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Building on its nearly 10-year history, Mercedes-Benz secured first rights to ProLogium’s latest Gen4 solid-state EV battery cells. Mercedes gets priority for Prologium solid-state batteries Battery tech is already light-years ahead of where it was just a few years ago. The next generation of batteries will be even safer and more efficient. Solid-state batteries are widely considered the gold standard for next-gen EV batteries, promising drastically higher energy density, enabling faster charging times, longer driving ranges, and superior safety. Mercedes-Benz continues advancing the new battery after announcing a joint test agreement with ProLogium on Thursday. Advertisement – scroll for more…

Even though the affordable end of the car market seems to have shrunk, there are still a handful of vehicles that just barely come within $1,000 of $25,000, even with destination charge. One of those few has been the Chevy Trailblazer, and it looks like it’s still going to manage that feat for 2027. Not only that, but it seems as though it’ll still beat the Subaru Crosstrek on all-wheel-drive pricing, if not its lower-riding twin, the Impreza. 2024 – 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazer 2nd Gen (C1) Facelift SUVChevrolet Chevy Kept The Price Increase Low The pricing for the 2027 Trailblazer…

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. Soon, you won’t be able to buy an airbag for your car or truck on eBay. And what’s more, airbag-related parts like inflators and steering wheel covers will also be off-limits. The decision stems from concerns about faulty or counterfeit parts that could put people’s lives at risk. However, some pre-approved sellers can continue to sell related parts like control units, crash sensors, diagnostic modules, and passenger sensors. eBay’s statement reads, “Effective September 24,…

Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that “Copilot Plus PCs” were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that’d have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dead.Kedar Kondap, Qualcomm’s SVP of compute and gaming, seemed to agree that the brand’s time is done, telling Bowden that computers that offer the same experiences will “probably” not use that branding anymore.It’s not surprising to me that Microsoft and its partners would back away. Back in 2024, smart minds pointed…

Participants mark the completion of BYD’s 2,000th highway flash-charging station on September 24, 2026, about 3 months ahead of its year-end target. Credit: BYD BYD met its full-year target for highway flash charging stations ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday travel rush. The company had built 10,000 flash charging stations by late August, with its overall full-year target still at 20,000. BYD (HKEX: 1211) has completed its 2,000th highway flash charging station in China, meeting its construction target about 3 months ahead of the original year-end deadline and before the upcoming holiday travel rush. BYD announced the…

Meta’s newest smart glasses are an iterative, expensive update. Meta Meta announced a slew of new smart glasses at Meta Connect 2026, including its first camera-free options, but the company’s Ray-Ban Meta models remain the flagship. The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 carry over many of the improvements introduced in smaller updates over the last year, like the more prescription-friendly Ray-Ban Meta Optics or the affordable Meta Glasses, with new features that mostly rely on software rather than reinvented hardware. Other than new colors and frame options, it’s hard to tell how the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3…

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, the Subaru WRX STI, and the Audi Sport Quattro are often treated as the starting points of their manufacturers’ performance legacies. In reality, each was the product of years of experimentation, competition, and engineering carried out by less celebrated machines. During the golden age of homologation specials, manufacturers had to build road-going versions of increasingly specialized cars simply to qualify their machinery for competition. While some of these efforts became household names, others quietly disappeared from the spotlight, despite laying much of the technological and motorsport groundwork that made the legends possible. The Rally Legends Were…

Being a one-car family works great right up until the moment two people need to be in two different places. Maybe your spouse took the car to work, but you need to grab groceries. Maybe you’ve got to pick up a kid from daycare. Perhaps you’re meeting a friend for coffee, heading to the gym, or just running some mundane errand that happens to require going a few miles across town. Those are the moments when a second car starts sounding awfully convenient. But before dropping $20,000, $30,000, or considerably more on another automobile, I’d suggest asking a slightly different…

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 automotive physics sandbox that’s been corralling more and more players on PC, BeamNG.drive, will finally hit PlayStation 5 on October 19. The team behind the game announced the release date today with a new trailer shown below, showcasing the range of experiences it offers—and the range of vehicles players are free to destroy. If you don’t know the score on BeamNG.drive, it’s based around a sophisticated soft-body physics simulation model that, for many…

The 2027 Nissan Sentra is on dealer lots now with confirmed VIN-specific listings at Nissan dealers and pricing confirmed by Edmunds across the full trim lineup. Multiple confirmed S trim units are on the lot at $24,695 MSRP each with specific stock numbers, and Edmunds places the S with destination at $24,560 to $25,195 depending on market , making the 2027 Sentra one of the most affordable new sedans available anywhere in the United States with safety technology included as standard. Edmunds confirms the full 2027 Sentra range: S at $25,195 with destination, SV at approximately $26,505 to…