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The Federal Court has ordered Mazda Australia Pty Ltd to pay $11.5 million in penalties for engaging in “misleading and deceptive conduct and making false or misleading representations” to nine consumers about their consumer guarantee rights.

More than half a million Australians plan to buy electric vehicles over the next tour years, according to Roy Morgan Research, an independent Australian social and political market research and public opinion statistics company.

Sydney firm Vyro has raised $1 million in a second round of fund-raising to build what it claims will be Australia's first virtual dealership for electric vehicles and says it has a waiting list of 1000 customers.

Chinese smartphone vendor vivo is offering up to $30 in savings on the purchase of some of its Y series models from Tuesday to 30 November in a Black Friday promotion.

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.

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.

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.

Toyota does not appear to be issuing notices to its customers who have cars with defective Takata airbags – until the customers themselves contact the company.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned drivers of cars that have defective Takata airbags to have them replaced if possible before undertaking road trips in the holiday season.

Every year, consumer advocate CHOICE unveils the list of products, services and companies it has deemed as being worthy of a "Shonky Award", and this year's no different!