Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.

BYD’s smallest and cheapest electric car gets LiDAR self-driving tech

BYD to offer LiDAR sensors to help upgrade autonomous driving tech in its smallest and lowest cost EVs, indicating a step change in the ability to bring the technology to the mass market.

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Geely unveils purpose-built electric robotaxi as AI race heats up

Geely unveils a purpose-built electric robotaxi prototype in Beijing, previewing a future EV technology stack built around ultra-fast charging, solid-state batteries and AI computing power.

2 min

Autonomous Vehicles

First Tesla Cybercab with production VIN rolls off production line

Tesla's first production version of its two-seater Robotaxi rolls off production line in Texas, marking major milestone.

2 min

Electric trucks in China have already ditched diesel, now they’re ditching the driver

While Australia debates electrification of its road freight, China has already electrified much of its trucking fleet, and now it’s removing the driver.

3 min

Musk delays release of Roadster, Optimus and unsupervised FSD, as Tesla margins jump

Musk announces delay on release of Roadster, Optimus robot and FSD, and says that new "micro-factories" will be needed to upgrade older Tesla EVs for full self driving.

2 min

Autonomous Vehicles

Bumpy path predicted for self-driving cars in Australia

Australia could cut emissions and car parks by introducing self-driving cars, but the technology could also have unexpected negative effects on roads, a new study finds.

2 min

Autonomous Vehicles

Australian company lands $158 million to build GPS alternative for self-driving cars

Cars, rockets and mining vehicles could drive themselves even when the global positioning system goes dark if a Sydney company succeeds in its mission.