imagined a decade ago. Porsche - the sacred temple of screaming flat-sixes, and motorsport pedigree - has formally decided to decouple from its parent...

In the last decade or so, screens have become an inseparable part of modern-day vehicles, but at some point, the pendulum has swung a bit too far. Nowadays, drivers are complaining about complicated UI and touch controls to perform simple tasks like...