This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The BMW iX electric SUV ( earlier post ) has its world premiere at the Auto Shanghai 2021 show. The enhanced possibilities for using market-specific apps in China that this enables brings another focal point to BMW’s presentation at Auto Shanghai 2021. Market launch in China will get underway over the course of 2021.
On Wednesday, just before the Los Angeles auto show, the 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 battery-electric crossover made its global debut. The house has been a design icon since it opened, and its use underscored the upscale market targeted by the electric three-row SUV from one of the world’s most ambitious carmakers.
Image credit: Xiaomi EV ) Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, OTCMKTS: XIACY) has launched the YU7, directly challenging Teslas (NASDAQ: TSLA) popular Model Y in the highly competitive SUV (sport utility vehicle) market. He has been reporting since 2009, mainly on macroeconomics and capital markets. He started his career at China Daily and Reuters.
Image credit: Xiaomi EV ) Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, OTCMKTS: XIACY) has launched the YU7, directly challenging Teslas (NASDAQ: TSLA) popular Model Y in the highly competitive SUV (sport utility vehicle) market. He has been reporting since 2009, mainly on macroeconomics and capital markets. He started his career at China Daily and Reuters.
Image credit: Xiaomi EV ) Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, OTCMKTS: XIACY) has launched the YU7, directly challenging Teslas (NASDAQ: TSLA) popular Model Y in the highly competitive SUV (sport utility vehicle) market. He has been reporting since 2009, mainly on macroeconomics and capital markets. He started his career at China Daily and Reuters.
Toyota introduced the next-generation three-row 2020 Highlander SUV at the New York International Auto Show. Just as the first RAV4 launched the compact crossover SUV segment 22 years ago, the original Highlander redefined the midsize family SUV when it arrived in 2001.
This premium, three-row large SUV also wears a pretty premium price tag, but also goes some way towards justifying it by arriving with dual-motor powertrain, fast charging and a big battery, right from the cheapest model. seconds, which is quick in any car, and even more so in a giant SUV that weights in excess of 2.5
The US auto giant is changing the structure of its batteries so that they will have fewer and larger modules – reducing the number by as much as 75 per cent – while also reinventing battery chemistry to greatly lower costs. General Motors has revealed how it is challenging the might of China when it comes to EV battery technology.
XPeng has just launched a revision of its G3 smart electric SUV, the G3i. The G3i comes with a facelift as well as upgraded infotainment and autonomous driving tech (XPILOT 2.5). The upgraded infotainment system uses a Snapdragon 820A auto-grade chip, and the vehicle now […].
Aspiring Chinese auto giant GWM has laid down the pricing challenge to the 2026 Toyota RAV4 PHEV with its incoming Haval H6 medium SUV range. GWM Haval Aussie three-row SUV solution emerges READ MORE: Massive 4500kg braked towing from a PHEV for close to $100K! The refreshed 2025 GWM Haval H6 arrives in dealers later this month.
At the Paris auto show this week, Renault unveiled its latest all-electric offering, the Renault 4 E-Tech, a nod to the brand’s 1960’s Renault 4L hatchback – one of its greatest bestsellers.
Hyundai’s Genesis luxury brand revealed a fully electric version of its GV70 SUV, called the Electrified GV70, on Friday at Auto Guangzhou 2021 in China. And it confirmed that the model will be coming to North America.
2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA arrives with advanced tech and 792km range READ MORE: Benz wins the comp for longest name! inch widescreen infotainment system that works with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a premium sound system and a wireless smartphone charger. 2025 Mercedes-Benz EQA 250+ City Edition. Combined with a 70.5-kilowatt-hour
At the Shanghai auto show two years ago, XPeng 's P5 sedan attracted a lot of attention as the world's first LiDAR-equipped production car at the time. The ongoing Shanghai auto show began on April 18 and will run through April 27. Notably, the P5 used LiDAR provided by Livox, incubated by drone maker DJI.
NIO and Li Auto 's mobile apps have been featuring pretty girls significantly more often lately, while XPeng is running a campaign to encourage users to share such content on its app. The app has probably the largest number of users of any Chinese carmaker, and may even surpass many popular apps from local tech giants.
