Tag: cars
How They Make the Mario Kart-Style ‘Ghost Car’ for Auto Racing Broadcasts
“GPS is good in places, but we go to places like Monaco, Baku, Singapore, where all that infrastructure and buildings really make GPS drift,”...
US EV Sales Are Booming—for Now
In March, President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the lawn of the White House to show off a line of...
The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan
Houchois describes Tesla as a reluctant carmaker, forced to spend industrial levels of capital updating a physical product from which software levels of margin...
Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
Doug Field, Ford's chief EV, digital and design officer, who formerly ran Apple's car program and was led the development of the Model 3...
Here’s How to Buy the Best Used EV
Keep in mind, too, that your charging preferences should also guide the kind of car you buy. Some charge much faster than others. You...
Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
What is the future of cars? For one thing, after substantial government support and poaching of top Western talent, China’s car industry is about...
Listening to Dolby Atmos Music in a Cadillac for Two Weeks Ruined Stereo for Me
Not everything pops with such dramatics, and there were some tracks where something was lost (or rather gained) in translation. Reverb was one element...
Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. Here’s a List of What’s Been Killed So Far
The year 2025 is only half over. But for some of global automakers’ most ambitious electric vehicle projects, the In Memoriam segment is already...
Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars
WIRED contacted Huawei to ask about its potential role in the subsidies. Huawei did not comment in time for publication.One of the earliest subsidies...
GM’s Final EV Battery Strategy Copies China’s Playbook: Super Cheap Cells
General Motors has just announced its latest and likely final piece in what now appears to be a three-pronged cell-chemistry strategy to power GM’s...