Transportation Archive

Last year, the Toyota Engineering Society showed off a snazzy bike inspired by Pokémon Violet’s futuristic motorcycle dragon legendary Miraidon. And now — seemingly timed to this year’s Pokémon Day — Honda is teasing its own a similar concept vehicle styled after Koraidon, Pokémon Scarlet’s more prehistoric dragon whose wheel-looking appendages are actually flotation devices. The Koraidon bike already looks sick as hell, and if its “wheels” actually spin, it’s going to be a huge improvement over Nintendo’s original design.

According to the New York Times, Republicans plan on using the Congressional Review Act “that permits lawmakers to reverse recently-adopted regulations with a simple majority vote.” Except California’s ban on gas-car sales isn’t a federal law, it’s a waiver under the Clean Air Act of 1970, and therefore isn’t subject to Congressional review. Yet another legally questionable move from an administration that’s openly hostile to the idea of slashing tailpipe emissions.

The company’s value dropped below $1 trillion for the first time since last November, causing anti-Elon Musk protesters to celebrate on Bluesky. But the losses don’t appear to have much to do with the demonstrations, which only started earlier this month.

After questions were raised earlier this month about the line item proposing $400 million for “Armored Tesla (Production Units),” the State Department said the solicitation stemmed from a Biden-admin request. However, an NPR reporter says a document shows the Biden administration had approved less than $500k to look into armoring electric vehicles, while experts said the new figure would just about account for replacing the department’s entire 3,000-vehicle fleet with Tesla trucks.