Automotive

Highlighting the present and distant future, Buick has unveiled the Smart Pod concept. The car provides a futuristic vision of pure autonomy, in which occupants are more likely to enjoy a game on the big screen than actually take the wheel.

The Sprinter and Vito have long been the "Mercedes" of van life, underpinning many campers. With the new Citan, Mercedes is eager to get its smallest van in on the action. It recently showed two Citan micro-campers good for leisure and daily driving.

Hyundai has presented a "Concept Seven" electric SUV it says is an "innovative living space on wheels" for a post-driving future. As such, it's all about a modular interior that Hyundai says will be many things to many people.

Kia has found success strengthening its SUV design language, and if the new Concept EV9 is a guide, it will continue. The new concept SUV melds powerful surfaces and flared fenders into a natural EV choice for lovers of large, back-to-roots SUVs.

One by one, every automaker is adapting to the new EV reality. Subaru becomes the latest as it debuts the Solterra. A Subaru through and through, the SUV uses an electric version of Symmetrical AWD for over 200 miles of all-terrain/weather driving.

When Jeep announced an electric Wrangler, and the 4xe brand, heads turned. The benefits of electric motors off the pavement are easily understood by off-road enthusiasts, but are they apparent when combined with the legendary Jeep Wrangler?

Volta Trucks has reached another milestone in its plans to get purpose-built 16-tonne electric haulers onto city streets. Production of the first road-going Volta Zero prototypes has begun at a bespoke facility in Coventry, UK.

A new advance in EV research leverages an advanced cooling technology to take the heat out of the charging cable, allowing it to handle the type of current needed to charge up an electric car in under five minutes.

Strap in, petrolheads, I promise you've never seen a crankshaft remotely like this one before. The spec sheet and bizarrely organic-looking design of this 3-D printed Greek widowmaker are almost as wild a ride as the 3,000-horsepower beast itself.

At CES 2018, Honda debuted a prototype off-road rover designed to help out at construction sites, in agriculture, in search and rescue operations, and more. Now the second Autonomous Work Vehicle prototype has been put to work in New Mexico.

The commercial vehicle arm of auto giant Geely has revealed a concept semi truck called the Homtruck that's planned for production in early 2024, and boasts a powertrain that can run with swappable batteries, a range extender or as a methanol hybrid.

French company Gaussin is pushing hard on hydrogen-based long-haul trucking, and to prove it's ready to bang with the big boys, it's taking the first hydrogen race truck to the Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia next year for the ultimate torture test.