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Snapchat is launching Plans, a new suite of features designed to help turn the plans already being made in group chats — everything from birthday celebrations to study sessions and weekend hangouts — into real life get-togethers without ever leaving the app.Plans lets users set event details, invite up to 200 friends with invitations adorned with dynamic Bitmoji that change as friends respond, and track RSVPs. Invites are sent via one-to-one chat and reminders are automatically sent to attendees before the scheduled event starts. A dedicated “My Plans” tab on user profiles lets you keep track of upcoming and past…

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. Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive’s automotive news roundup bringing you the biggest headlines from around the globe. The Downshift summarizes stories with a sentence or two, along with links for those who wish to dive deeper. Here’s what’s cooking on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. 🔊 A new episode of The Drivecast, The Drive’s weekly podcast, will go live later today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. 🏁 The rumor mill is churning with…

In America, we’re accustomed to excess, and that’s somewhat of what you get in Cadillac’s largest and longest SUV ever, the new Escalade IQL, which happens to be fully electric. Since its introduction, the new Escalade IQ and longer IQL variant have captivated many with being large and literally in ‘charge.’ Powering the new Cadillac Escalade IQL is the largest battery you can find in a consumer vehicle, a 205 kW unit that combines a couple of 400-volt units together for an 800-volt setup that energizes two motors for a total output of 750 horsepower and 785 lb-ft…

Photo: EVgo EVgo is adding more than 400 fast-charging stalls at grocery-anchored shopping centers across the US, giving EV drivers more places to plug in while they shop or grab a coffee. The chargers will be installed at properties owned or operated by Regency Centers, a name most shoppers probably won’t recognize because it isn’t a retail chain. Regency is the landlord and developer behind more than 480 shopping centers in the US – think suburban plazas built around supermarkets such as Publix, Kroger, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Safeway, and Albertsons, with restaurants, pharmacies, and other everyday businesses alongside them.…

This past spring, the world experienced a rare moment of collective joy and awe when NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since 1972, completed its historic lunar flyby. On April 6, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen flew farther from Earth than any humans before them. Now, as NASA prepares for the next Artemis mission and beyond, the space agency is working with IBM to give scientists new tools to study the Moon. On Thursday, the two organizations released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model. It’s an open-source AI system that’s available…

It’s 2026, and this isn’t my first launch control start in a powerful electric vehicle. The first in a vehicle with 1,139 max horsepower, to be sure, but I brace myself and don’t think twice about telling my drive partner to drop the hammer. As he does, I have just enough strength in my thumb to start the stopwatch on my iPhone as lateral forces shove me back into the seat. And, maybe, just quick enough reflexes to stop the timer again as the digital speedo blurs past 60 miles per hour. Base Trim Engine Electric Base Trim Transmission Single-speed…

The Toyota Camry going hybrid-only was already a landmark moment — we called it the most important car in the world when it happened, and the argument holds up. Affordable, clean energy still isn’t a solved problem, and fully electric vehicles remain a work in progress for most buyers. Too many automakers tried to leap straight from gasoline to battery-electric, skipping the hybrid middle ground that could actually move the needle on fuel consumption today. Toyota read the room differently — and now it has gone even further by making the RAV4 a hybrid-only model. It’s easy to underestimate what…

A BYD Fang Cheng Bao Bao 5 on display at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost NEVs accounted for 75.1% of passenger vehicle wholesale sales during September 1-6. Overall passenger vehicle retail sales fell 19% year-on-year to 210,000 units. China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) retail sales picked up at the start of September compared with the same period last month, though the broader auto market remained under pressure. Retail sales of passenger NEVs totaled 150,000 units during September 1-6, up 15% from the same period last month but down 3% year-on-year, according to data released Thursday by…

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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. The Volvo XC40 serves an important role in the company’s lineup. Technically it’s not the brand’s cheapest vehicle—the EX30 narrowly undercuts it by about $1,000—but it is the cheapest gas-powered one, and the third-best-selling nameplate the Swedish marque has going for it here in the States. The XC40 has also been around for a minute, with the first examples hitting dealers back in 2018. A refresh is in order, then, and that’s exactly what…