Helping unlock the super quick recharging times is BYDs latest battery tech that employs a 1500V silicon-carbide power module that boosts efficiency of a top-up. 2025 Megawatt Flash Charger. 2025 Megawatt Flash Charger.
Fresh details have surfaced in the build-up to the new 2025 Alfa Romeo Junior’ that will launch here in the third quarter of this year as both a mild-hybrid tech and EV. Built to replace both the MiTo and Giulietta hatchbacks, the new small SUV in electric form will rival the inbound VW ID.3, seconds for the 0-100km/h dash.
Hot on the heels of the Xiaomi YU7 , the mid-size luxury SUV segment has grown again with the arrival of the 2026 Alpine A390 SUV. READ MORE: Porsche Macan and Tesla Model Y Performance EV-conqueror teased: Triple motor Alpine A390 could be the best-driving mid-size SUV yet! All three likely to eventually be sold in Australia.
The Tesla Model Y has been named the “New Car of the Year” by one outlet, following the electric SUV becoming the world’s best-selling vehicle overall last year. In the 2024 Auto Trader index, the Model Y landed four out five points in most of the categories evaluated, including safety, interior, and features.
Under the hood, both SUVs share the same 2.0-litre Both SUVs feature a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic, and both are fitted with all-wheel-drive. While the VW Tigaun R Line is being retailed at 49 lakh European car manufacturers are revitalizing the premium SUV space in India with the latest launches from Skoda and Volkswagen.
The increasingly popular Chinese SUV brand Haval is close to confirming a new range-topping three-row plug-in hybrid wagon for its Australian line-up. The Blue Mountain would sit above the new-generation mid-size H6 and H7 five-seat SUVs in the local Haval line-up, both of which launch in Australia within months.
Tech: John Deere: High Tech Down on the Farm Higher Farm Yields through Innovation, Advanced Technology and Sustainability The sight of a farmer sitting in a tractor for hours and hours working a field is being replaced by a semi-automated agricultural machine with no human behind the wheel. Story by John Faulkner.
Geely Auto Australia has locked in a new mid-size plug-in hybrid Geely Starray EM-i PHEV for an arrival in the fourth quarter of this year as the emerging Chinese brand chases yet more volume in the mid-size SUV segment. litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine that produces 73kW and 125Nm with a powerful 160kW/262Nm e-motor.
and Auto X. The R Auto family of next-gen vehicles will feature the R-Tech advanced intelligent assistant, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, to run perception, sensor fusion and prediction for automated driving features in real time. Orders are starting now for the sedan, with the SUV following in 2022.
The giant Korean auto group incorporating Hyundai and Kia has detailed a new aerodynamic aid it is planning to roll out on all future EVs that will cut drag on even the slipperiest of its models, boost downforce, enhance high-speed stability and traction all while adding up to six kilometres of range. Hyundai Group Active Air Skirt.
Midsize SUVs are many automakers’ bread and butter, so they work hard to keep the family haulers updated to stay competitive with the increasingly crowded field of alternatives. The SUV offers seven- or eight-passenger seating, depending on the configuration.& inches longer and 3.2 inches taller than the outgoing model. .&
The Chinese auto giant GWM is set to tackle one of the last bastions of the Aussie car market preserved for legacy brands heavy duty towing. As soon as 2026 the brands Toyota LandCruiser-fighting Tank 700 luxury 4×4 SUV is expected to lob in Australia with GWMs new twin turbo 4.0-litre 2025 GWM Tank 700 Hi4-T interior.
The Genesis Electrified GV70 has been overhauled for 2025 with a bunch of comprehensive tweaks that improve its styling, in-car tech offering and range but the refreshed Audi Q6 e-tron or Mercedes-Benz EQE rival is now $6942 more expensive. The latter now runs wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and is capable of over-the-air updates.
MG is launching its IM Motors electric luxury sub-brand in Australia with two models, five variants and rhetoric thats super-heated even by the standards of auto industry marketing spiel. READ MORE: MG-owned IM Motors locked-in for Australia in 2025 with IM5 electric saloon and IM6 SUV READ MORE: Scooped in Melbourne!
