Being from Detroit, I’m accustomed to dealing with unbearably cold winters. But I understand how annoying it can be for auto journalists and industry folks who have to travel every January to the frozen tundra of Michigan for the North American International Auto Show. Well, in what amounts to at least a temporary…
If you’re looking for an example of how far self-driving technology has to go before it’s ready to be adopted en masse, take my ride in one of Lyft’s first autonomous cars: On a demo ride earlier this month, the vehicle came across a bus that had seemingly stalled out. Rather than let the car figure out how to…
So much about Henrik Fisker’s EMotion concept unveiled at CES this year is both exciting and, for now at least, almost completely untested. Those eye-catching butterfly doors, for example? Fisker still has to figure out how to produce them at scale. He still, also, needs to get a factory. And then there’s the battery,…
In 2013, Audi debuted technology at the Consumer Electronics Show that allowed an A7 to navigate a parking garage and then back into a spot seamlessly. This year’s iteration of the conference showed the industry’s still trying to pursue more auto-parking aids.
Automakers are lining up to flood the market with a litany of new electric vehicles, but as many in the industry know, the currently tiny EV market isn’t going to grow without a serious boom in fast charging infrastructure. But it might be an easier problem to solve than most think.
I won’t hide my disgust when it comes to Las Vegas; I find it visually offensive. I look away in disgust at all these rubes, shipped in from their flyover states, dressed in their outlet mall clothes and relying on the cloak of night to hide their botched plastic surgery and stretched paychecks, all while acting like…
You get so much at CES these days: microchips, VR headsets, robots, gadgets for olds and desperate pleas for VC money. One thing you don’t often get is realism. But at this year’s tech show, auto and startup executives alike are tamping down expectations about when our autonomous, driverless robot car future will…
It wasn’t anywhere close to its splashy and controversial reveal at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but electric car startup Faraday Future still showed up this year’s tech conference. You just had to know where to find them.
Kia showed up to CES with the Niro electric crossover concept, which previews a production model that will go on sale later this year. According to the presentation, the Niro has a 238-mile range and charge up to 115 miles worth of juice in just 30 minutes.
Some companies introduce entirely new cars at CES, other companies are just in town to peddle smaller things, like components. Hyundai, meanwhile, was in Las Vegas on Monday just to announce the name of their next fuel cell car. It will be called Nexo. Nexo!
The sad reality of city driving is that getting there is only half the battle. You sit for an hour on I-35 wishing for the sweet release of death, hoping you’re on time. You made it! Until the fact that you have to find a parking space (and there isn’t one) makes you annoyingly late. Luckily, new navigation systems…
Introducing Toyota’s new body pod concept called the e-Palette at this year’s CES, the automaker’s president, Akio Toyoda, offered up a few ideas on how it could be utilized: parcel delivery, ride sharing, mobile e-commerce. Toyoda had one more: Burning Man! Yowza.
Plenty of companies are going to CES this year with big and flashy announcements of how they will “disrupt” things. Toyota is one of them, aiming to change up shopping with its new e-Palette concept. It’s an intriguing idea, but one that I could only see working out in places where street-side real estate isn’t…
On Sunday at CES, new Chinese-backed car startup Byton unveiled its first drivable prototype—an electric crossover with a screen for a dashboard that’s set to launch in late 2019. Afterward, Byton’s co-founder took a veiled shot at Tesla CEO Elon Musk in outlining how Byton was planning to avoid Tesla’s well-known…
The latest auto startup to make a splash at CES is Byton, and tonight the new company unveiled its first vehicle: an electric crossover-looking thing that will launch in 2019 and start at around $45,000, the companies co-founders said. It will also have what Byton described as the “world’s first coast-to-coast…
I (Erik here) have never been to Las Vegas, which I’m told is both kind of exhilarating in addition to being extremely bleak. Strangely, I’ve been told the same thing about CES, which I’ll be in Vegas to cover this year with Ryan Felton. Here’s the car stuff we’re excited about!
Panasonic has been on the fringes of the automotive industry for some time with various deals and partnerships, the biggest one being with Tesla and its Gigafactory. But it would appear the company is making its own plans, if this spy shot sent to us supposedly from next week’s CES venue is anything to go by.
Hyundai’s offering at this year’s CES seems to be yet another crossover, but this one will be a fuel cell vehicle with autonomous features. And Hyundai tapped some ex-Google and ex-Tesla people to do it. Yes, the concept is boring, but for an autonomous car maybe that’s fine? Let the normals have their driverless cars…
Faraday Future founder Jia Yueting has reportedly managed to suddenly raise $1 billion in funding for the company and will take over as CEO, following reports that Yueting had been blacklisted by the Chinese government and his company was edging towards bankruptcy. This all seems totally legitimate so far.
