Vehicles

Coming to Australian roads in July, the new Tesla Model 3 Performance was officially announced yesterday and is now available to order. The new car features many new upgrades over the first Model 3 Performance offered in Australia in late 2019. The Model 3 Performance, All-Wheel Drive features a 528km range (WLPT), a top speed of 262 km/h and faster 0-100 km/h time of...

Today, Tesla has been vindicated in a multi-year legal battle in Victoria. In March 2022, Sakshi Agrawal claimed her Tesla was on Autopilot when she struck a nurse boarding a tram in Melbourne. After the accident she drove off and was later charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, failure to stop at the scene of an accident and failure to render assistance. ABC has...

Distracted driving and fatigue is a massive challenge on our roads and Teletrac Navman has announced a device to reduce the occurrences in an effort to reduce accidents and save lives. Avoiding driver distraction, cell phone usage, and drowsy driver detection is possible thanks to its AI-powered dashcam and video telematics solution, the IQ Camera, for fleet safety. AI-powered video telematics solutions leverage advanced algorithms to monitor...

I recently had the chance to spend a week with the 2024 Tesla Model 3 Highland Refresh and now it's time to detail my thoughts in a full review. The first major update to the Model 3 since its inception more than 5 years ago is a big one, while the car shares the same nameplate, the car features changes to almost every part of...

The regional Victorian town of Chiltern is this weekend playing host to the Off-Grid Living Festival, a major event for the town. Running since 2018, the event features a wide range of electric vehicles and renewable energy. Having attended the event this morning, I was blown away at the scale, with a massive carpark and large event space, held at the Chiltern Racecourse and...

A good sign of the progress made in electric vehicle adoption in Australia is the continued rollout of DC fast charging infrastructure to more locations. One of the newest locations is Chiltern, VIC a small regional Victorian town with a population of just 1,580 people (2021 census). When Electric Vehicles first started arriving in Australia, charging infrastructure kicked off at strategic locations along our...

This weekend, Melbourne is playing host to the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2024. To kick off the event in style, Aussie-own Red Bull Racing driver, Daniel Ricciardo cut some laps around the Albert Park Circuit. This drive was particularly of note as Danny Ric piloted the ridiculous 2,000hp SuperVan 4.2 from Ford Performance, an all-electric demonstrator. Ricciardo's internationally famous big smile was on...

JerryRigEverything is a successful YouTube channel that has accumulated 8.5 million subscribers since starting back in July 2012. Creator Zack Nelson often posts entertaining, well-researched videos every few days, but a few days ago began posting a series of out-of-character posts on X. The posts firmly targeted one company, Tesla, being particularly critical of their Full Self-Driving software package. He isn't the first and...