I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 While America has too much bomb-grade plutonium and not enough reactor fuel, spending real money to burn 20 tons of the surplus, China is finishing a pair of 600-megawatt reactors on an island off Fujian built to do the opposite, make more plutonium than they burn Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 A US company just launched a satellite the size of a coffee mug running on radioactive hydrogen, the first commercial nuclear spacecraft ever to fly — a battery with no moving parts that keeps working for 20 years in craters where the Sun never rises Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 A 3,500-ton German machine named Mary just started spinning a 49-foot cutting wheel under Adelaide’s houses, working 24/7 with 20 specialists riding inside her — and on a good day she covers 33 feet Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 While Germany burns drones with a laser on a tracked robot and Britain squeezes a 50-kilowatt beam onto a destroyer, an American company just blinded two drones with what amounts to an extremely rude flashlight — running inside optical safety limits Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 A 40-year-old Canadian reactor cooks a cancer-fighting isotope inside its own core while still pushing 817 megawatts onto the grid, the same neutrons splitting uranium put to work breeding a drug that hunts tumor cells and starts decaying the moment it’s born Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 The strangest job an underwater drone has ever been handed: census-taker for the 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste Europe rolled off ships into the Atlantic, a robot mapping in 26 days what humans hadn’t looked at since the 1980s Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 NewsRead more → We asked Keanu Reeves to rank every iconic car he has ever driven on screen, from the John Wick Mustang to the station wagon in Bill and Ted, and he refused to put a single one below S-tier Olivia Richman · Jul 9, 2026 6:00pm ET A U.S. state may effectively ban Tesla’s Cybercab if recent legislation passes Dave McQuilling · Jul 8, 2026 4:46pm ET 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 Olivia Richman · Jul 6, 2026 8:00pm ET The brain researcher who built Nintendo’s Brain Age says there’s a type of driver quietly working their memory, attention and decision-making every single trip — and in America, barely anyone can join them anymore, because only 0.7% of new cars still offer it Olivia Richman · Jul 3, 2026 8:00pm ET Carmakers spent years cramming giant touchscreens into every dash and calling it the future, but drivers never wanted them, and now VW, Porsche and Hyundai are quietly bringing buttons back, because buyers will take the big screen and even the AI only if they get their physical knobs too Olivia Richman · Jul 1, 2026 6:00pm ET CarsRead more → I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 6:05pm ET While European drivers get a Corolla Cross that brakes and corners better in snow as standard, America gets the identical SUV with that mode switched off, the same rear motor already spinning underneath and only the software missing Dave McQuilling · Jul 7, 2026 11:37am ET 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 Luis Reyes · Jul 4, 2026 9:30am ET 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 Olivia Richman · Jul 3, 2026 6:30pm ET You’d think car colors would get more fun over time. A study of 22 million used cars says the opposite: gray grew sixfold since 1996, and the top color on American sports cars isn’t red Olivia Richman · Jul 2, 2026 7:30pm ET EnergyRead more → While America has too much bomb-grade plutonium and not enough reactor fuel, spending real money to burn 20 tons of the surplus, China is finishing a pair of 600-megawatt reactors on an island off Fujian built to do the opposite, make more plutonium than they burn Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 5:00pm ET A US company just launched a satellite the size of a coffee mug running on radioactive hydrogen, the first commercial nuclear spacecraft ever to fly — a battery with no moving parts that keeps working for 20 years in craters where the Sun never rises Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 3:30pm ET A 40-year-old Canadian reactor cooks a cancer-fighting isotope inside its own core while still pushing 817 megawatts onto the grid, the same neutrons splitting uranium put to work breeding a drug that hunts tumor cells and starts decaying the moment it’s born Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 11:00am ET While the green hydrogen industry hunts cheap solar and cheap grid deals, Australian engineers rebuilt the splitting machine around a kitchen sponge — and where today’s plants waste 13 kilowatt-hours per kilogram, theirs claims to waste 2.1 Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 8:00am ET A 17,000-ton press in South Korea that swallows ingots of hot steel heavy as 300 pickup trucks will forge the hearts of America’s next 10 nuclear reactors, seamless cans built 6,600 miles from the sites they’re going into — because no machine in the US can do it Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 6:30am ET EVsRead more → The Fiat Topolino is finally in the United States, but there’s a catch: You can’t drive it Olivia Richman · Jul 8, 2026 7:30pm ET The Slate Truck starts at $24,950 with no crank windows and barely anything else, but check every box and it hits $46,294, so I built the cheapest version you could actually live with and commute in Olivia Richman · Jul 8, 2026 6:00pm ET The US government just showed Polestar the door, so a 544-horsepower Swedish luxury crossover now sells for $39,300 and the single-motor version for less than a mid-trim Camry, cash discounts up to $25,000 that vanish July 31 Olivia Richman · Jul 6, 2026 6:30pm ET Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster Olivia Richman · Jun 30, 2026 6:30pm ET Slate reveals JUST how bare bones its trucks will be in order to be under $25K, including crank windows and no paint. At least Americans can finally afford an EV pickup Olivia Richman · Jun 27, 2026 6:00pm ET IndustryRead more → A 3,500-ton German machine named Mary just started spinning a 49-foot cutting wheel under Adelaide’s houses, working 24/7 with 20 specialists riding inside her — and on a good day she covers 33 feet Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 2:00pm ET While Germany burns drones with a laser on a tracked robot and Britain squeezes a 50-kilowatt beam onto a destroyer, an American company just blinded two drones with what amounts to an extremely rude flashlight — running inside optical safety limits Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 12:30pm ET The strangest job an underwater drone has ever been handed: census-taker for the 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste Europe rolled off ships into the Atlantic, a robot mapping in 26 days what humans hadn’t looked at since the 1980s Luis Reyes · Jul 11, 2026 9:30am ET A 1,680-ton German boring machine with a cutterhead over 28 feet across is being bolted together in a New Jersey trench to chew through rock so abrasive its cutters wear out every two days, on a route where 40 people work inside the machine Luis Reyes · Jul 10, 2026 5:00pm ET A US company just launched a 4,921-foot fence that sits on the seabed to kill underwater drones with no explosives and no torpedoes, and it will not say what the barrier is made of. Four days later the Pentagon asked industry for exactly that Luis Reyes · Jul 10, 2026 11:00am ET HybridsRead more → “Every hybrid we’ve ever owned, lied to us”: Edmunds reveals the reality of EPA rated mpg and it’s not pretty Olivia Richman · Jun 14, 2026 This Toyota Has 340 Horsepower, Hybrid Efficiency, and Every Premium Feature You’d Expect — and No One Is Buying It Dave McQuilling · May 9, 2026 It’s an Outback, It’s a Forester… No, It’s the New Toyota RAV4 Revealed at the Auto China Show Olivia Richman · Apr 24, 2026 Audi Has Spent Years Losing the Performance SUV War to BMW. New Spy Shots From the Nürburgring Suggest That’s About to Change Dave McQuilling · Apr 15, 2026 The Prius is selling so poorly, it could leave the United States market — and Toyota doesn’t really mind Olivia Richman · Apr 11, 2026 The US is tempted by Chinese EVs, but one of the UK’s best sellers shows they aren’t missing out Olivia Richman · Apr 8, 2026 PerformanceRead more → Gordon Murray just ran his new Le Mans GTR prototype around the Circuit de la Sarthe with Dario Franchitti driving, a longtail V12 with a six-speed manual, and all 24 being built are already sold before anyone outside the buyers has seen a price Olivia Richman · Jul 7, 2026 8:00pm ET Hennessey just revealed a 2,031-horsepower hypercar at Goodwood with something almost no hypercar offers anymore, a gated six-speed manual you shift by hand, and only 12 will ever be built, each starting at $2.64 million Olivia Richman · Jul 7, 2026 6:30pm ET Shelby just pushed the Ford F-150 Baja Raptor past 1,000 horsepower, out-muscling the Cybertruck — and the price lands at practically $200,000 for a pickup truck Olivia Richman · Jul 2, 2026 6:00pm ET Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster Olivia Richman · Jun 30, 2026 6:30pm ET Ferrari’s $600,000 electric car got panned as the ugliest six-figure car ever, yet pre-orders flew, and now we know why: Ferrari is reportedly telling clients to buy it if they want to keep their spot in line for the good cars Olivia Richman · Jun 20, 2026 8:00pm ET Reviews & Guides I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one Dave McQuilling · Jul 11, 2026 6:05pm ET Two tickets to the World Cup Final cost $33,698. The average used car in America costs $27,046. So here are five cars you could buy instead of watching one soccer game, from a Civic to a 480-horsepower Mustang Olivia Richman · Jun 16, 2026 9:00am ET Planning on car camping this summer? Here are a few things you’ll need Dave McQuilling · Jun 8, 2026 6:30pm ET My Dad Asked Why His BMW Still Has a Gas Cap When Newer Cars Don’t. I Write About Cars for a Living and Had No Idea — So I Looked Into Why Carmakers Quietly Killed the Cap, and Why BMW Didn’t Olivia Richman · May 31, 2026 5:00pm ET Carmakers Have Known About This Security Flaw Since 2011. Drivers Are Now Fixing It With $1 of Kitchen Foil Luis Reyes · May 15, 2026 10:41am ET
