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Five years on from the Gladiator debut, Jeep officially puts its name on a pickup camper. The modular system developed with Addax fits the Gladiator like a glove and uses separate camper shell, rooftop tent and add-on components for versatility.

AVL had a pretty good day earlier this month, when it confirmed its prototype 2.0-liter turbo hydrogen race engine could generate over 200 hp-per-liter. AVL uses a water-injection system alongside its turbo to moderate combustion for more power.

Lexus won't be needing conveyor belts once the "gigacast" chassis of its next-gen electric cars is put together; the company has announced it's introducing a "self-driving assembly line," where cars will autonomously move between stations.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin quietly founded LTA Research in 2015, and its massive rigid airship prototype is preparing for its first outdoor flights, with a view to speeding up disaster response and starting zero-infrastructure cargo flights.

The eVTOL air taxi Archer is pushing toward production has now lifted off for the first time. The handsome, five-seat Midnight aircraft is scheduled to enter service in 2025, providing clean, quiet, short-range, traffic-busting hops over urban areas.

Airbus Helicopters' new FlightLab flying laboratory is already yielding results, successfully testing a fly-by-wire system for Airbus’ CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL prototype that reduces the primary flight controls to a single joystick.

While bunny hopping is a useful skill for mountain bikers to have, practicing it out on the rough, tough, unpredictable trails can be difficult. The Garage Bunny is designed to make things easier, by allowing bikers to learn their hopping at home.

Back in March, South Korean bike manufacturer Bokyong launched the Pop Cycle on Kickstarter, a folding commuter with a slide-in/slide-out frame. Now the company is crowdfunding an ebike version with tasty carbon fiber mixed in.

Ebikes have come a long way in terms of sleeker, simpler styling, but they still often stick out with odd geometries, bloated tubes and large motors. QU-ET pursues a more classic, understated design direction with the Unfair Advantage city ebike.

According to the UN, there are about 258 million widows in the world. Tomasin Racing feels these are rookie numbers, so it's making a kit that turns a standard Honda CRF 450 into a certified widow production facility with a 500cc 2-stroke engine.

Until relatively recently, riders looking to kick up dirt would have been accompanied by the ear-splitting clatter of a two-stroke. Electric motos offer a cleaner and quieter alternative, and Flux Performance is currently working on a new option.

Back in the good old days, you needed skills to ride a Suzuki up the stairs, and people would look at you like a lunatic. On the Suzuki MOQBA quadruped horsiecycle, though, no skills are required, and people are more likely to look at you with pity.

UK shipyard MMS has added a new member to its fleet of floating-debris collection vessels. The latest Envirocat is the first to clean up waterways without releasing engine fumes into the environment.

Porsche and Frauscher have taken the first production model of the 850 Fantom Air for a spin on the waters of Lake Garda in Italy, an electric sports boat that's is built around drive technology from the upcoming Porsche Macan electric SUV.

The SP80 and Syroco teams have both got their remarkable boats on the water. Looking like a pair of alien spaceships, and pulled by ultra-fast kites instead of sails on masts, both these machines are built to reach terrifying, unprecedented speeds.

Back in 2020, Brooklyn's Civilized Cycles launched a low-step ebike called the Model 1 that features expandable hardshell panniers on either side of the rear wheel. For its next project, the company is aiming to haul significantly more cargo.

Taiwan-based e-mobility outfit Gogoro is taking its battery-swapping electric scooters out beyond the city limits with the introduction of the CrossOver SmartScooter, which the company is calling the first two-wheel SUV.

Infinite Machine has crafted an angular new electric scooter sure to grab hold of eyes while leaving ears in blissful silence. The P1 scooter zips around cities for up to 60 miles per charge, carrying cargo via a fully modular accessory system.