Author: Sofia
A lease is a great way to sample a new car without making a true commitment. You get to live with the thing for 12 or 24 or 36 months and, no matter how many problems it has, no matter how badly it depreciates, you’re never going to be out more than you expected. You won’t have to worry about selling the thing, either. That was partly my mindset in engaging 36 months of non-committal partnership with a 2024 BMW iX xDrive50. If you haven’t followed along with the updates, my wife and I got a sweet lease deal back…
Tesla owners used to hide the fact that they were abusing Full Self-Driving. Now they film it, add a caption, and post it for the algorithm. Sleeping at highway speed, gaming with a controller, watching live TV, answering emails on a laptop — a whole genre of “look what my Tesla lets me get away with” content has taken over Instagram, TikTok, and X, and almost every clip in it shows a driver doing something that is flatly illegal in the country where it was filmed. A content genre built on breaking the law The clearest example making the rounds…
Lexus appears to be working on a performance-focused version of the RX SUV. Fresh spy shots from the Nurburgring show a heavily camouflaged prototype that could eventually become an RX Morizo RR. The test car features wider performance tyres, lightweight Rays wheels and huge Brembo brakes with slotted rotors. Michelin Pilot Sport SUV tyres measure 265/40 at the front and an enormous 295/35 at the rear. The prototype gets additional front air intakes, apparently housing intercoolers, wider fenders and a prominent dual-exhaust setup. Clearly, this is not simply an RX with a few cosmetic tweaks. Lexus has yet to reveal…
Tesla Cybertruck’s three configurations are all the same on the outside from an appearance perspective, but they differ slightly in price, range, performance, and other features. After yesterday’s price adjustment, Tesla’s Base All-Wheel-Drive Cybertruck is now priced at $74,990, a far cry from the $59,990 it started at several months ago. At $60,000, the Cybertruck All-Wheel-Drive is a steal: no pickup, electric or gas-powered, comes close in terms of overall driving capability thanks to Steer-by-Wire; no truck is more fun to drive at that price, and add in Full Self-Driving for $99 per month, and you truly have the best…
In a new blog post, Waymo laid out 10 takeaways from 200 million miles of autonomous operation. It took some swipes at Tesla’s approach to developing self-driving tech. Waymo casted doubt on camera-only systems, end-to-end AI, and improving a Level 2 system to full autonomy. Waymo didn’t name Tesla in its latest blog post. But it didn’t really have to. The two companies have spent years pursuing radically different visions of what self-driving technology should look like. And on Wednesday Waymo made it abundantly clear which it thinks will win. In the post, the company’s vice president of onboard software, Srikanth…
We’ve got two flash sales leading our midweek Green Deals, starting with Bluetti’s 72-hour flash sale with up to $701 savings on six power station alternator charger bundles starting from $629, as well as a solo deal below it for the brand’s 288Wh Elite 30 V2 Portable Power Station at $219. Next, there is Lectric’s 24-hour 25% off pet accessory flash sale with deals starting from $44, which is running alongside the brand’s ongoing Labor Day e-bike Sale. From there, we spotted the Greenworks 60V 21-inch 4-in-1 Cordless Self-Propelled Mower with 2x batteries at $440, a constantly fluctuating discount on…
Voltpost is releasing two new EV chargers. Both products are meant to make retrofitting easy, which means apartment-dwellers may finally have a simple solution for EV charging. The company says that its mounting methods cut install costs by as much as 70%. There’s a little assumption that is seemingly baked into EV ownership advice: home charging. Most people assume that anyone buying an EV is just charging in their driveway. After all, most of the convenience and savings in EV ownership comes from home charging. But relying on public fast charging can often prove to be nearly as expensive as…
Range Rover is adding a fifth member to its lineup, but this one is a bit of an outlier. The new GT brings a distinct fastback design to the family. Here’s our first look at it on the road. Range Rover tests new electric GT ahead of its debut The British luxury brand created quite the stir when it revealed the Range Rover GT last month, the fifth and newest member of the lineup. Unlike its current lineup of luxury SUVs, the Range Rover GT is a low-slung grand tourer. Range Rover said the new vehicle is “a captivating new…
Nearly two weeks after a summer derecho knocked out power, tens of thousands of people in Gary, Indiana were still without power, with many taking to social media to highlight the reality of living through a prolonged blackout. While the utility made excuses, the data centers that powered the community’s social media presence were humming along, built on a very different assumption: that the power MUST stay on.And, if you tilted your head just so, that humming might have sounded like a warning. According to initial reports from NW Indiana utility NIPSCO, nearly 370,000 people were left without power in…
The current Ultium-based Chevy Bolt isn’t going to last long, with its planned discontinuation happening in Summer 2027. However, while it’s here, it’s one of the more intriguing affordable EV options and one that customers should keep their eyes on. There’s some understandable confusion surrounding the Bolt, though, and this new video from Ever nicely breaks down some of the biggest and most impactful changes made to this 2027 model for anyone interested in buying one. Chevy was originally going to discontinue the Bolt after 2023. However, both internal and external pressure led GM to reopen the Bolt’s file. Unfortunately,…