Maybe it’s my instinctive distrust of bored billionaires treating the world as their playground, but I’m always dubious about Elon Musk’s various moonshot projects. He seems to be enjoying it all a little too much. Latest among his outlandish ideas was the concept of sending a…

Samsung has dropped a hint at its future direction, with its next play to get more involved in the electric car. The company announced it is to buy a stake in Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD which will initially let both companies “[strengthen] electric vehicle parts…

A simple data connection is going revolutionise our roads Forget smartphones. Cars are fast becoming the ultimate connected device, thanks to improved data access, traffic management in the cloud and intelligent in-car integration of myriad new features. To find out how cars are becoming increasingly connected,…

Much of the investment money for the technology has come from Russian backers. Last month in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin said he would promote Elon Musk’s Hyperloop technology, which aims to create vacuum tubes for the rapid transportation of people and goods. “He expressed big interest…

It’s taken a minute, but this is the year when Apple’s and Google’s in-car solutions for smartphone integration finally started to show up. You can now go out and buy a car that has support for CarPlay or Android Auto, plug in your phone, and drive…

Ford paid nearly $200,000 — well over MSRP — to own one of the first Tesla Model X CUVs to roll off the line, according to a report from Bloomberg. It’s common practice for automakers to buy competitors’ vehicles in order to drive them, measure them, and…

It’s May 2025, and you are headed to a business meeting on a blue-sky morning. The windshield’s electronic smart tint has kicked in to shield the sun’s glare so you can scan messages and the news stream on your heads-up display. Traffic is light—half the cars…