At www.ascca.com.au you'll learn about the 23rd Annual Technology Conference for Seniors, which is being opened by special VIP Guest and much loved entertainer Kamahl! ASCCA is the Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association, and is the peak body for Seniors and Technology in Australia. Charlie Brown, host of the very successful and wide-reaching Life and Technology https://lifeandtechnology.com.au radio show in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and more, generously gave the ASCCA conference some time on his radio show, and spoke with ASCCA's Alex Zaharov-Reutt to learn more. The event has quality speakers from the CSIRO, NBN Co, Google, the eSafety Commissioner, BeConnected, two great Australia computer and tech user groups, Charlie Brown will present his his incredibly popular "Trends in Technology" presentation, along with G Mee for Seniors usage scenarios, there's the incredible free Accessible Telecoms service from ACCAN, Max Markson talking about Mental Moments, Alex Zaharov-Reutt as closing keynote speaker, ASCCA Founder Nan Bosler to close the conference, and plenty more. You can buy a ticket at $30 from the ASCCA website and then clicking on the conference image and link to be taken to the Humanitix page. Prizes will be determined on the day during the live event, only paid attendees can win one of the brilliant prizes on offer thanks to generous sponsorship from HMD Global and Acronis. HMD Global has donated five incredible prizes! There are three Nokia X20 smartphones, one special Nokia XR20 with Nokia noise cancelling earbuds combo, and one Nokia T20 tablet. There are also ten copies of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office to be won, with each copy a 5-user license to protect your computers, smartphones and tablets, sharing 1TB of cloud storage. It's going to be a great conference with great info, not just for seniors, but applicable to adults and kids, too, so please visit ASCCA to learn more! www.ascca.org.au ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VudR1_ddyKo

BYD Automotive's Australian Chairman Luke Todd shares the BYD story, explains EV (electric vehicle) excellence, covers cost comparisons and more! Electric vehicles have made a huge impact and are more visible on roads globally than ever before, packed with impressive technologies that substantially elevate the driving experience, and with BYD in the No.2 spot in Australia, what's the future for this impressive car company? Ok, so I want to start by saying that I personally believe cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) will still be with us for many years to come, even though electric cars are clearly the future, and there are more of them on the roads than ever before. I say this because regular petrol-powered cars are cheaper than electric cars, and certainly cheaper at a second hand level than EVs, and even thought jurisdictions like the Australian Capital Territory are banning ICE car sales by 2035, they're not actually banning ICE cars from the roads. With today's mining and battery technologies, at least, there are also valid questions about whether the amount of mining the planet does can create the number of batteries needed to equip BILLIONS of EVs we'll eventually need for everyone. And despite the very cogent argument Luke makes for EV charging costs being lower than the cost of filing up your existing car with a tank of fuel, rising electricity prices make recharging your car less affordable than in the past, but again, technology continually advances, and there is absolutely ho question at all that electric vehicles are the future. Of course, there are already many millions of electric cars around the world, with BYD Automotive https://bydautomotive.com.au already in the No.2 spot in Australia, and with BYD in Australia having appointed a range of new celebrity ambassadors recently, the brand is only going to get even more visible and popular. Indeed, with 12 BYD Experience Centres https://bydautomotive.com.au/experience-centres either already open or opening soon across Australia, and the flagship BYD Automotive experience centre at 50 Riley St, Darlinghurst already having been open for quite some time, the brand is growing as fast as it can. Indeed, BYD's recent growth has been limited only by the same factors affecting every other car company in Australia - the speed at which cars are being processed when arriving in Australia by the relevant customs authorities to be released to dealers and customers being massively slower than the number of cars being unloaded from ships every day. But for those that have received their electric cars, the response seems universal - owners fall in love with them. My neighbour has a Nissan Leaf which he is so happy with, other EV owners I know wouldn't go back to traditional cars, and my cousin in Hong Kong has a fantastic Tesla that is superb, and a LOT cheaper to run with electricity than the approximately AUD $5 per litre of petrol that HK citizens pay for fuel, and electric cars from more companies are coming onto the market. BYD Automotive has also been in the battery business for decades, as local BYD Automotive Chairman and CEO of EVDirect Luke Todd https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-todd-19348758/ explains in the video interview below, with BYD also in the electric vehicle business for many, many years too, with the BYD Atto 3 https://bydautomotive.com.au/atto-3 being the Drive Car of the Year 2023 - best EV under $70K https://www.drive.com.au/reviews/2023-byd-atto-3-review-dcoty-2023-best-ev-under-70000/ a clearly impressive achievement, and with more BYD models to come later in the year. So, in the afternoon before a major BYD Automotive event held in Sydney last month, celebrating a number of new BYD ambassadors in Australia and more, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Luke Todd to learn a lot more about electric cars, BYD, cost comparisons, BYD's history and much more, and I urge you to watch the video for yourself - we had a really great and electrifying discussion, and I'm sure you will enjoy it! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zou1huNNc