Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
But it may also signal a de-escalation of the pressure Washington has brought to bear on the Chinese company now that Huawei is on its heels. Huawei has long been regarded as a rogue player in the international telecoms market with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Huawei is slow in fixing their vulnerabilities.
EV Central
APRIL 11, 2024
Within the new van, Renault-Volvo bosses describe the new Flexis as a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) with an operating system based on Google’s Android OS that allows fleet operators to integrate their own software into the van via the Google Cloud.
EV Central
JANUARY 8, 2024
Rattling its more established rivals from European, American, Japanese and Korean car brands, the Jiyue is the work of a collaboration between Geely and China’s Google-rivalling tech giant Baidu. Size-wise expect it to occupy the middle ground between the Tesla Model 3 and the larger Model S (that is no longer offered in Australia).
EV Central
JANUARY 6, 2024
If the early arrival of the yet-to-be-named electric ute has the sort of impact the fledgling brand has had on other segments then it could be a wake-up to the Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger that dominate ute sales in Australia. The Chinese-owned British brand made a big EV impact in 2023 with the excellent MG4.
EV Central
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Polestar 4 electric SUV is now officially on sale in Australia and targeting the top-selling Tesla Model Y with aggressive pricing in the premium electric vehicle segment. Last year in Australia 36 per cent of the 168,213 prestige and luxury models sold were powered purely by electricity. Polestar 4 does not have a rear window.
EV Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
To continue the earlier theme, I’m looking forward to driving three new Chinese EV entries to the Australian market, all of them potentially offering outstanding value for money. It’s not due to reach Australia until late 2023, but I drove it at its international media launch in Spain in early 2022. Biggest EV surprise of 2022.
EV Central
JUNE 23, 2023
I wonder, then, how many car-company execs are throwing their spare Nokias at the product guys who told them EVs would never catch on, that Tesla was a flash in the pan, like Laser Disc players or Google Glass (again, there’s that feeling of Apples falling from the sky to beat your head in, hello Vision Pro), and would never catch on.
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