ShinyShiny snippets: Fiat offers £300 e-grant for the electric 500

Fiat will launch its own EV grant as part of a nationwide incentive to encourage customers to buy its electric cars, making it the first manufacturer to do so.  The grant, called Fiat E-Grant, which is immediately available for customers, is worth £3000 and is applicable to purchases of the electric Fiat 500 and Fiat 500C. The Italian…

ShinyShiny snippets: Sales of AR and VR headsets tumble, data shows

Worldwide shipments of virtual and augmented reality headsets dropped 12% to 9.6 million this year according to data from CCS Insight - a problem for Meta and other tech companies that are invested in the digital worlds' potential. VR headset sales in the U.S. also slumped 2% from a year earlier to $1.1 billion as of…