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Australian electric vehicle sales have picked up in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 8688 vehicles sold in the six months to June, compared to 6900 for the whole of calendar 2020.

Industry body Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has joined a working group of broadcasters, carmakers and tech experts collaborating on the innovation of radio in Android Automotive.

Sales of 5G connected cars in China will reach 7.1 million units in 2025, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research has forecast, adding that this would account for 40% of the volume of connected car sales.

German automobile manufacturer Audi has put in place a system whereby would-be customers can pick, book and pay for a vehicle, all without venturing outside their homes, and claims it is the first premium automobile brand in Australia to do so.

About 78,000 vehicles are fitted with faulty Takata airbags which may deploy wrongly in an accident causing metal fragments to be ejected at high speed and inflict serious injuries or even kill the occupants, the ACCC has warned.

Global sales of electric vehicles are expected to reach about two million in 2019. up from 1.2 million units in 2017, the global industry analysis firm Counterpoint Research says, adding that by 2025, this number is forecast to grow to 10 million.

A total of 1.8 million faulty Takata airbags still have to be replaced in vehicles used in Australia, the consumer watchdog says, with the recall likely to run until 2020.

Mobile networks on Earth have some way to go before they meet the needs of humans but companies are already casting their eyes into space, with the first network on the Moon being planned.

While most IT people know Nvidia as a graphics card and GPU vendor, the company's products are increasingly being adopted by the automotive industry.

The Audi Centre Sydney has installed Tomizone’s Lightswitch Portal and Dashboard, meaning a managed service that delivers free Wi-Fi to Audi Centre Sydney customers. 

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE says that consumers affected by Volkswagen’s emissions scandal should be made aware of their rights under Australian law to a refund or replacement vehicle.

Google has joined car makers Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai, and chipmaker NVIDIA to form the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), a “global alliance of technology and auto industry leaders committed to bringing the Android platform to cars.”