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The Ford Mustang outsold every non-premium sports car in America combined in the first half of 2026, something it hadn't pulled off since 2008 — 28,725 sold against 4,007 for its closest rival, a seven-to-one beatdown of the Toyota GR86
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (667+ words) The Ford Mustang gets a lot of flak in the car community. There’s the whole crowd-into-the-Cars-and-Coffee-exit thing. But there’s no denying the Mustang is a dominant force in the US, and it’s for a reason. So far this year, more…...
Two batteries built to sit in a shed for 25 years without fading just got hired where lithium fails: one stores charge in molecules dissolved in water on a Maldives island running on imported diesel, the other runs on zinc for a California tribe bracing for 18-hour wildfire blackouts — and neither one can catch fire
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1046+ words) Say the words “grid battery” and most people picture the same thing: rows of lithium-ion cabinets baking in the sun. Lithium is cheap, it’s everywhere, and it nails the four-hour duty cycle the grid asks for most of the time....
A 320-ton driverless truck with 2,700 horsepower just became the 1,000th of its kind to go to work, hauling gold ore through Nevada on a fleet that has moved 11.5 billion tons of rock — while Waymo and Tesla still argue about 3,500 robotaxis
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1308+ words) Meanwhile, there are more driverless haul trucks moving rock around the planet right now than there are Waymos on American streets. They weigh 320 tons each and nobody argues about them. On April 21, Komatsu announced it had commissioned its 1,000th autonomous ultra-class…...
Volkswagen is preparing to kill nearly half the models it builds after its China sales collapsed by more than a third in a single quarter — the CEO's fix is fewer cars, built faster, with less complexity
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (804+ words) Volkswagen had quite the week. On Thursday, the company announced plans to slash its model lineup by up to half. On Friday, it explained why: sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter of 2026, dragged down by a China collapse of 36.6%. Yes,…...
A U.S. state may effectively ban Tesla's Cybercab if recent legislation passes
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (435+ words) New Jersey may essentially ban Tesla’s Cybercab before the vehicle is even available. New Jersey has introduced legislation mandating three types of sensing technology in all robot taxis. Speaking to The Verge, the bill’s main sponsor Sen. Andrew Zwicker, said…...
The current Model Y carries eight cameras, front bumper to license plate, with no unwatched angle around the car, and a freeway driver who sideswiped one and fled just found out exactly how that works
1+ week, 1+ day ago (591+ words) The clip is barely a few seconds long. A car comes flying up in busy freeway traffic, jumps into a lane that very much is not open, realizes it mid-move, and scrapes down the side of the car next to…...
American engineers just patented a hybrid powertrain that isn't chained to the wheels, isn't locked into charging the battery, and isn't forced to do anything at all — an AI picks its job dozens of times a second
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1307+ words) Faraday Future has spent the better part of a decade promising to upend the car industry, and the results have landed somewhere between “modest” and “wait, is this company still going?” The El Segundo outfit has trickled out only a…...
Not the F-150. Not the RAV4. America has a new best-selling vehicle halfway through 2026 — and it took a fire at the plant making 40% of the industry's aluminum, plus Toyota breaking its own best-seller, to finally knock both champions off the top
1+ week, 4+ day ago (883+ words) For pretty much your entire adult life, the best-seller chart in America has had one name on top: the Ford F-150. It has been the country’s best-selling vehicle in 15 of the last 16 years, per Automotive News. The only thing that ever…...
While critics warn floating solar farms smother the water beneath them, the Dutch hung 20 seashell-filled cages under 73,000 panels to find out — and counted 400 fish and close to 2,000 invertebrates in a quarry lake that started out nearly lifeless
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1120+ words) Floating solar farms sound like a tidy fix for a country that has run out of dry land to build on. Stick the panels on a lake, generate power, and save the fields for tulips and cows. The obvious worry…...
America just switched on a 5-gigawatt plant in Georgia that strips old solar panels down to the silver, copper and glass by the million, with a glass factory going up right beside it to feed the recovered material straight back into new US-made panels
1+ week, 6+ day ago (908+ words) Bolting solar panels onto a roof or a field used to be the interesting part of the clean-energy story. It isn’t anymore. Modules that cost a small fortune fifteen years ago now sell for pocket change, they go up by…...