Hyundai powers electric vehicle race with car that can cook dinner

Seoul: Hyundai Motor Co. is pitching its new Ioniq 5 as being able to do more than the average EV. In a series of promotional videos on YouTube, a camper is shown running on a treadmill hooked up to the car’s battery, listening to their favorite tunes on a bank of speakers, and even rustling up […]

International Monetary Fund more than doubles UAE’s 2021 GDP forecast to 3.1%

Dubai: The International Monetary Fund has revised growth rates of GCC economies significantly upwards from its last update in October 2020. In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF has forecast the UAE and Saudi Arabia to grow 3.1 per cent and 2.9 per cent in 2021 against estimated contractions of 5.9 per cent and […]

Can Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan challenge the automobile’s centrality in American life?

If America is dominated by car culture and the call of the open road, there is a big reason for that: Over the past 65 years, the United States has spent nearly $10 trillion in public funds on highways and roads and just one-quarter of that on subways, buses and passenger rail. But President Joe […]