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We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. REI is deeply discounting a bunch of great gear that you could take overlanding or use for trackside tailgating. The pop-up sun shelters caught my eye first, but then I realized Yakima roof tents are going for great prices as the retailer is clearing out discontinued models. Looks like a good chance to score a deal on a brand-new RTT. Yakima SkyRise Rooftop Tent ($500 Off) See It Yakima…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. As much as it pains me to say it, I’ve had my fill of concept cars. These days, I want to see vehicles that could actually exist and improve people’s lives, be it through driving enjoyment, genius practicality, or refreshing design. Back in January of last year, Kia shared a vision of a line of modular utility vehicles built on an electric skateboard platform. It’s the sort of thing so many companies have promised, but few have delivered. Credit to Kia though—this wasn’t just a pie-in-the-sky dream, because…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. As of July 31st, owners of the Lucid Air electric sedan are gaining access to access Tesla’s vast network of Supercharger stations, adding more than 30,000 new options for existing owners. But there’s a catch—Lucid’s surprisingly good and (and also surprisingly affordable) offering will be limited to just 50 kW of throughput. Forget Air; think water, then freeze it, because that’s positively glacial. “Using this solution, the Air can charge at up to 50 kW and gain up to 200 miles of range per hour of charging, giving…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. One of the first things that hits you about the EV experience is its relative smoothness, compared to internal-combustion cars, with their vibrations and noise. You might assume that these attributes would make EVs more comfortable for those who tend to get carsick, but research has found that the opposite is in fact true. Electric vehicles can exacerbate sensations of motion sickness in passengers, and science tells us why. It’s more or less the same reason why you never hear about drivers getting carsick. If you’re driving a…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Rental car company Hertz’s recent use of AI-powered scanners to inspect cars before and after rentals has been getting plenty of attention lately. A reader wrote into The Drive to tell us about their experience renting from Hertz’s Atlanta airport location, and other similar stories have been making the rounds as well. They all seem to share a few things in common: A customer rents a vehicle from Hertz, and upon return, the scanner finds an insignificant blemish on the vehicle, leading to unexpectedly high charges that are…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Every car company is still scrambling to figure out what to do with the rapidly changing import tariff situation in America. But Volvo might be able to salvage a suboptimal situation. The Swedish company has a huge factory in South Carolina that was supposed to be all-in on EVs, but is currently running at minimal capacity. Sounds like the perfect place to start cranking out the Volvos people actually buy here. A report from Automotive News, citing “two people familiar with the [not public] plan,” says Volvo will…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. You hear it all the time: the obesity epidemic isn’t limited to human beings. Cars—especially EVs—are too big and too heavy, to the point where they’re endangering our infrastructure. So when a video of a 7,173-pound Rivian R1T absolutely obliterating a highway safety barrier went viral, it was no surprise at all that the resulting commentary focused on its gargantuan weight. But is that really the whole story? Of course not. That’s the whole point of a tease, right? The reality is, weight alone can’t explain it. Generally…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Ever since Android Auto and Apple CarPlay became commonplace, there’s been a quiet war going on between automakers and software companies over control of your in-dash navigation and entertainment experience. Today, Rivian‘s trying something we haven’t seen in the space yet: Running Google Maps, but with a uniquely Rivian skin. Rivian’s native navigation has been the subject of quite a few complaint threads on Reddit and elsewhere—this should be a welcome update for owners. This new setup, simply called Rivian Navigation with Google Maps, essentially builds some Rivian…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Natural rubber is a wonder material. Few discoveries or innovations come close to its impact on manufacturing, and the car industry is just one of many that depend on it for critical components, such as gaskets, seals, and tires. There’s just one problem: It cracks, and once that happens, it’s not good for much. That’s why researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences started tooling around with natural rubber here recently to see if they could make it more durable. And what do you know,…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Cadillac Global Vice President John Roth delivered a business update today, reiterating the brand’s commitment to being a luxury EV leader by 2030, but also confirming that its pledge to have a fully electric lineup within five years has been abandoned. He also shared some insights on the state of demand for electric cars, specifically as it relates to luxury vehicles. Cadillac has been on an aggressive revitalization plan spanning 2015 to 2030, with the goal of improving the customer experience through a more polished dealership network (there…