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Vehicle shipping crisis to extend new car delivery times in Australia

CarExpert

Just as the supply of new vehicles catches up with demand, leading to an all-time Australian market record in 2024 , fresh industrial action at shipping ports around the country is threatening to put the brakes on deliveries of new cars. Calculate all the ships waiting to dock. We are being held to ransom.

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Is This Jeff Bezos’ $25K Electric Pickup Or Something Else?

Carscoops

More: Jeff Bezos Secretly Backs EV Maker Building A $25K Pickup For The Masses The image, posted to Reddit by user Discostranger09 , shows the pickup truck being unloaded from a shipping container just outside their office. Is This Slate Auto’s First Prototype? Naturally, Redditors were quick to speculate.

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Authorities Warn Consumers Of Scammers Creating Fake Car Dealer Websites

Carscoops

The advertised vehicles may be listed at below market value causing interested consumers to take the bait.” The buyer might receive a bill of sale and several photos of a vehicle and agree to purchase by wire transfer , believing the seller will ship the car to them. However, there is nothing legitimate about it.

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China’s EV Giant BYD Now Exports Cars In Its Own Purpose-Built Mega-Ship

Carscoops

This month, the first Chinese-built cargo ship built explicitly for vehicle exports set sail and is bound for Europe. 1 can transport up to 7,000 vehicles and, as the name implies, was commissioned by BYD. The ship set sail in Longkou, a port city in northeastern China, and stopped in Yantai on January 9. The BYD Explorer No.

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Toyota diesel engines cleared by authorities, shipping ban lifted after test cheating admission

Drive.com

Three Toyota diesel engines – the certification testing of which Toyota publicly admitted to finding “inconsistencies” in , and modifications not included to customer vehicles – have been cleared by Japanese authorities, with a government order to halt shipping now lifted.

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BYD aims to replace Routemaster with 400-mile EV London bus

Autocar

BYD remains tight-lipped on precise commercial objectives and volume projections, given the sensitivities around public transport tendering processes, but BYD UK's commercial vehicle managing director Frank Thorpe said he "hopes" it can replace Wrightbus's New Routemaster as the default London bus.

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Citroen will sell you this two-headed van

CarExpert

The two front ends of the Citroen vans are bolted together at the chassis and shipped to third-party manufacturers of motorhomes, recovery vehicles and other cab-chassis-based vehicles which use custom rear attachments. As it turns out, this trend isn’t new either, though it seems to have only been adopted by French brands.