Toyota has taken covers off its electric bZ Concept compact SUV, looking near production ready and primed to be an EV version of the next-generation C-HR. Revealed at this month’s Los Angeles Auto Show, the bZ Concept joins the Tesla-fighting bZ3 electric sedan revealed last month and bZ4X electric SUV due on-sale in Australia in 2023.
Volvo has accompanied a teaser of the Volvo EX60 electric SUV with confirmation it won’t launch until January 2026, making it unlikely to land in Australian dealerships until the end of next year. Other range-boosting additions should include pop-out door handles and disc-like alloy wheels.
Leapmotor is a box fresh Chinese brand on our shores, marketed by auto giant Stellantis (Jeep, Peugeot, RAM, etc.), and lands with the C10 medium SUV. Made all the more impressive as this Leapmotor feels like a big and heavy SUV. The dashboard is very minimalist, but something of a tech marvel. inch effort. Is it 2015?
Sixteen halls, each substantially bigger than the entire Melbourne motor show, with around 100 auto brands on display hosting about the same number of global debuts almost all of them electrified in some way. Lynk & Co 900 electric SUV has Land Rover design influence and Mazda pricing, so why arent we getting it in Australia?
Automotive giant Geely Auto to enter Australia with a tech-focussed electric SUV designed for 89 markets. The post Geely: Another Chinese automotive giant to enter Australia with first EV appeared first on The Driven.
GM has entered the premium all-electric crossover SUV market, and its flagship vehicle is the rather eye-catching Cadillac Lyriq. With the competiton in the EV SUV market in mind, it’s important to know how the Cadillac Lyriq stacks up against two of the strongest entries in the premium all-electric crossover segment today.
Constellium provides ASI-certified aluminum Auto Body Sheet solutions for closures and inner parts, as well as extrusion-based components for the vehicle’s front and rear Crash Management Systems. Both Auto Body Sheet solutions are supplied from Constellium’s plant in Neuf-Brisach, France.
New Models Paint a Diverse Automotive Future The Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) for years has been the “green” auto show with most of the vehicle debuts electrified in some fashion. 2026 Genesis Gasoline and Electrified GV70 The updated 2026 GV70 gasoline and electrified GV70 will remain as top sellers among premium midsize SUVs.
Chinese auto maker BYD is taking to the skies with DJI drones in its continued effort to best Tesla for the title of the world’s biggest electric car manufacturer. The docked drone option is mounted atop a U8 SUV produced by BYD’s luxury sub-brand YangWang. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.
The Chinese electrified vehicle maker Leapmotor will launch in Australia in late 2024 as part of an international expansion backed by global auto giant Stellantis. READ MORE: Beijing show: Aussie-bound Leapmotor shows off C16 three-row electric family SUV READ MORE: Here comes another one! It has a 265 km WLTP range. Leapmotor C01.
Standard features include wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, two things the Prologues General Motors counterparts dont have. The idea of a Honda EV built by GM sounded odd at first, but the deals surrounding the SUV have driven a great deal of interest in the Prologue, making it the nest-selling non-Tesla EV in the U.S.
Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless charging, Bluetooth, SiriusXM, HD radio, and more. While the 2025 Enclave hasn’t been crash-tested, Buick added a handful of new safety tech. The SUV is also available with Super Cruise across the model line, making it Buick’s first vehicle to offer the feature.
Its the electric car that set the template in the mid-sized SUV space. The heavily refreshed Tesla Model Y arrives with a sharper look, enhanced tech and perhaps most importantly a much-improved driving experience. 2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range: Sharp new looks and more tech for 2025. Infotainment is handled by a 15.4-inch
Geely has taken a razor to even its own pricing predictions for its EX5 electric SUV, with the mid-size model to start at $40,990 before on-road costs In Australia. READ MORE: 2025 Geely EX5 Review: Is this cut-price electric SUV bad news for the Leapmotor C10, BYD Sealion 7 and Tesla Model Y? Tech is handled by a 15.4-inch
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content