Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Many plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) offer a one-pedal driving technique. This unique PHEV and EV benefit provides the ability to stop and go using only the ...

Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. In the early days of motoring, cars didn’t have the standardized three pedals, ...

One-pedal driving is a feature on some electric vehicles where, under most circumstances, you use only the accelerator pedal to both speed up and slow down. When activated, the brake pedal only comes ...

It can boost range and help save your brakes, but it’s also a feature with wildly different approaches depending on the automaker and customer preferences. When my dad taught me and my siblings to ...

Progress is often something that requires learning and adjustment. When the world switched from straight-cut gears to modern synchromesh transmissions, drivers had to eliminate the habit of double ...

Electric cars are similar to combustion-powered cars in some ways, but very different in others. One key difference is an electric car’s regenerative braking system, which uses the electric motor to ...

A clutch of Chinese startups are accelerating efforts to get autonomous vehicles onto roads in the world’s biggest auto market, a country their American peers from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo to General ...

One of the niftier aspects of electric cars is that they eschew the need for multi-speed transmissions, instead leveraging an electric motor's instant torque that affords full and immediate ...