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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the better part of the past decade, you’re probably already aware that China has been aggressively subsidizing its domestic automobile industry. And while it has undeniably produced results, cracks have been appearing in the industry’s economic foundation for quite some time. It now appears they’re getting worse. According to Reuters, China’s largest automaker, BYD, took a hit to its profits last quarter for the first time in more than three years. In the same report that detailed its quarterly finances,…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The Porsche Macan Electric has barely been on sale a year, and it’s already entering 2026 with a few compelling improvements. Among them is an AI language model for Porsche’s Voice Pilot assistant, so it’s better at understanding you, as well as a higher max towing capacity of 5,500 pounds. But the one that caught our eye is a relatively lesser-known feature that could be useful in a pinch—literally. As part of the Macan Electric’s optional 3D Surround View system with Active Parking Support, the electric SUV is…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Last year, Porsche made some buzz when one of its development drivers told the media that “fake” EV gear shifts were essentially pointless. As we’ve learned from driving the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, the fact that something lacks practical value doesn’t necessarily make it superfluous. On the contrary, it can actually enhance the experience. Put another way, we kinda like fake gears in EVs when done properly. Porsche’s stance made sense from an engineering perspective. After all, each internal combustion gear shift is accompanied by a brief interruption…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. If you’re only a casual automotive industry observer, you’d be forgiven for believing that the electric vehicle (and everything associated with it) is effectively dead. But despite some very real financial headwinds, progress marches on, and according to J.D. Power, America is steadily improving both charger availability and reliability—and the latter is largely thanks to Tesla. Certainly, the administration and Congress moved swiftly to gut funding for National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) programs, but with local and state governments stepping up to help cover those shortfalls, few of…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. In just one run of its prototype GT XX, Mercedes-AMG shattered 25 EV records that, while a bit unusual, show us just how advanced the tech in these experimental machines really is. The Concept AMG GT XX lapped the famed high-speed test track in Nardò, Italy, for nearly eight continuous days. Yeah, you read that right. Along the way, it set the record for the greatest distance ever covered by an electric vehicle within 24 hours, as well as 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, and 168. The most…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. What’s more badass than a naturally aspirated, 7.3-liter V8 crate motor that makes 430 horsepower and 475 pound-feet of torque at the crank? How about a turnkey, supercharged version making more than double that? This 1,000-horsepower turnkey solution currently for sale on Ebay offers exactly that, for the princely sum of $39,000. According to the listing, it’s a product of Proformance Unlimited, a family-run business based out of Melbourne, Fla., that ships crate motors for just about everything. Several different Godzilla builds are listed on their site, but…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The best part of being an automotive journalist is that I’m constantly surrounded by people who share my passion for cars, racing, and all things on wheels. The worst part of being an automotive journalist is that, thanks to being surrounded by like-minded people, it can often feel like I’m living in a bubble with little input from, y’know, normal people. As a result, I purposely try to connect with people who are not into cars, and, to be honest, who know very little about them. The results…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. As electric cars continue to gain ground all over the world, one of the big questions facing the industry is how to best repurpose the batteries powering those vehicles after they’re retired. It’s a question that doesn’t have a single correct answer, and so a number of startups have emerged in recent years with their own proposals. Some automakers are considering how to tackle this problem, too, and a solution that Toyota has been working on collects all kinds of high-voltage batteries, regardless of chemistry and degradation, and…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. As Mercedes-Benz phases in its new generation of multi-energy platforms, the dedicated EQ lineup will be headed out the door. The process has already begun with the new compact CLA, which shares the same body between its gasoline- and battery-powered variants, and that same fate will befall each model line in the company’s portfolio. But until Mercedes is ready to launch a new flagship SUV, the EQS will continue to have a place in the company’s showrooms. Our spies caught this updated EQS SUV testing on public roads…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Governments across the world spend billions to encourage safe driving, but few are as successful as this Korean navigation app that’s rewarding caution in an exciting way. Tmap, the most popular app of its kind in South Korea, awards driving scores to users based on their in-car behavior. It claims to have prevented 31,366 traffic accidents over a three-year span, and 19 million drivers have participated in the trend so far. Seemingly, it’s working to rewire driver’s minds, helping them value safety over speed. The Korea Herald writes…