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In the 1970s, moose were enough of a problem for drivers in Sweden that someone devised a test to see how cars dealt with evading a sudden, massive obstacle. The test, now standardized, is performed at 45 mph on a dry road surface using cones to force the vehicle into the oncoming lane, and back again. Thus, the “moose test” was born. But to better understand what happens when a vehicle fails to evade that obstacle, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute developed a moose crash test dummy. Considering Volvo’s legacy of vehicle safety, it should come as…

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 push for autonomous driving has a strong profit motivation. From taxis to trucking, corporate executives dream of the day that they’ll be able to replace professional drivers with sensors and code to save money and increase vehicle uptime. Now, that mentality appears to be moving off the street and into the warehouse. General Motors is now trying to patent an autonomous forklift, potentially putting certified operators out of work. A patent application from…

The all-electric Dodge Charger Daytona may not have been a stunning sales success with either EV fans or the Mopar faithful, but that didn’t change the fact that it’s one of the most competent straight-line performance cars ever built – and now, Hallmark is making it easier than ever to park one under a Christmas tree. Powered by an all-wheel-drive electric powertrain delivering up to 670 hp and 627 lb-ft of torque, the Dodge Charger Daytona rockets itself from 0-60 mph in a scant 3.3 seconds – barely a footnote in the annals of battery-powered performance these days, but rare air that…

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, were both more complicated than anyone expected.In the next episode of Version History, David Pierce is joined by The Verge’s Adi Robertson and tech journalist David Imel to figure out why OLPC didn’t work, whether there’s anything to learn from the XO-1’s innovative design, and…

Pickup trucks are expensive. The way Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis justify the prices of their new trucks is by packing as much new technology, luxury, and power between the bumpers – often copying each other’s homework in the process. However, there isn’t much more the rhinestone-studded luxury variants can do on a job site that the bare-bones workhorses can’t. American truckmakers have increasingly expanded their lineups to build pricey, off-road-capable versions of their pickups. The Ford F-150 Raptor was alone on the dunes for over a decade, ushering in an era of turn-key monster trucks available straight from the…

It’s always best to perform a shutdown, unless you can’t. Suwan Waenlor/Shutterstock If you’ve ever experienced a completely frozen computer, or even just had to abruptly rush away from it and wanted to shut it down before leaving, you’ve probably held down your PC’s power button. Of course, manually shutting down or restarting your PC occasionally can be beneficial, but only when done via the proper procedure. If your computer isn’t prepared to shut down, you risk permanently damaging it. Sometimes, cutting power to your PC is an occurrence that can’t be helped, like in the…

Carbon fiber is one of the most coveted materials in the hypercar world, but for most of the segment’s history it came in exactly one color: black. That changed when Koenigsegg engineered an entirely new process to turn those dark strands into something that shimmered like crushed diamonds in sunlight — and then used it to build just two cars. The result was the Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, a machine that remains one of the most visually distinctive hypercars ever conceived, and one of the rarest. Koenigsegg’s Proprietary Diamond Weave White carbon fiber might not sound all that remarkable today, given…

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. Technologies like CAD and 3D printing make it a lot easier to design and fabricate custom car parts, respectively, and having an accurate digital model of the car you’re working on makes things even easier. These days, 3D scanners are readily available to do just that, and this video demonstrates how they work using a very humble test subject. John Volk is well known in the custom BMW community for making turbo-ready exhaust manifolds,…

A Chery Jetour T1 on display at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost. The EU links treatment of British goods to closer trade policy alignment and suggests London join its customs union. The UK seeks to preserve its place in European supply chains while attracting Chinese investment in domestic car plants. The European Union has urged Britain to raise tariffs on Chinese EV imports and align its trade policy more closely with the bloc, warning that key British exports could otherwise face “made in Europe” barriers. Brussels told London that joining the EU customs union would be…

Image: Geely Auto Group Geely says its new AI-powered fast charging system can reverse some of the battery damage caused by fast charging, using micro-pulse currents to add up to 20% more cycle life. Charging a car in under 5 minutes is great, but not if it wears the battery out years early. Geely claims that its ‘Smart Charging’ addresses that and it is using something that sounds like sorcery. A 2.25 MW charger was only half the story Earlier this week, we reported that Geely one-upped BYD with a 2.2 MW charger capable of 4-minute EV charges. The full…