The engineer explains how recreating a vital component made all the difference. To many auto enthusiasts, “high-performance electric car” is an oxymoron like ‘jumbo shrimp,’ ‘humble brag’ or ‘open ...

Stephen Wallis reflects on his achievement with his speedy The Beast.

Condensation and cold combine to create that layer of ice on car windshields in winter. Tomasz Sienicki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA If you live somewhere that gets cold in the winter, you’ve probably ...

Mechanical engineer and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes answers the internet's automotive questions. Why aren't solar powered cars a thing yet? How do self-driving cars see? How can Teslas crash when ...

Google, the company that previous said it "won't build a car," has hired Robert Rose, engineering manager at Tesla, to work at Google Robotics. At Tesla, he led the Tesla Autopilot group and its ...

Legendary race car engineer Steve Nichols has come out of retirement to launch a new supercar under his own name. Revealed on Wednesday, the Nichols N1A tips the scales at less than 2,000 pounds and ...

Munro Associates lead engineer Carl Crittenden not only disassembles new cars to see what makes them tick: he also reassembles old cars to make them like new again. As a member of the classic car ...

Swiss-born German race engineer for the car of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team driver Esteban Ocon for the 2025 season, Laura K. Müller didn’t set out to become a motorsport engineer. In fact, she didn’t even ...

As recently as 2022, Tesla’s Cybertruck development program was struggling with basic engineering issues that impact all new vehicles, leaked internal documents show. While some aspects of the ...

6-20-16 update: Iowa State’s Formula SAE Team faced plenty of engineering challenges this racing season: manufacturing mistakes, Plan B’s, blown parts, overheating and long nights thrashing away in ...

It was the sound that made Blake Hinsey fall in love with motor racing. Blake first heard it when he was seventeen. He and his father traveled from their Dallas home to MotorSport Ranch, in Cresson, ...