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The AI-designed car is taking shape

2026-04-27T07:18:52-04:00

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch.

Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned into 3D models by hand, some dying in the digital world, others sculpted into clay to better visualize lines and profiles. That's just the beginning of a design and development process that often takes a half-decade or more.

That means many new cars hitting dealerships this summer were first sketched in 2020 or 2021, initiatives kicked off when alternative fuel incentives were widesprea …

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All the wrong EVs are getting canceled

2026-04-15T09:00:00-04:00

A Tesla Cybertruck gleaming in the lot of the Tesla showroom in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, on March 29, 2025. | Photo by Simone Lueck / The Verge

These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry - and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are on an EV murder spree, killing a host of promising new models. The EV graveyard grows bigger by the minute.

And unfortunately, as is often the case, much of the focus seems to be on affordable models that had the potential to attract new customers. Meanwhile, ugly EVs that cost too much and do nothing to move the needle on EV adoption continue to darken our highways.

First, the cheap ones whose bodies have not yet gone cold. The Volvo EX30, a …

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The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars for a fraction of the cost

2026-03-05T13:06:12-05:00

When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete.

It hasn't worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, seemingly spooked by technical hurdles and tepid response from its fanatical customers. Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model, with the CEO saying the brand's customers have almost "zero interest" …

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America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater

2026-02-25T09:21:39-05:00

Traffic moves along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles in February of 2026. | Apu Gomes/Getty Images

For decades, America's auto industry was the envy of the world, driven by mass production, the rise of Detroit's Big Three automakers, and the iconic stylings of the 1950s and '60s.

Then, through a series of blunders and missteps, things started to unravel. There was the fuel crisis of the 1970s, which led to an influx of Japanese imports that bested Detroit in fuel savings and reliability. And then there were various global financial collapses throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and a significant decline in automotive quality as the Big Three continued to push bigger and more expensive vehicles, at the expense of road safety and global …

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Cadillac and Chevy are getting native Apple Music

2025-12-15T12:54:08-05:00

General Motors is adding native Apple Music to the infotainment systems of select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, the company announced today. The news comes as the automaker is racing to add more native app experiences to some of its vehicles to make up for the absence of popular phone mirroring services like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Apple Music will arrive in 2025 or newer Chevy and Cadillac models through an over-the-air software update. The update is being made available through GM's OnStar Basics package, which comes standard on all 2025 and newer vehicles at no additional cost for eight years. Eligible models i …

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Anyone want to buy a car that drives itself?

2026-04-10T12:18:45-04:00

Earlier this year, a mysterious new company called Tensor announced itself to the world by claiming it would be the first to sell fully autonomous vehicles to customers at scale. The news didn't make much of a splash. No one had ever heard of Tensor, so it was the kind of announcement easy to dismiss as vaporware. But the idea was not unfamiliar. In fact, some of the world's biggest companies are interested in selling driverless cars to individual customers. After all, if you can already hail a fully autonomous vehicle, why not own one too?

But it won't be easy. The technological and legal hurdles are immense. Today's robotaxis are restrict …

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‘Eyes-off driving’ is coming, and we’re so not ready

2025-11-03T16:34:45-05:00

This could be you in the near future, bingeing The White Lotus while your Cadillac Escalade handles the driving. But what happens when the car makes a mistake? | Image: GM

Last month, General Motors added its name to the growing list of automakers who are pursuing a novel type of partially automated technology called "eyes-off driving." What they didn't do, though, is provide a thorough description of how they'll take responsibility when something goes wrong.

Not to be confused with the type of "eyes-off" distracted driving that many drivers seem to be practicing these days, GM's system would be a step toward the automaker's ultimate goal of selling privately owned, fully autonomous cars. Some GM-produced cars already include the company's Super Cruise system, which allows drivers to take their hands off the …

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GM isn’t ready to rip off the CarPlay/Android Auto band-aid quite yet

2025-10-27T14:27:00-04:00

Last week, General Motors CEO Mary Barra caused a stir when she said that the company would eventually kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its gas cars. The company had already successfully removed phone mirroring capabilities from most of its electric vehicles, and now it was plotting how to drop support from its internal combustion engine vehicles too.

But today, the company is clarifying that this won’t happen overnight.

“We are not making any changes to existing vehicles,” Malorie Lucich, a spokesperson for GM, said in a statement. “If your car supports Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, that will continue. Both will remain available in all GM gas-powered vehicles for the foreseeable future. As we advance toward our centralized computing platform, we’ll gradually move to a better, more deeply integrated experience — a direction the broader industry is taking as vehicles become more software-defined. This will happen over time, not overnight. We value our collaboration with Apple and Google and remain focused on delivering experiences customers love.”

(The statement was originally provided to MacRumors.)

On the Decoder podcast, Barra seemed to suggest that the removal would happen as new models were refreshed. “As we move forward with each new vehicle and major new vehicle launch, I think you’re going to see us consistent on that,” she said.

Now it seems like it won’t happen until GM is ready to roll out the new centralized vehicle computing platform it announced last week. That system, which reduces the number of control modules and improves the ability for over-the-air software updates, is set to make its debut on the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028, before moving on to the automaker’s gas lineup.

GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs

2025-10-23T16:29:37-04:00

GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra.

In a Decoder interview with The Verge's Nilay Patel, published Wednesday, Barra confirmed GM will eventually end support of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on both gas-powered and electric cars. The timing is unclear, but Barra pointed to a major rollout of what the company is calling a new centralized computing platform, set to launch in 2028, that will involve eventually transitioning its entire lineup to a unified in-car experience.

In place of phone projection, GM is working to u …

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GM says hands-free, eyes-off driving is coming to Escalade IQ in 2028

2025-10-22T11:21:50-04:00

A vehicle is welded by robot arms as it goes through the assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant in Lansing, Michigan. | Photo: Getty Images

General Motors may be shrinking its electric vehicle production, but the automaker wants investors to know its still committed to future technologies like automated driving, software-defined vehicles, and AI voice assistants. Today, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a string of new features coming to the company's brands, like Cadillac and Chevy, that she said will help "define the next chapter" of America's biggest automaker.

The news comes after GM said it would take a $1.6 billion loss related to its planned rollout of EVs. The automaker attributed the loss to the expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, which was eliminated as part of …

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