Bruce Newton
‘Australia lags behind’: PM rated a dismal failure by electric vehicle advocates
Fair dinkum, if one of your kids brought home a report card stuffed with as many Fs as the Electric Vehicle Council...
How cheap does an electric car need to be to go mainstream? Price tipping point revealed
A new survey of 10,000 people across eight significant markets has established tipping points for mainstream adoption of electric vehicles. The survey...
Is current the new currency? We could soon pay with electrons to park electric vehicles
Using current as currency will become a reality in the brave new world of electric cars. A service that allows electric vehicle...
‘I wanted to make a futuristic battle tank’: Elon Musk reveals his Cybertruck inspiration
Elon Musk has shocked precisely no-one by revealing the radical battery-electric Tesla Cybertruck was designed without conducting customer research. No bull. Unveiled...
Australia’s car industry, what’s left of it, foils imports of used electric vehicles
A proposal to boost electric vehicle sales by allowing the unlimited import of second-hand EVs into Australia has had a cool reception...
Tesla tops Toyota as world’s most valuable automaker – if you ignore Elon Musk’s debt, that is
Tesla has topped Toyota to become the world’s largest car-maker based on market value. Of course, the electric car company is dwarfed...
Car insurers may soon know your tyre pressure, and penalise you for it
What if your insurance company raised the premium on your car because you didn’t maintain its recommended tyre pressures? Or you advertised...
The slow, painful death of Australia’s most iconic car brand
Australia’s most important and influential automotive brand, Holden, had been reduced to a fragment of its former glory by the time it...
Jeep Gladiator: A battle to retain a legacy
There’s no doubt Jeep is an emotive name. For off-road automotive fans it’s legendary. For new car buyers struck by the much-chronicled...
From 4×4 tours to station stays: A summer guide to South Australia’s Flinders Ranges
Head to South Australia’s ancient Flinders Ranges in spring and the place is ablaze with the bloom of wildflowers. That’s a big...