The 10 best vehicles Ars Technica drove in 2025

Of all the cars we've driven and reviewed this year, these are our picks.

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Or the car was smart enough to use it's GPS to know it was in your garage and you'd set the system configuration option to not auto-lock when in your garage?

Heck, that's what those ultrasonic parking assist and blind spot sensors are for, right? Take a ping off the door and walls, easy! (lol)

Where are you that daytime rates are lower than night time?

If the utility isn't buying midday solar back from residential installs at your distribution rate but instead your hourly bid solar rate for the region, you might as well zero the meter by charging your car rather than receiving a pittance for it. The value of residential solar at the meter varies wildly with the number of different schemes that have been implemented (and sunset) over the past ten years or more. Thus the value of battery-backing your home, even if most of the capacity is on wheels.