I know nothing about cars. I don’t even know how to drive. So obviously my guest today is freelance motoring journalist and editor of The Redline, Peter Anderson — because a lot has been happening in the auto industry, right? I might learn something.
In this episode we talk about cars. Obviously. Especially about the gradual but inevitable shift to electric vehicles. There’s the rise of China’s auto manufacturing industry, and other countries too, and of course that man and his electric car company and his $1 trillion compensation package.
We also discuss contentment and what it means for us, as well as the joy of minimalism, and even bipolar II disorder.
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Peter Anderson likes to think he’s a writer, raconteur and broadcaster. He’s been writing about cars for a very long time now. His work has been featured on The Motor Report, CarsGuide.com.au, and Car Showroom. In print he has been in The Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph and Box Magazine. He likes all sorts of cars, not just the fast ones but who doesn’t love the fast ones?
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Here at The Redline we write about cars with an eye on what they’re like to drive, not just how many cupholders they’ve got. We like cars. We like to like cars.
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[9 November 2025] Data from peak motoring body shows battery-electric vehicles accounted for 9.7% of new cars sold in September quarter, the highest proportion on record.
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The Toyota RAV4 (Japanese: トヨタ・RAV4, Hepburn: Toyota Ravufō) is a compact crossover SUV produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. It is known for starting the wave of compact crossovers.
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[10 November 2025] Australian drivers are buying more electric and hybrid vehicles than ever and experts say they are forcing down petrol and diesel car sales.
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[9 September 2024] Over the past few months, a narrative has developed in the media that electric car sales are slowing. As a regular on ABC Radio Sydney, talkback callers take every chance they can to tell me they saw a thing on Facebook where there are fields full of unsold electric cars in China. Well, there probably are. They’re probably waiting to be shipped somewhere to be actually sold. A huge number of EVs are made in China and by brands you probably don’t expect – Volvo, Polestar, BMW and Tesla are just four literally off the top of my head.
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[11 November 2025] If you live in a big city, finding a charger for your electric vehicle (EV) isn’t hard. But drive a few hours in any direction and the story changes.
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The Driven publishes detailed sales data for Australian battery electric vehicle sales on this page. Data is sourced from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) report known as VFacts, the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), as well as individual companies. This page will be updated as new data is released each month, and as new information comes to hand. It is designed to be a reference point for the industry and consumers alike.
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[22 October 2025] A new electric vehicle has arrived in Australia that costs under $25,000, not only being the cheapest EV on the market, but also one of the lowest-priced cars.
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[12 November 2025] Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approved a $1 trillion pay package intended to keep Elon Musk in charge of the company for the next decade, as the automaker enters a new phase defined by bets on artificial intelligence.
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[12 November 2025] After approving Elon Musk's pay package, the company that built the EV era is betting it can build the next one — with robots, data, and belief.
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You know, like, I think we may… we might may be able to give people a more… if somebody’s committed crime, a more humane form of containment of future crime, which is if you… you say, like, you now get a… you now get a free Optimus, and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. But other than that, you get to do anything. It’s just going to stop you from committing crime. That’s really it. You don’t have to put people in like prisons and stuff, I think.
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[13 November 2025] Australian pricing has been confirmed for the BYD ATTO 1 four-seat electric hatchback, with prices starting from $23,990 before on-road costs.
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Bipolar II is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Patients usually seek help when they are in a depressed state, or when their hypomanic symptoms manifest themselves in unwanted effects, such as high levels of anxiety, or the seeming inability to focus on tasks. Because many of the symptoms of hypomania are often mistaken for high functioning behavior or simply attributed to personality, patients are typically not aware of their hypomanic symptoms.
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While we all experience mood changes in response to life’s events, some people’s moods fluctuate up and down much more than usual. People with bipolar disorder can have extreme moods of feeling really high, very active and euphoric (‘manic’); or feeling really low (‘depression’).
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[6 November 2025] The Toyota HiLux only just kept the Ford Ranger off the top spot, 4444 sales versus 4402. Toyota gets the last laugh on the podium, however, taking third with the RAV4 at 4401, just one sale behind the Ranger
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[7 November 2025] The same Chinese company that makes electric buses now under review in Denmark and Norway also has buses on Australian roads, sparking concern among cybersecurity experts. Norwegian transport operator Ruter published test results last week that showed bus-maker Yutong Group had access to buses' control systems for software updates and diagnostics on the model they tested.
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