Manufacturers respond with gigawatt-scale deployments, fast-start technology, and expanded production capacity. The global appetite for electricity has never been more insatiable, and at the heart of ...

Flush-style door handles and yoke-style steering wheels – both popularized by Tesla – are set to be banned in China starting in January 2027. China will ban yoke-style steering wheels effective ...

Anyone living in China hoping their next EV would come with a spaceship yoke instead of an old fashioned steering wheel just got some bad news. New government safety rules mean half wheels will be ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Takashi Ayoma / Getty, Antonio Calanni / AP Formula 1’s car design revolution for 2026 is the biggest in a generation. Not only are the chassis designs ...

The hottest engine in the world is minuscule, reaches seemingly impossible efficiencies and could approximate nature’s tiniest machines. They used an electric field to trap and levitate the bead in a ...

What if I told you there’s a prototype German engine that could enable travel between galaxies, in futuristic spaceships that break the laws of physics with the phenomenon of “time warping”? It sounds ...

The 2025 Formula 1 season has begun in incredible competitive fashion as four-time defending world champion Max Verstappen no longer owns the sport's top spot. Verstappen and Red Bull have taken a ...

Mercedes wants to adopt a bold steer-by-wire yoke steering wheel, pushing innovation further than Tesla. Here’s how the new system works—and why it’s a game changer. When Tesla put crazy yoke steering ...

Mercedes is working on a new steer-by-wire system set to arrive in production vehicles by 2026, accompanied by a yoke-shaped steering wheel. Joining the likes of Tesla, General Motors, Geely, Toyota, ...