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Ford Australia will introduce the E-Transit Custom, its third electric vehicle, in the first half of 2024, the company says, adding that there would be a total of at least five models in service by the end of 2024.

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.

Mining giant Fortescue Metals has undertaken the operational deployment of autonomous light vehicles (ALV’s) at the company’s mining operations in the Chichester Hub in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

Well in advance of any Apple car arriving, Ford and Google have announced "a unique strategic partnership to accelerate Ford’s transformation and reinvent the connected vehicle experience."

Digital service delivery intelligence provider ThousandEyes has made three senior appointments in Australia.

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.

Data management company Attunity has exposed a considerable amount of data in three publicly unsecured Amazon S3 buckets, including back-ups of employees' OneDrive accounts, email correspondence, system passwords, sales and marketing contact information and project specifications.

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.

Documents belonging to more than 100 manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics, "an engineering service provider specialised in automation process and assembly for OEMs, Tier 1 automotive suppliers as well as our end users", the security firm UpGuard says.

Ford's new "Transit Connect self-driving research vehicle" features three lockers: one on the passenger side and two in the back  that help deliver both food and goods.

Waze users globally can now project the app’s "real-time traffic and navigation service onto the touch screen in Australian Ford vehicles via SYNC AppLink, and control it through voice command".

Xero has promoted Ben Styles to the role of general manager financial web APAC, and appointed Ian Boyd as head of financial web in Australia.

Apple is scheduled to report its second fiscal quarter earnings overnight and the company will announce that it has more than US$250 billion in cash, most of it stashed outside the US.

Australia’s top 20 online retailer, Klika, continues its aggressive local expansion with its recent appointment as Australia’s exclusive distributor of Ford Power Equipment.

Ford Motor Company will invest US$1 billion during the next five years in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company, to develop a virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle which is expected in 2021 – and for potentially licensing to other companies.

Ford has invested $2 billion in research and development over the past six years to launch and upgrade a record number of products, including the rapid rollout of SYNC 3.

Ford has flagged it will produce a fully autonomous vehicle designed for ride sharing. It should be on U.S. roads by 2021. Autonomous vehicles are part of Ford Smart Mobility - its plan to be a leader in the field as well as in connectivity, mobility, customer experience, and data and analytics.

Ford’s new SYNC MoodTech changes the way drivers and vehicles interact linking driver and vehicle like never before.

Digital radio is well and truly here to stay with over 12% of people now tuning in each week.