The Honda Saloon concept EV sports gull-wing doors and more LEDs than you can count. Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Honda is finally getting serious about EVs. At CES 2024, it announced plans to launch a line of them called the 0 Series starting in 2026, and it revealed the first two models in the … Read more
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron picked Renew Europe Group President Stéphane Séjourné as France’s new foreign minister, the French presidency announced Thursday, in a widely expected government reshuffle. Séjourné’s appointment is likely to have big repercussions for European centrists ahead of the European election in June. The 38-year-old is a key operator in the Macron galaxy, … Read more
VinFast VinFast has had a rocky start with its VF 8 electric SUV, but the Vietnamese automaker is pushing ahead with plans for more models. At CES 2024, it unveiled an electric pickup truck concept, and confirmed that the smaller VF 3 will be available globally. The VF 3 was unveiled in June 2023, but … Read more
Lamborghini If you have a fast car, the only place to let it loose is a racetrack. And because being able to buy a fast car doesn’t automatically imbue you with the driving skills to get the most out of it, you’ll probably need some coaching as well. At CES 2024, Lamborghini unveiled a high-tech … Read more
Nick Mokey / Digital Trends While its earthbound automotive divisions have been stewing up hydrogen from sewage and developing modular vans, Hyundai Motor Group’s (HMG) advanced air mobility company, Supernal, has had some lofty plans of its own. On Tuesday, the first day of CES 2024, Supernal unveiled the S-A2, an electric vertical takeoff and … Read more
Waymo After several years of testing its autonomous vehicles on city streets without a human engineer behind the wheel, Waymo will send its fully driverless cars onto freeways for the first time. The Alphabet-owned company announced the move in a blog post on Monday, signaling a notable expansion of its driverless car program. Waymo has … Read more
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is looking at ways to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. Trudeau made the comment Monday at a ceremony commemorating the victims of Flight PS752, which was shot down by the IRGC shortly after taking off from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people … Read more
Kia Kia wants to build EVs that can be easily reconfigured for different uses, ranging from ordinary passenger cars to taxis and delivery vehicles. The automaker previewed this strategy, called the Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV), at CES 2024, showing the first potential vehicle designs. All PBV derivatives will be based on a modular platform with … Read more
Polish farmers ended a blockade of a Poland-Ukraine border crossing after reaching an agreement with Warsaw that met their demands, defusing a dispute that had become an early test of the new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Newly appointed Polish Agriculture Minister Czesław Siekierski signed the deal with Polish farmers blockading the Medyka-Shehyni border … Read more
WARSAW — Polish farmers restarted a blockade of a Poland-Ukraine border crossing on Thursday, accusing the new Polish government of failing to guarantee it will meet their demands for financial help. The farmers rejoined truckers at the Medyka-Shehyni crossing — hauliers are also blocking other crossings complaining about competition from Ukrainian rivals — turning the … Read more
