The Verge snapped some photos of the apocalyptic scene in the Big Apple yesterday — from amber skies to desolate streets. To stay updated, you can follow the EPA’s air quality monitoring tool AirNow. Its forecast for Thursday is still bad — not quite a Code Maroon (hopefully) but a Code Red for “unhealthy” air.
Photo Essay

I could not grab the windshield wiper because it was roped off and I’m a coward.

Demonstrators flood city streets ahead of a key United Nations climate summit with a clear message for Joe Biden: ‘end fossil fuels.’

It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history.







Overengineered arthouse tech from a tiny microbrand


VW resurrects its iconic microbus for an electric era

The G-Class is going electric

Confirmed: Ford’s first electric truck is a truck




30 police officers were there to monitor the scene

As seen from inside the Capitol building


Millions of acres are burning across the West Coast




Artists have turned boarded-up businesses into powerful Black Lives Matter art

Three electric motors, one combustion engine, and 1,700 horsepower

An electric car with joysticks instead of a steering wheel

The long-awaited EV, coming next year, will have 270 miles of range

A more sophisticated version of Zero’s flagship bike

Whether you like it or not

A real working car stuffed full of Sony tech


All the speed you’d expect from a Porsche, with zero emissions

Riding shotgun in the polarizing prototype

With electric longboards in the trunk

Coming to Europe in 2020 with over 200 miles of range


The LF-30 is a weird harbinger of Lexus’ electric future

The XC40 Recharge won’t blow people away or engender rapturous headlines like the Tesla Model 3 or the Porsche Taycan, but it may actually have more to say

The cube looks the same, but everything around it is new


Nickelodeon’s Creative Director of Toy Design, Freddy Tutiven, explains

Chinese giant Geely’s remaking of the British automaker seems to be going well

Frog Design is 50 years old today