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Europe Wanted to Lead the World on EVs. Its Carmakers Can’t Keep Up

The lack of cheap EVs and the reliance on combustion engines is putting Europe’s plan to ban new petrol cars by 2035 at risk.

Jessica Bateman

WIRED World

It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health

Thomas Heatherwick

Roadblock

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank

Paresh Dave

Development Hell

The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs

Jeremy White

Y1K3S

Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets

Andy Greenberg

Bumper Cars

The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road

Carlton Reid

Auto Drive Style

Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla

Ben Oliver

Power Play

To Build Electric Cars, Jaguar Land Rover Had to Redesign the Factory

Alex Christian

Long-term partner

Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think

James Morris

New EV Era

Jaguar Finally Reveals Its All-Electric Type 00 After a Contentious Rebrand

Ben Oliver

Cat Out The Bag

Jaguar’s Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online

Jeremy White

just the beginning

Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn’t

Alistair Charlton

Total Recall

Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

Carlton Reid

Auto Assessment

The World’s Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry’s Worst Human Rights Appraisal

Carlton Reid

Follow That Car

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

WIRED Staff

Get a Grip

The Race to Create the Perfect EV Tire

James Morris

pick me up

Protesters Say Uber and Lyft Are Still Failing Their Blind Passengers

Boone Ashworth and Caroline Haskins

jamfest

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

Morgan Meaker

sharp sighted

A Rubberized Cybertruck Is Plowing Through European Pedestrian Safety Rules

Carlton Reid

right of way

Hurricane Helene Destroyed Roads. Here’s How to Rebuild—and Flood-Proof Them for Next Time

Aarian Marshall

Look No Hands

Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

Aarian Marshall

Up in the air

Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them

Parni Ray

export analysis

Proposed Ban Would Be a ‘Death Sentence’ for Chinese EVs in the US

Aarian Marshall and Zeyi Yang