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Automotive The race for one of the automotive industry’s more closely watched annual honors is officially taking shape as the North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year awards have announced their Best of 2027 contenders. NACTOY jurors narrowed an original field of 56 new or substantially redesigned vehicles down to 25 models, giving us an interesting snapshot of where the new-car market is headed. This year’s group includes everything from traditional gasoline-powered pickups to hybrids, high-performance EVs, affordable electric vehicles, and a few completely new entries that could shake up their respective segments. The North…

Moving millions of tons of coal, sugar, and other bulk cargo is serious business, and decarbonizing that business presents a number of unique challenges – especially when loading and unloading. That’s what makes the new MV Yampu so interesting: it’s the world’s first self-loading and unloading bulk cargo vessel! Purpose-built by the maritime experts at CSL Group for aggregate and concrete giant Adbri, the MV Yampu is a groundbreaking 125 meter (~410 ft) vessel powered by a locomotive-style diesel-electric drive system backed by an immense, 131-ton 6,758 kWh marine battery system developed by BESS experts Wärtsilä and capable of putting out…

Focus isn’t the biggest feature to change with iOS 27, but it has some cool enhancements worth knowing. Christine Persaud for Engadget One of the best tools your iPhone offers to help you avoid distractions is Focus, which lets you control which alerts arrive at what times. It includes default modes like Work, Personal, Sleep and more, as well as the ability to create your own. For example, you might want to silence social media notifications while still getting pings for incoming messages from family members. To select a Focus mode, swipe down from the top-right of…

The Lexus RX is the luxury brand’s best-selling vehicle in America by a mile, while also holding the crown in other markets around the world. On the US market specifically, Lexus sold just over 80,000 units between January and August 2026, almost as many as the NX and TX combined. It’s shaping up to be a great year for RX sales figures, for sure, and the 2027 model is now just around the corner. Seeing that its flagship midsize SUV is doing great commercially, Toyota’s luxury division is sticking to what already works and keeping the updates fairly minimal on…

The Geely Galaxy 700 is an off-road plug-in hybrid SUV with 1,113 horsepower available, along with amphibious capability. It sounds like a concept car, but the automaker has officially opened pre-sales for its first off-road-focused SUV in China. And, according to Geely, with one hell of a positive reaction. For starters, the limited-production “Land Ark” launch edition, limited to 700 units, sold out almost instantly. Here in the US, we can only look on as the Chinese technology race reaches remarkable new heights. The Tech Specs Are As Hardcore As The Pre-Sales Numbers Geely Galaxy 700Geely The Geely Galaxy 700…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. At a time when the Ford F-150 Raptor is getting more affordable with a new base trim, the 2027 Chevy Silverado ZR2 is going upmarket, baby. The Bowtie brand is packing it full with snazzy features you’d normally find on a High Country luxury trim, plus an optional 6.6-liter V8 making 481 horsepower and, yeah, screens. All of that kicks the ZR2’s starting price up to $80,000—well, technically it’s $79,995, but you get the…

The Nissan N7 electric sedan. Credit: Dongfeng Nissan The current N7 went on sale in late April 2025 with a starting price of 119,900 yuan ($17,760). Monthly retail sales of the N7 have fallen to 928 in August from a peak of 10,148 in August 2025. Dongfeng Nissan, Nissan Motor’s joint venture in China, will launch the updated N7 electric sedan on September 22, seeking to revive a model whose aggressive pricing once shook China’s auto market. Local auto media outlet Yiche reported the plan on Thursday, saying the updated model is expected to see adjustments to its configurations. Dongfeng…

Toyota led US new EV sales growth last month with a refreshed lineup of electric SUVs. The Toyota bZ remains a top-selling EV in August Lower-priced models helped push new electric vehicle sales up 2.5% in August from the month prior, with around 78,895 units sold. That’s still down 46.9% from last August, when buyers were still rushing to claim the federal $7,500 EV tax credit, but there’s some good news. According to Cox Automotive’s August EV Market Monitor, new lower-priced electric models helped drive growth last month while narrowing the price gap with gas-powered vehicles even further. Advertisement -…

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies’ own documentation warned that it was starting a “doom loop” that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the “largest theft of labor in human history,” and that it made a “complete mockery of the idea of fair use.”Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht’s assertions. Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge…

Once upon a time, the Chevrolet Trax was something of a joke. Then a few years ago, Chevy saw fit to redesign the small crossover inside and out. To say it was a hit is an understatement – Trax is the best-selling subcompact SUV in America, and if these new spy shots are any indication, it will probably stay that way. If we were on the Honda HR-V design team, we’d be working overtime to find some new ideas. This Chevy is looking untouchable 2027 Chevrolet Trax Spy PhotoCarBuzz / Valnet As previously mentioned, the current Trax is a few…