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How Alex Taylor’s Dodge Challenger Lost 500 Pounds

Marc UrbanoCar and Driver From the November 2021 issue of Car and Driver. Alex Taylor started drag racing at 16. Now 24, she grew up around cars at her parents’ hot-rod shop in Booneville, Arkansas, and still uses it as a home base for her automotive YouTube channel, Riding with Alex Taylor. While the shop […]

China’s Power Crunch Exposes Tensions Ahead of Key U.N. Climate Summit

Renewable energy in inland China sometimes generates more electricity than nearby consumers can use, but then at other times produces too little. Just five years ago, three inland regions that create abundant solar and wind energy power — sparsely populated Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Gansu — were wasting up to two-fifths of that power. To […]

2021 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery Plus Is a Base Hit

From the November 2021 issue of Car and Driver. What’s the difference? It’s the question buyers face when sifting through a car’s various models. For a car like the Porsche 911, spending more money yields an obvious improvement in handling, appearance, and engine character. But when it comes to the $87,030 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery […]

Biden Administration to Restore Climate Criteria to Landmark Environmental Law

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced that it would restore climate change protections to the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, which former President Donald J. Trump had weakened in an effort to speed the approval of projects like mines, pipelines, dams and highways. The proposed changes would require the […]

Best Peloton alternative 2021: Top indoor smart bikes

Indoor exercise bikes aren’t new. They’re just surging in popularity — partly because they’re smarter and internet-connected now, and because of viral ads plastered all over Instagram from companies such as Peloton. Not to mention that many people have been taking live classes online because of the pandemic.  Peloton, which went public in 2019, is […]