Transport

Volvo has launched the EX30 small electric SUV, and it believes its smallest SUV will be one of its most impactful products of all time. The crossover will offer up to 275 miles of range, a 3.4-second 0-60 mph, and Volvo's lowest CO2 footprint ever.

EarthCruiser customers have been pining for something less huge truck, more AWD camper van. The company answers with the Evado, a van-based cruiser of earth that marries van-like comfort with the toughness and living space for which EC is known.

The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best identifies the world’s most exceptional classic car from a select group of vehicles that have won the highest awards at the previous year’s major concours events. The 2022 award finalists have now been announced.

Having received permission from Austrian authorities to begin outdoor flight testing on its remarkable CycloRotor-propelled technology demonstrator, CycloTech has announced noise testing results for its 360-degree thrust vectoring propulsion barrels.

Monégasque aerial photography and drone show company McClic has successfully test-flown its MC One personal eVTOL, a simple but nice-looking coaxial octacopter with a pilot's seat on top. Anyone can fly it, given about 10 minutes' training.

There's precious little human dignity in economy airline travel to begin with; why not go all the way? The HypNap TruRest offers you the opportunity to attempt sleep with your face mashed into a padded cradle, and arrive red, wrinkly and refreshed.

Even though almost all new mountain bikes now have just one chainring and no front derailleur, it would still be nice to have all those other gear ratios again. The Binary Gear is designed to bring them back, without reintroducing a front derailleur.

California-based ebike maker Vanpowers has launched a new commuter pitched as "a precision-built, high-torque, smooth-powered bike." The UrbanGlide is available in three model variants, each with a 500-W motor and 70-mile battery.

In the past few years, Swiss cycling tool startup Daysaver has brought us a clever nesting-bit hex wrench and a multifunctional tire lever. Well, the company is back on our radar again, this time with its Incredible multitool system.

The Pasq ADV1 pull-behind motorcycle trailer supports unforgettable 3-wheel adventures. Its single wheel combines with a proprietary trapezoid hinge to ensure the trailer maneuvers around corners but rides like a rigid extension of the bike at speed.

Norton has made good on its threat to turn its slinky V4SV superbike into a cafe racer – without neutering its rorty 1200cc V4 engine. The new V4CR carries an absolutely brutal price tag, but a bike this pretty might just get away with it.

The Surfcycle is a street-legal, stand-up electric scooter capable of highway speeds and unstoppable lane-splitting – with luggage. The ride is halfway between surfing and motorcycling, and its remarkable creators say it's the fastest way across LA.

Ever since boats became capable of pulling someone behind them, the idea of jumping and playing on the waves has been a thing. Today, however, wakesurfing technology has improved this activity immensely – thanks largely to companies like MasterCraft.

Way back in 2016, GoBoat introduced an odd-looking boating craft that sat the single occupant in the middle of a huge inflatable ring, and could be collapsed down for transport on land. Now the company has launched the much-improved Gen 2.0 PWC.

Once billed as the world's fastest production electric boat and the world's fastest production hydrofoiling craft, the Valo Hyperfoil has now hit the water as a working alpha prototype – but curiously, its claimed top speed has dropped considerably.

Last year, Italian electric mobility company Reinova announced the development of a folding bamboo-bodied electric scooter called the ToMove. Well, the funky li'l vehicle is now known as the Tom, and is the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.

Where EICMA in Milan is usually reserved for powered two wheelers, e-mobility company Silence opted to use the 2019 event to debut a two-seat electric nanocar called the S04. Now the company has announced that the vehicle has entered series production.

Kawasaki has ridden into the electric mobility space with three new models – sadly not the Ninja BEV previewed at last year's EICMA expo, but with the launch of the Noslisu series electric tilting three-wheelers on its home turf.