Current Classics: Rolls-Royce Phantom V gets even smoother and quieter

  • June 21, 2025
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The electric restomod experts at Lunaz have turned their talents towards the classic Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine – and the result is exactly the kind of smooth, quiet, and luxurious ride RR’s founders would have built. Rolls-Royce’ founders dedicated their engineering talents to developing cars that were smooth, quiet, and adequately powerful – and they spared no […]

Fortescue Infinity Train electric locomotive never needs fuel or charging

  • June 21, 2025
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Fortescue has taken the wraps off a prototype of its proposed “Infinity Train” electric locomotive, making the 1,100 km (about 685 miles) trip from Perth to the Pilbara and marking a major milestone in the decarbonization of the company’s heavy haul operations. Co-developed with the locomotive experts at Downer Group, Fortescue revealed its concept for […]

Tesla’s former head of AI warns against believing that self-driving is solved

  • June 21, 2025
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Tesla’s former head of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, who worked on the automaker’s self-driving effort until 2022, warns against believing that self-driving is solved, and fully autonomous vehicles are happening soon. Karpathy is a very respected leader in the field of artificial intelligence. In 2017, Musk poached him from OpenAI and he quickly became the […]

How regime change in Iran could affect global oil prices

  • June 21, 2025
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Senior Israeli officials said this week that their military campaign against Iran could trigger the fall of the regime, an event that would have enormous implications for the global oil market. The oil market has reacted with remarkable restraint as Israel bombed the third-largest crude producer in OPEC for eight straight days, with no clear […]

Why electricity prices are surging for U.S. households

  • June 21, 2025
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Kilito Chan | Moment | Getty Images Electricity prices are rising quickly for U.S. households, even as overall inflation has cooled. Electricity prices rose 4.5% in the past year, according to the consumer price index for May 2025 — nearly double the inflation rate for all goods and services. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated […]

The ticket bot cometh: city is recording drivers that AI says are bad

  • June 21, 2025
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In a high-tech move that we can all get behind and isn’t dystopian at all, the City of Barcelona is feeding camera data from its city buses into an advanced AI, but they swear they’re not using the footage to to issue tickets to bad drivers. Yet. Barcelona and its Ring Roads Low Emission Zone […]