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The Elon Musk-led company handed over 462,890 vehicles to customers in the past three months, up 6.4 per cent from a year ago.

Tesla’s first quarterly sales gain this year comes up short

The Elon Musk-led company handed over 462,890 vehicles to customers in the past three months. Its shares tumbled, paring some of their recent rally.

  • Kara Carlson and Dana Hull

Yesterday

Our hot lap in the new and even more powerful Taycan Turbo

Former F3 champion Karl Reindler reckons the all-electric Porsche would get within a couple of seconds of a petrol-powered 911 Turbo.

  • Tony Davis

September

EnergyAustralia is cutting solar feed-in tariffs in response to sharp falls in solar weighted wholesale energy prices.

No end to Australia’s love affair with solar

Rapidly declining solar feed-in tariffs could change the way Australian households manage their renewable energy. That is bound to be good for the grid.

  • Tony Boyd
David Smitherman, Chief Executive Officer at EVDirect - Australian Distributor of BYD, in China this week.

BYD distributor insists no ‘kill switch’ inside its car software

The Australian face of China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer said it cannot remotely control any EVs sold here, after the US sought a ban linked to spy fears.

  • Jessica Sier
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Platinum rejects bid; BlueScope circles Whyalla; BYD’s new ute

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

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The BYD Shark 6 plug in hybrid ute.

I drove the ute that could ruin weekends. Here’s what happened

Electric vehicles have a veneer of delicacy; an assumption the BYD team is keen to dismiss with the new Shark 6 plug-in hybrid ute.

  • Jessica Sier

This is one of the quietest cars we’ve ever driven

The Volvo EX90 electric SUV combines safety with size and silence – or superior sounds via its 25 speakers, if you choose.

  • Tony Davis
BYD - Build Your Dreams - is the No.2 selling electric vehicle brand in Australia, behind Tesla.

Federal government warned of Chinese EV software security risk

The federal government is being warned that a timid approach to risks from Chinese vehicle software could undermine national security.

  • Simon Evans, Tom Rabe and Jessica Sier
Tesla could be in China’s crosshairs after the US announced plans to ban Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles.

Elon Musk could be biggest loser of Biden’s Chinese car ban

Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, raised the terrifying scenario of a rogue state controlling America’s cars remotely.

  • Robert Mendick
A BYD launch in Brazil this month. South America is an important market for the company.

BYD shrugs off planned US ban of Chinese smart car software

Liu Xueliang, general manager of BYD’s auto sales division for Asia-Pacific, said the Chinese EV giant had turned its attention to markets with receptive EV policies.

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  • Jessica Sier
A worker unloads a new Tesla Model 3 from a truck at a logistics drop zone in Seattle.

Electric vehicles hit consumer speed bumps

Energy minister Chris Bowen doesn’t think hybrids offer a real advance in the transition to electric cars. Drivers disagree, and the road to a pure EV market is bumpy.

  • Jennifer Hewett
China is embracing EVs while European enthusiasm has ebbed.

Friend or foe? Europe’s big Chinese EV dilemma

Bad news hasn’t been enough to get European carmakers and politicians to rethink their anti-China strategy. But that’s exactly what might need to happen.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
IGO is all-in on battery materials, but has set a high bar on purchases.

IGO boss rides lithium rollercoaster with the EV faithful

Large cap miner IGO is one of the faces of the critical metals rout. It’s hit its new CEO harder than most.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Tesla EVs outside the company’s Shanghai factory. Tesla’s China sales have stagnated in recent years.

Foreign car makers also have a China overcapacity problem

With market share stalling, foreign brands from Hyundai and Nissan to Volvo and BMW have started pivoting to exports of their made-in-China vehicles.

  • Edward White
The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is Australia’s No.1-selling car of any type. Around 95 per cent of all RAV4 models sold in August were hybrids.

Car buyers going greener turn to hybrids not full EVs

The No.1 selling vehicle in Australia in August was the Toyota RAV4 hybrid.

  • Simon Evans
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The VW Golf assembly line at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg.

Volkswagen mulls closing German plants for first time in its history

The German brand has faced falling sales, amid decreased demand in Europe, especially for its electric vehicles, and cut-throat competition from China.

  • Melissa Eddy
The first Zeekr, a small SUV known as the X, will be sold in Australia from October.

Your electric car choices are about to explode

The first Zeekr, a small SUV, will be sold from October, and will be followed by as many as 10 other brands from China’s vast portfolio of carmakers.

  • Tony Davis
Only 28 per cent of AFR readers said they make their next vehicle purchase an EV.

‘More for a second-hand toothbrush’: Why EVs are on the nose

The most commonly held concerns about buying an electric vehicle related to upfront cost, charging facilities, and deterioration.

  • Gus McCubbing

August

Australia can’t afford any more delays in the build-out of new generation and transmission without risking blackouts, AEMO said.

Power market ‘beginning to fail’, energy users say

Manufacturers say forecasts for slower EV uptake are a short-term reprieve and that the regular use of voluntary usage cutbacks shows the market isn’t working.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Chinese EV makers can be the stars of auto trade shows while enjoying heavy subsidies.

China’s EVs good for Aussie drivers, bad for global trade war

Inside Australia’s national security and economic agencies, a new vexing issue about China is being discussed.

  • John Kehoe

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