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• Google Gemini AI assistant coming to new cars in 2025, starting with Volvo

  24-05-2025 23:00 via drive.com.au
  Recent Volvo models with Google built-in technology will be the first vehicles with the Gemini artificial intelligence assistant, ahead of a wider roll-out.
  Speculative illustration by Drive, not related to or endorsed by Volvo.
  Volvo has announced its recent models will be the first to include Google’s Gemini voice assistant system – including in Australia – as generative artificial-intelligence technology continues to roll out across the automotive industry.Gemini will launch
  
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• Ferrari Purosangue on a budget? Xiaomi launches YU7 SUV with supercar performance

  24-05-2025 01:00 via drive.com.au
  Smartphone company and now car maker, Xiaomi, launches the YU7 – its first SUV – with 3.23-second 0-100km/h acceleration and more than a passing resemblance to the supercar class.Chinese automaker Xiaomi has unveiled the brand’s second model line and first SUV with the 2026 Xiaomi YU7.Despite looking like the SU7 sedan, the brand’s first production model, Xiaomi claim the YU7 SUV is “a completely reimagined SUV from the ground up.”Styling remains clo
  
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• 2026 Toyota RAV4 debuts Tesla-rivalling Arene software

  24-05-2025 00:00 via drive.com.au
  Software will be a key focus for Toyota and its all-new RAV4 as it rolls out its new Arene suite that promises faster performance and over-the-air updates.
  Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
  Toyota’s sixth-generation RAV4 will be the first model from the brand to feature its new Arene software platform, designed to better compete against Chinese and Tesla infotainment systems.Toyota describes Arene as the “first step toward fully software-defined vehicles” and ha
  
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