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Indian telecoms monolith Bharti Airtel has partnered with transport and industrial manufacturer Volvo, and telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson to explore new high-end technologies for the manufacturing sector.

An electric truck made by Volvo has just completed what the company claims is the longest journey by a vehicle of this kind, with an FH Electric going from Brisbane to Canberra, a distance of 1185km.

Australian waste management contractor JJ's Waste and Recycling is testing out a Volvo FE Electric truck for waste collection.

More electric cars have been sold in Australia during the first six months of 2023 than during the whole of the previous year, the Electric Vehicle Council, a lobby group, says.

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.

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.

Swedish transport giant Volvo has invested in Israeli automotive cybersecurity company Upstream Security to fund the development of systems to protect connected vehicles following the introduction of data-driven technologies.

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.

Ericsson and Zenuity are collaborating to develop the “Zenuity Connected Cloud” and accelerate the speed to market for new vehicle safety technologies, in-vehicle software, safety data and IoT with end-to-end security. 

A partnership between Baidu and Nvidia will see the Chinese Web services company applying Nvdia GPUs to provide AI in a range of products and services.

Apple's much-hyped car connection system CarPlay is reportedly experiencing some heavy delays, with several prominent car manufacturers moving their release dates from 2014 to 2015.

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has unveiled its new iPhone-to-car service, CarPlay.

Self-drive cars may be the future, but that doesn’t mean the death of grid-lock or the general drag of slow city traffic.  Why do we even fork out for high performance vehicles when much of the time is spent travelling slower than a senior citizen on a mobility scooter?

Autonomous cars, those that drive themselves, are part of your future, and being part of your future is what Google wishes to be, hence the Google driverless car, now officially licensed in, ironically, the biggest gambling state in the USA.