For most of automotive history, a car’s capabilities were locked in the moment it left the factory. Adding a new feature meant installing new physical hardware. In 2026, that’s changing fundamentally, and it’s one of the defining shifts covered in our broader look at 2026 automotive trends. At its core, a software-defined vehicle (SDV) is […]
Roughly one in four new cars sold worldwide in 2025 was electric, and the International Energy Agency expects that global share to climb further in 2026. A genuine, accelerating EV boom by any global measure. Yet in the US specifically, EV sales have been sliding, with some reports showing US EV market share dropping from […]
Choosing between an electric, hybrid, or gas vehicle in 2026 requires unlearning some assumptions that were true just a year ago. The single biggest shift: the federal EV tax credit of up to $7,500 officially expired on September 30, 2025, and is no longer available for any 2026 vehicle purchase. That change alone has meaningfully […]
The automotive industry is navigating a genuinely unusual moment in 2026. One where electrification, software, and geopolitics are all reshaping the business simultaneously, sometimes pulling in opposite directions. New tariffs, shifting emissions regulations, and a cooling US EV market are forcing automakers to revisit plans they’d committed billions of dollars to just a few years […]
Choosing a small business idea in 2026 comes down to three practical questions. How much capital you actually have, what skills you already bring, and how quickly you need income to start flowing. Money matters less than most aspiring founders assume about 58% of entrepreneurs start with under $25,000, and roughly half of all small […]
Small business AI adoption has crossed a genuine tipping point in 2026, and it happened faster than any comparable technology shift in recent memory — broadband internet took small businesses years to widely adopt; AI has closed a similar gap in months. Adoption figures vary across surveys depending on exactly what’s being measured, ranging from […]
A genuinely massive shadow economy is operating right alongside America’s formal small business sector, and most of it doesn’t show up in official business registration statistics at all. More than a third of Americans now earn income through a side hustle, yet the overwhelming majority never take the step of registering it as a real […]
One in three US adults now say they plan to start a new business or side hustle within the next 12 months — a 94% jump from the previous year, according to a survey Intuit QuickBooks commissioned of more than 3,000 US adults in December 2025. That’s not a marginal shift; it’s one of the […]
Small business ownership is going through a genuine generational and technological shift this year, and the data from multiple major 2026 surveys tells a remarkably consistent story. Pulling together findings from Guidant Financial, Intuit QuickBooks, Paychex, Acrisure. And the International Council for Small Business, this roundup breaks down the trends actually shaping how small businesses […]
The average traveler now juggles roughly seven different apps across a single trip. A flight tracker, a maps app, a translation tool, something for bookings, a currency converter, and somewhere in the mix, hopefully something that actually helped plan the trip in the first place. Building on our earlier look at AI trip planning, this […]
Christchurch search interest has surged nearly 200% year-over-year, helping fuel 2026’s broader travel trends, and the South Island as a whole remains one of the most consistently spectacular road trip destinations anywhere in the world. Ten days is widely considered the sweet spot for a South Island trip — enough time to see the major […]
Bangkok holds the title of most searched and most booked city globally for 2026 travel, and spending even a few days in Thailand’s capital makes the appeal obvious: significant historical depth, one of the best street food scenes on the planet, and genuinely excellent value, all wrapped in a city that “doesn’t introduce itself politely” […]
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