This Website Tells Travelers If They’re Flying on a Boeing Plane

Some travelers have become nervous about flying on Boeing planes after a string of highly publicized technical issues, including the door plug that simply fell off an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet back in January. But is there any way to easily check the type of plane you’ll be flying on? The Fujifilm X100VI … Read more

Japanese automaker Honda reports its 3Q profit jumped on strong demand at home and in the US

TOKYO — Honda Motor Co.’s profit jumped 34% in July-September from a year earlier as a weak yen helped boost the Japanese automaker’s strong overseas earnings thanks to healthy demand, especially in the U.S. Tokyo-based Honda’s profit rose to 254 billion yen ($1.7 billion) from 189 billion yen. Quarterly sales gained 17% to 4.9 trillion … Read more

Honda Motocompacto First Look (2023): Specs, Price, Release Date

I ride a lot of electric kick scooters here in New York City, and no one has ever smiled fondly at me as I zip around town. I get the occasional, “How fast does it go?” when I’m on the burlier scooters, but that’s it. Riding Honda’s new Motocompacto, however, was a heck of a … Read more

GM and Honda ditch plan to build cheaper electric vehicles

“After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment, we are ending development of an affordable EV,” Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said in the interview with Bloomberg, which was the first to report the news. “We are ending development of an affordable EV” GM … Read more

Honda Prologue EV range, battery, and charging specs revealed

Honda revealed that the upcoming 2024 Honda Prologue is “expected” to get an EPA-estimated 300 miles of range on a single charge while announcing a slew of new specs for its first all-electric SUV. Built on GM’s Ultium platform, it achieves this range thanks to the 85kWh battery inside, which is the same size as … Read more

Honda forms largest EV partner network in the US despite not yet selling an EV in the country

Honda is touting today that drivers of its EVs will soon have access to the most amount of charging locations in America. This is thanks to just-announced agreements with EVgo and Electrify America, two of the largest EV charging networks in the States. Honda previously signed on with the NACS charging standard, granting access to … Read more

Hasbro Transformers x Volvo, Lego Disney

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common spherical up of the most recent toy and merch information throughout this web. This week, Hasbro retains on the Transformers prepare, with a number of Primes and a Primal for good measure. Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures will get a cutesy plush line, and be able to embrace the … Read more