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F1 moves a step closer to fixing its 2026 hybrid problem

While lifting and coasting, the car’s brain tells the V6 to keep revving, and it siphons off 350 kW to the battery. But there’s another way the engine can recharge the battery that happens when the driver’s foot is still flat on the throttle. F1 calls this “super clipping,” and while it’s happening, the car’s...

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Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture

RV Tech, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and Rivian, has completed a successful winter test program, it said this morning. The partnership was created in 2024 when VW Group announced it would invest $5.8 billion in the American electric vehicle maker to gain access to Rivian’s expertise in vehicle software and electronic architecture. VW...

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An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude

Offered through 1996, this generation also marked the end of an experiment. Four-wheel steering, once the Prelude’s technological calling card, unceremoniously disappeared. It’s an omen of what is to come. A final shot over the bow When the fifth-generation Prelude arrived for 1997, its styling felt like a compromise between eras, a return to Honda’s...

VC Firm Lays Out Plan for Ceding Freeways to Self-Driving Cars

wired2 years ago1 year ago06 mins

By now, you’ve seen the renderings and heard the promises. Someday, robocars will dominate American roadways, each racing along just inches from its neighbors, safely under the control of a…

San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them

abc7news2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars. Placing cones on them disables the car and forces it…