Jet Charge and Ikea complete one of Australia’s biggest electric delivery vehicle charging networks

The Australian branch of Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has completed one of the country’s biggest charging networks for electric delivery vehicles thanks to a partnership with leading electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and technology company Jet Charge.

Just in time to support Ikea’s goal of electrifying its fleet of delivery vehicles by the end of 2025, Jet Charge announced this week that it had completed the mammoth EV charging project, installing 59 EV chargers across 7 Ikea locations around Australia for use by Ikea’s delivery partners.

The new charging network is expected to act as the necessary backbone to accelerate Ikea Australia’s goal of reaching 100 per cent zero-emission deliveries.

Currently, 83 per cent of Ikea Australia deliveries are being completed by zero-emission vehicles, with the company expecting to reach 90 per cent by the year’s end – just short of its original goal announced back in early 2019.

Among the solutions Jet Charge used to deliver Ikea’s new charging network was the implementation of smart load management for future proofing and managing energy constraints across the seven Ikea sites.

Ikea currently has ten locations across Australia, with charging infrastructure now located at its stores in Tempe (NSW), Rhodes (NSW), Marsden Park (NSW), Canberra (ACT), Springvale (Vic), and North Lakes (Qld), as well as the Sydney customer distribution centre in Marsden Park.

Further implementation of the charging network is currently also planned for Ikea’s stores in Richmond (Vic) and Logan (Qld).

The charging network also features a Chargefox billing system, allowing all third-party drivers to pay for charging sessions while reimbursing Ikea for electricity usage.

I also like that the Ikea customer car parks now have EV charging bays.

With Nvidia’s second-best AI chips headed for China, the US shifts priorities from security to trade

This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.

In return, the US government will receive 25% of the sales revenue, in what has become a hallmark of this administration to take a sales cut of a private company’s revenues.

The H200 is Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI processor. It’s roughly six times more capable than the H20 chips previously available to buyers in China.

These aren’t consumer gadgets powering the latest cat meme generator or helping you with the weekly pub quiz. They’re the computational engines behind advanced AI systems that increasingly drive autonomous weapons. This includes drone navigation systems, automatic gun emplacements and targeting algorithms in modern warfare.

Think less the futuristic world of the Terminator movies, more the very real AI-powered targeting systems already being deployed, including in Ukraine and Gaza.

At the end of a year that has seen the US and China locked in a bitter trade war in which Trump lifted tariffs on China as high as 145% at one point, the decision to allow these sensitive exports is stunning.

This policy reversal fundamentally challenges how export controls work. It also raises urgent questions for US allies such as Australia, caught between economic dependence on China and deepening defence alignment with an increasingly unpredictable United States.

He'll happily sell US secrets. It's legal when the president does it! And it's impossible for the president to commit treason if the supreme court backs him up.