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Mobility and traffic technology company Intelematics has expanded its connected vehicle services, including eCall, into New Zealand.

GUEST EVENTS:  The annual conference will take place in New York on June 10-11 and feature speaking sessions from customers like Redfin, Thales IFE, Toyota and Volkswagen

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Car maker Toyota and Japanese telco NTT have agreed to a multi-billion dollar joint initiative in the field of mobility and AI telecommunications that aims to achieve a society with zero traffic accidents.

GUEST CASE STUDY: Toyota Financial Services New Zealand (TFS) is a premier automotive finance company operating since 1989. It is also a multi-brand organisation, with Toyota Fleet Management, Mazda Finance, car sharing service Cityhop, and the recently acquired Ezi Car Rentals under its bonnet. TFS is driving towards becoming data-led, ensuring it can scale customer service as the organisation grows.

COMPANY NEWS: Aveva, a global leader in industrial software, has met its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2025 early and accelerated investment in software solutions that help customers to decarbonise.

Healthcare AI company Harrison.ai has appointed Robyn Denholm to its board of directors.

Global automobile giant Toyota has announced specifications for a new solid-state battery which has a range of 745 miles (nearly 1200km) and charges in just 10 minutes.

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.

Some Toyota Lexus models manufactured between 2010 and 2018 and sold in the US will lose all Lexus Enform features and services after shutdown of 3G networks, a report says.

Digital acceleration and agile development specialist Endava and Melbourne-based consultancy Lexicon have merged.

COMPANY NEWS: Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced the appointment of Aaron White as vice president and general manager, APJ sales, effective immediately. He will be based in Singapore and report directly to Nutanix’s chief revenue officer Andrew Brinded.

Envestnet promotes Farouk Ferchichi as global head of data and analytics.

The Australian Olympic Committee invites fans to watch the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with its newly-launched official digital fan hub.

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.

Japanese automobile giant Toyota Motor Corporation has announced details of its first battery electric vehicle, which it says it plans to launch in Europe next month. The car has been jointly developed with Subaru.

COMPANY NEWS: Board International, the number one decision-making platform provider, today announced the appointment of Marco Limena as chief executive officer.

The Victorian Government is funding the Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2), which will operate in collaboration with CSIRO and Swinburne University of Technology. An early project is the development of a vehicle refuelling station at Clayton.

About 75% of all new cars that are sold in the next five years are expected to be connected, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, adding that roughly 270 million vehicles will be shipped between 2020 and 2025.

About 155,000 vehicles with defective Takata airbags are still running on Australian roads, the Australian Completion and Consumer Commission has warned, adding that there are only six months left for the manufacturers to complete the recall of these automobiles.