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The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Of all of the subjects that get us going here at The Drive, one of the top candidates has to be “unconscionably large amount of obscure vehicles and associated parts for sale in a field.” Oftentimes, we tend to encounter this, unsurprisingly, with classic Americana (are Crown Vics old enough to qualify as “classic” yet?) and, occasionally, we’ll come across something like a paradise for Porsche owners. But Jeremiah Freeman’s “CRX Farm” in Kansas is special, because…

Photo: rPlus Energies The US battery storage market just posted its biggest quarter ever, adding 20.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of new capacity in Q2 2026. The record quarter brought total battery storage installations for the first half of 2026 to 30.8 GWh – up 23% year over year – according to the new “US Energy Storage Market Outlook” from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Utility-scale batteries drove the record Nearly all the growth came from large grid batteries. Utility-scale projects accounted for about 18 GWh of Q2 installations, supported by seven gigawatt-hour-scale projects – four in…

Dark Matter is officially back on Apple TV, and its season 2 premiere picks up seven months after everything fell apart last season. We know Dark Matter Season 1 used up all the material that author Blake Crouch wrote in his original novel. In a way, that story was already over, though it left plenty unfinished for the people who are now displaced in its aftermath. Had Crouch signed away the rights and walked off, I’d have written off this season as a cash grab riding the first season’s success. Instead, he wrote every new episode alongside Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, pushing…

JMGO’s 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast — always an issue with projectors — by placing two separate physical apertures (irises) along different points of the internal optical path to control light scatter and brightness far more aggressively than a single iris can. It also promises to produce a very bright 6,500 ISO lumen image from its triple-laser light engine.Last year at IFA, 6,000 lumens from an…

Few motorcycle silhouettes carry as much instant recognition as the chopper. That long, low, stretched-out stance has been turning heads for decades — and it shows no sign of fading. The question has always been whether you can have that dramatic presence without sacrificing the reliability and everyday usability that keep a bike in regular rotation. One Japanese manufacturer has quietly been answering that question for years, building a chopper-style cruiser that delivers genuine style alongside genuine practicality. Choppers Offer A Look That Never Goes Out Of Style David Lundgren Unsplash The whole idea behind a chopper is pushing proportions…

UPDATE: 2026/08/31 17:45 EST BY SEAN MCMANUS Pontiac Is No Stranger To Rare Cars We added a section at the end with a few more rare Pontiacs from its prime muscle car era. Few corners of the collector car world generate as much excitement as genuinely rare American muscle — and the 1997 Pontiac Firebird SLP Firehawk LT4 sits near the top of that list. With only 29 confirmed examples ever built, this Corvette-engined Firebird represents one of the most intriguing what-ifs in GM history: what happens when a boutique performance shop stuffs a hand-assembled, race-derived V8 into an already…

German luxury sedans are often the most comfortable, occasionally the most powerful, and usually expensive to maintain. You’ve all heard that hundreds of times by now, though. Looking at a specific example, the BMW 3 Series can be fairly cheap on the used market; the 2021 model year currently has nine recalls that include problems like the starter motor corroding, overheating, and causing a fire, the rear-view camera malfunctioning, and more. If you don’t want to spend $14,345 on maintenance and repairs in the car’s first 10 years of service, then allow us to suggest an alternative. The 2021 Acura…

Android offers tons of options to keep your device secure and private; it’s well worth exploring them all. According to a 2025 study by the Pew Research Center, nearly 75% of Americans have experienced some form of online scam. These are becoming increasingly complex, as the spread of sophisticated AI tools have made online attacks more diverse, effective and harder to detect.  Vishing, for instance, has seen crooks using AI-powered deepfakes to mimic the voices of a victim’s loved ones to scam them over the phone. Meanwhile, malware attacks are more dangerous and adaptive than ever. And that’s not to mention…

Despite the huge power uplift, the GSE is priced on par with the current top-spec Corsa Electric Ultimate – just £50 separates the two after factoring in a £725 deposit contribution and the Government’s £1,500 Electric Car Grant. Inside, there’s a part-Alcantara steering wheel with yellow stitching, bespoke chequered seats with further yellow details, plus yellow seatbelts and aluminium pedals. There are some scratchy plastics on the doors and lower dash, but overall the hot hatch feels befitting of its price. You’ll also find a set of bespoke performance pages buried within the infotainment system, giving owners access to things…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Back in July, a new chain of gas stations called the Freedom Fuel Network popped up in the Northeast, seemingly out of nowhere, with extremely attractive prices. It seemed to have friends in high places right from the very start, with its first retail site promoted by the White House’s official X account, and President Donald Trump lauding the company for “stepping up” as “a VERY smart Retailer.” The federal government denied that it was subsidizing Freedom…