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Australia’s small businesses are investing in their recovery, with the Commonwealth Bank saying that financing for equipment and machinery across the sector is up 17% so far this financial year, compared with the same period last year - and investing in IT is also on the investment lists for SMEs.

Taiwanese sources suggest the fabled Apple Car will be released in September 2021. Could Project Titan be coming to fruition?

In what seems to be a rather strange reversal of roles, the Labor Government in Victoria has announced a tax on electric cars and hybrid plug-in vehicles from July 2021 while a Federal Liberal MP, Trent Zimmerman, has penned an op-ed castigating both Victoria and South Australia for their plans to tax EVs.

The UK is expected to announce this week that it will bring forward its phasing out of the sale of new cars that run on petrol and diesel to 2030.

The Canadian utility firm Hydro-Québec has announced that it will begin work on the commercialisation of an all-solid-state battery co-invented by Dr John Goodenough, a professor at The University of Texas in Austin, and Dr Maria Helena Braga, an associate professor at the University of Porto in Portugal.

ASX VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: A global shift in capital allocations is underway. Trillions of dollars are flowing into sustainable or green investments, as the, ‘environmental, social and governance’ (ESG) sector shakes off its image as simply a feel-good investment class.

ASX VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: A global shift in capital allocations is underway. Trillions of dollars are flowing into sustainable or green investments, as the, ‘environmental, social and governance’ (ESG) sector shakes off its image as simply a feel-good investment class.

A survey of 22,000 motorists in Victoria, carried out in late 2019, has found that more of them prefer hybrid power for their next car, rather than a petrol engine, while the preference for all-electric vehicles is also growing.

With electricity prices rising, and electric cars inevitable anyway, the Greens want the government to "accelerate electric vehicle uptake". Will high petrol prices simply be replaced by even higher power bills?

Australian Crowne Plaza hotels boast being "the first hotel network to install Tesla Destination Chargers at all of their properties across Australasia, connecting 12 properties with cutting-edge technology for a growing customer segment."

New research looks at the cost and demand for lithium-ion batteries over the next 10 years to predict the intricacies of what should be a booming market.

While every geek and his dog is prattling on about useless electronic wrist watches, this week Apple has quietly signalled its intention to push forward with its plans to enter the next real Silicon Valley frontier – electric cars.  What’s more, Apple shareholders are pushing the cash-rich company to buy the number one e-car maker in the world, Tesla.

A car partly powered by its own body panels could be on our roads within five years following the development of breakthrough nanotechnology by Queensland’s University of Technology.

Hybrid and pure electric vehicles are slowly but surely picking up speed and rolling down the road towards a world market predicted to be worth a massive $533 billion within the next decade.

Tesla Motors has signed a massive deal with state-owned Chinese phone carrier China Unicom in a plan that will see the companies roll out 400 electric car charging stations across China.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has never been short on ambition but his latest predictions seem particularly high reaching, telling investors his company will be producing up to 100,000 cars a year by 2015.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors has made the stunning move of opening up its patents, in a bid to encourage other vechicle makers to make the switch to electric.

Internode founder Simon Hackett has joined forces with Tesla entrepreneur Rudi Tuisk to create a new type of electric car, and get electric car adoption moving in Australia.

A world-first trial has found that drivers can halve their electric vehicle charging costs using ChargeIQ – an Australian-developed electric vehicle charger.

What happens if you need to recharge your electric car when it is outside your electricity provider's service area? Nokia Siemens has an answer.