This Month
Tesla sales disappoint despite Elon Musk’s carmaker slashing prices
The company makes the dominant electric vehicle model in the country. But it faces intense competition from luxury European rivals and cheaper Chinese brands.
- Simon Evans
October
Why Europe’s car crisis is mostly made in China
The once-lucrative market is now highly competitive and more Chinese EVs are being exported, compounding slower sales at home.
- Kana Inagaki, Edward White and Sarah White
- Opinion
- Driverless cars
Ride-sharing robopods are the future of cities
Self-driving, on-demand cars could change the way we move around cities and dramatically increase throughput of congested streets.
- Vinod Khosla
Are you ready for a driverless taxi?
No steering wheel, no brake, no accelerator, no door handles: Musk says Tesla’s Cybercab will be in production before 2027 – and to cost less than $US30,000.
- Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
What it’s like to drive a hot lap in a $1m Ferrari
Daunting, nerve-racking and exhilarating. Behind the wheel of a $1m Ferrari for a course that mimics the most challenging racetrack corners.
- Tony Davis
September
Luxury cars among Plutus Payroll tax fraud spoils up for grabs
A Porsche Cayenne GTS, a Porsche 911 GT3 and two Wolf GB08 Tornado racing cars are among 30 vehicles confiscated from instigators of the fraud that will be auctioned off.
- Ronald Mizen
Federal government warned of Chinese EV software security risk
The federal government is being warned that a timid approach to risks from Chinese vehicle software could undermine national security.
- Simon Evans, Tom Rabe and Jessica Sier
ASX slumps; Westpac gets new CEO; Boomers drive luxe apartment demand
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- Uber
Uber jumps straight back into car sharing with global partnership
Two weeks after pulling the pin on the product that let people rent out their cars, Uber has signed an international partnership with US-based operator Turo.
- Paul Smith
Car buyers going greener turn to hybrids not full EVs
The No.1 selling vehicle in Australia in August was the Toyota RAV4 hybrid.
- Simon Evans
- Driving With Tony Davis
- Electric vehicles
Your electric car choices are about to explode
The first Zeekr, a small SUV, will be sold from October, and will be followed by as many as 10 other brands from China’s vast portfolio of carmakers.
- Tony Davis
‘More for a second-hand toothbrush’: Why EVs are on the nose
The most commonly held concerns about buying an electric vehicle related to upfront cost, charging facilities, and deterioration.
- Gus McCubbing
August
Why this start-up thinks it can succeed where Uber failed
Drive Mate says it has had a 39 per cent increase in vehicles listed to rent on its platform since news broke of Uber’s plan to close its car sharing service.
- Paul Smith
Uber targets car rentals after Carshare failure
Uber has blamed a blow-out in operational costs for the failure of its Carshare service, which will cease business from September 12.
- Paul Smith
260km/h? Porsche’s new Macan EV is its fastest ever
Porsche’s new fully electric SUV will entice those wanting the model with the biggest numbers.
- Tony Davis
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
EV sales splutter, but not this group’s offshore expansion strategy
CAR Group’s big move in the US came at a time of rising rates and softening consumer demand. It still worked.
- Anthony Macdonald
Battery EV sales slump as cautious buyers opt for hybrids
Hybrid vehicles – with a petrol- or diesel-powered engine and a smaller battery and electric motor – are proving very popular as some buyers baulk at full-battery EVs.
- Simon Evans
July
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Car yards are full and dealers worry they are racing to the bottom
There’s been little economic data to offset expectations that the RBA needs to raise interest rates. A review of conditions at car dealerships caught our eye.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
Ferrari’s first electric car may cost more than $800,000
By the end of the decade as much as 80 per cent of the car maker’s new vehicles could run on batteries. The first is scheduled for 2025.
- Bernhard Warner
- Logistics Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Transport needs to avoid becoming the nation’s biggest emitter
Without dramatic changes, this may be the last industry to decarbonise. Aurizon, the winner of the Logistics and Transport category, aims to change that with its electric locomotive.
- Agnes King
