Much real electric vehicle innovation has little to do with the motor or battery technology inside. Technical breakthroughs don’t mean much if the primary conceptual narrative is stuck in a mindset from Henry Ford days. Narratives beneath the surface It’s all too easy to think of electric vehicles simply as newer-tech versions of their century-old internal combustion engine counterparts – just with a different...

At its huge facility in the Philippines, Byrnes Motor Trust Restoration Inc. is rethinking the business model for restoring old cars – at scale Restoring classic cars – a strange kettle of fish Classic car collecting and the parallel feeder-vein restoration is a singularly strange phenomenon, with facets reaching out into very different dimensions of human endeavour and ambition. It is a field tugged...