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Dubai luxury comes to Collins Street: High-end valet parking service launches
14+ hour, 16+ min ago (730+ words) August 2, 2026 — 4:42pm Collins Street shoppers will soon be able to pull up to a car space and toss their keys to a waiting valet, who will park their car in an off-street car park. Traders claim the valet parking scheme, launching…...
Soaring EV sales to shield Australia from fuel shortages
1+ week, 1+ day ago (788+ words) July 25, 2026 — 3:22pm Soaring electric vehicle uptake is materially reducing Australia’s petrol demand, as experts forecast the ongoing global oil crisis could put enough clean cars on the road to leave the country less exposed to future fuel shortages. Fuel prices hit…...
Who is driving electric cars in Brisbane? The suburbs with the most and fewest EVs
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (855+ words) June 15, 2026 — 5:00am The day after being handed the keys to their new BYD electric car Jon Bentley, his wife and their two sons decided to drive interstate. “Driving at night, driving long distance and not knowing how to charge it was…...
Biggest-ever shipment of electric cars arrives in Melbourne
2+ mon, 12+ hour ago (45+ words) SMH.com.au The biggest-ever shipment of electric cars in Australia has arrived in Melbourne, with 5000 Chinese-made EVs ready to hit the road. Updated June 2, 2026 — 6:37pm,first published 6:33pm...
Election year drives Allan government to hand out car rego rebates
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (855+ words) April 26, 2026 — 5:00am Motorists will be able to claim a rebate on vehicle registration fees from June as the Allan government continues to spend up big in next month’s budget ahead of November’s state election. Defying warnings from economists and ratings agencies,…...
Our EV saved us money over Easter. But it required a stressful trade-off
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (508+ words) April 12, 2026 — 5:01am What we didn’t account for was the added time and stress a fully electric car would place on what was supposed to be a relaxing getaway with friends. Setting off from Melbourne at around 9.30am, in Camperdown, two hours west,…...
Demand for electric vehicles surges as discounted loans hit market
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (782+ words) April 1, 2026 — 12:30am Electric vehicle rentals are booming as drivers try to avoid high petrol prices before the Easter long weekend, and one site has reported that bookings for EVs and hybrids increased by 388 per cent one day this month compared with…...
Tesla loses title as world’s biggest EV maker as sales fall for second year
7+ mon, 1+ hour ago (505+ words) Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9 per cent from a year earlier. Chief executive Elon Musk once dismissed Chinese rival BYD as a threat as Tesla’s rise seemed unstoppable.Credit: Bloomberg Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million…...
A safari on foot in the big, bad wilderness is amazing – and nerve-racking
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (1127+ words) I’m more likely to bump into Bruce and Richard than I am an elephant while stomping through head-high elephant grass. Even that’s unlikely, however, because Lawrence knows precisely where these lions were roaming and roaring this morning. The grass crackles,…...
How to choose the right safari experience
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (303+ words) December 27, 2025 — 5:00am A safari holiday in Africa can be one of the magical experiences you’ll have – rising at dawn to watch elephants ford rivers, tracking lions across the open savanna, or spotting a leopard languidly resting in an acacia tree. But…...