Harris County prosecutors have charged the Tesla driver who crashed into a Katy, Texas, home and killed a 76-year-old woman with manslaughter, alleging he overrode Full Self-Driving to floor the car to 73 mph in a residential cul-de-sac.
The charging document also reveals something new: in the weeks before the crash, the driver had been Googling that FSD wasn’t aggressive enough.
Michael David…
The new Storm edition variant offers “more bang for your buck,” Kia said after introducing the new special edition model.
Meet the Kia EV5 and Sportage Storm edition
The Sportage and EV5 are already among Kia’s most popular SUVs, but the new Storm variants may hit the…
A growing number of Tesla Cybertruck owners are losing the ability to charge at home due to failures of the truck’s Power Conversion System (PCS), the unit that handles AC charging and steps the high-voltage pack down to the 48-volt system.
Tesla is aware of the problem…
Rivian’s new R2 has been spotted near Rivian HQ sporting a LiDAR sensor, which won’t be included with the earliest vehicles but will be added in a few months. And the implementation actually looks pretty good, compared to the large “taxi bumps” present on many other vehicles.
Claims of future self-driving ability are all the rage in the automotive industry for quite some time now, a…
BYD's flagship electric SUV is so smooth that it won an anti-motion-sickness certification
July 2, 2026
BYD’s new full-size electric SUV features an industry-first anti-motion-sickness mode for all passengers.
BYD’s Great Tang wins an anti-motion sickness award
The Great Tang is BYD’s largest SUV yet, measuring over 17 feet (5,236 mm) long. As BYD’s first D-segment…
BMW revealed the new X5 on Tuesday, including the first all-electric iX5. The iX5 adopts the Neue Klasse style and tech with an impressive range of up to 525 miles on a single charge.
Meet the first electric BMW iX5 60 xDrive
For its fifth generation, the new M5 will be…
Rivian has released approximate order invite dates to reservation holders for its new mid-sized Rivian R2 SUV.
Rivian recently started shipping its new R2, which also coincided with the availability of demo drives, order invites, and media reviews.
The R2 is basically a smaller version of the company’s flagship R1S SUV, with a few new features and in a much more space and energy efficient…
The Interior Department has made another illegal agreement with a gas company to drop development of cheap and clean offshore wind and instead focus on dirty, expensive gas, giving that company the better part of a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money while starving…
Tesla says it has started engineering tests of its first production Cybercab on public roads in Austin, marking the first time a customer-spec unit of the purpose-built robotaxi has been validated outside the factory.
But a video shared by the company shows the two-seater…
Jeep will not launch the Recon and Wagoneer S in Europe or the UK as planned. Instead, Jeep confirmed three new SUVs are on the way, including a new flagship SUV that will use Chinese tech.
Jeep shakes up EV plans in Europe
The Recon EV, Jeep’s Wrangler-like electric SUV, went on sale in the US and Canada last week. Jeep said it would initially launch in North America, followed by Europe, the…
