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Passengers queue to check in at the departure hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in London on June 13, 2022. (Photo: Bloomberg) A wave of airline strikes and flight cancellations is deepening Europe’s transport crisis, disrupting travel plans just as the region’s peak summer season gets under way. Walkouts in coming days at Ryanair Holdings Plc, EasyJet Plc, British Airways and Aeroports de Paris (ADP) will add to the turmoil from staffing shortages that are leading to hours-long delays and thousands of scrapped flights. In the United Kingdom, the transport disarray has been compounded by a rail strike. Although travel demand has rebounded dramatically in Europe, what had been touted as the aviation industry’s long-awaited post-pandemic revival is being constrained by labour strife and limits in airport logistics. Chaotic scenes are playing out at airports in Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt and Paris, with lines of people waiting for hours only to be told their flights … [Read more...] about Europe’s travel woes deepen as strikes add to scrapped flights

The interior of a Hyundai Motor Co Ioniq 5 electric vehicle (EV) automotive robo-taxi displayed in the Gangnam district of Seoul, South Korea, on June 9, 2022. (Photo: Bloomberg) Pipe down for a second Elon, the hottest things in the auto industry — the most electric electrics — now come from Hyundai Motor Co. Earlier this year, the South Korean carmaker rolled out two new battery-powered cars — the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and its sibling, the Kia EV6 — which promptly tore up the sales charts, passing the Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Bolt and every other electric vehicle on the market not made by Tesla. In the United States this year through May, Hyundai sold 21,467 of these two machines, besting even the white-hot Ford Mustang Mach-E, which was snapped up by 15,718 drivers. “From an EV perspective, they’re really just kind of cleaning the floor,” said Edmunds analyst Joseph Yoon. “I honestly don’t know if any dealers around me have any in stock.” Tesla still sells far more cars, but it … [Read more...] about Sorry Elon Musk. Hyundai’s quietly dominating EV race

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the central standards setting agency under the Consumer Affairs Ministry of the Government of India, has formulated minimum performance standards required for electric vehicles in India. The performance standars have been formulated at a time when several incidents of fire in electric vehicles have raised safety concerns among consumers. Investigations ordered by the government are already underway into the recent spate of incidents of fire in EVS. According to the BIS, standards have been released for test specifications for lithium ion battery packs and systems. Multiple electric vehicles from across many major brands have been involved in incidents in the past few months. Also Read: Tata Swings Into Action To Investigate Fire Involving A Nexon EV The standards incorporates the test procedure for the basic characteristic of performance, reliability and electrical functionality for the battery packs and system for either high power or … [Read more...] about BIS Issues ‘Performance Standards’ For Two-Wheeler EVs