Europe

While the name is about the same, the 730 Twin is a neoclassic café racer that is not from the production line of the Jawa-Yezdi-Mahindra group in India, but from Jawa Moto in the Czech Republic – the brand that started it all.

The JMEV SC01 comes backed by the electronics and tech giant Xiaomi. And despite its digital roots, it gets all the sports car basics right: driving pleasure, lightweight construction, precise handling, and, most importantly, a no-frills approach.

Europe's lofty plan to phase out the sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2035 now seems all but dead. The European Commission announced it's dropping the ban on new gas-powered cars a decade from now, owing to pressure from the auto industry.

Chinese e-mobility company Yadea, which sells more electric vehicles per year than Tesla, is launching in the European market, starting with four electric two wheelers initially heading to the UK thanks to a partnership with True Enterprises.

A report out of Europe throws serious shade at plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) cars, pointing out that they emit nearly as much carbon dioxide emissions as gas-powered vehicles. So much for greener motoring.

Autonomous fighter planes are popping up all over the place these days as more air forces opt for pilotless loyal wingmen. The latest example is Europe's version, the multi-role Helsing CA-1 Europa, which has just made its public debut.

Kia has been enjoying notable success in Europe of late. The highest-selling electric SUV in the region isn't from Audi or BMW, or even Dacia – it'd from Kia. And the winning model might soon be headed to the United States.

ARX Robotics has just received €9 million from the NATO Innovation Fund to develop a series of robust unmanned ground vehicles. The modular design of the bots makes them capable of filling a variety of roles in the alliance's attack and defense systems.

Europe's largest 3D-printed building is a data center in Germany. Named the Wave House, the project harnesses the benefits of 3D printing tech to inject a sense of style into the unglamorous world of cloud-computing infrastructure.

3D-printed architecture has gone from strength to strength over the past few years and the latest notable advance comes from Germany, where an ambitious new data center is under construction that's hailed as Europe's largest 3D-printed building.

EasyMile has been developing and testing its driverless shuttle at various locations around the world, and has now added another feather to its cap, becoming the first vehicle authorized to operate without a human driver on public roads in France.

Oil giant Shell is planning the biggest wind-to-hydrogen project in Europe, a colossal 10-gigawatt offshore wind farm in the North Sea feeding a massive electrolysis plant on dry land that'll pump out a million tonnes of clean H2 a year by 2040.