The World Car Awards grand final will be held at the New York International Auto Show on April 17, with two electrics in the top three. In the running for the World Car of the Year are the Audi e-tron, Jaguar I-Pace and Volvo S60.
Dutchman Wiebe Wakker is set to complete the world’s longest journey in an electric car on Sunday 7 April in Sydney, after being on the road for 1,119 days. By then, he will have crossed 33 countries and driven 95,000km on electricity, powered by strangers.
Great Wall Motor is set to unveil a groundbreaking 500km range EV ute at the Auto Shanghai show on April 16. The company has also released images of its new adventure ute, scheduled for introduction into Australia and NZ next year.
New vehicle sales in Australia reached a total of 99,442 in March, which is lower than last year’s number by 7546. This is a 7.1% decrease.
The new Ford Escape plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is the first electrified Ford SUV offered to Australians.
Autonomous driving and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) technology is set to be boosted by a partnership with SoftBank Corp, Toyota Motor Corporation and Honda Motor Co and Hino Motors.
The Takata airbag issue has again claimed a life, taking the confirmed toll to 24 people. Armando V. Ortega, a 55-year-old Arizona man, was killed by an exploding Takata airbag inflator and died on June 11, 2018 in hospital.
The launch of the new BMW Group High Performance D3 platform represents a key milestone on its roadmap to highly and fully automated driving.
Sony's conceptual autonomous vehicle (AV) the New Concept Cart SC-1, which uses 5G for remotely controlled functions, will be tested in a joint trial with Japan’s leading mobile operator NTT Docomo in Guam.
Since the first one arrived in 1997, the Forester has long offered buyers a solid family-moving platform with the ruggedness to get you a little deeper into the bush, further up the beach or slightly closer to the summit than the rest of the SUV crowd.