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GM electric-car goals, EPA test worries, 5-minute battery recharge, Google vs Uber: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Romania has doubled its electric-car purchase incentives; they're now more than $10,000 for a new car. Today, uncertainty over EPA emission testing, GM's electric-car goal, concern over the fate of more capable start-stop systems, and a 5-minute battery recharge? All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

EV Info

With research based entirely on Google Search records this can not be deemed as highly significant, however it’s good clean fun. average monthly Google searches each) and in Russia, the top spot is a tie between BMW and Mercedes-Benz. This help to show that BMW is more of a bank than a car company.

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Zinnov: automotive witnessing highest disruption among all industries; ~$6B invested in start-ups in FY 2015

Green Car Congress

Tech Mafia—Google, Apple have invested billions of dollars in user experience. New technologies such as Autonomous, AI, Electric have reached application maturity. New OEMs such as Tesla, Next EV have changed the way cars are conceived, built and sold.

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Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

Cars That Think

Google Street View tours of desolate mountain villages in Tohoku, the northern (and the poorest) part of Japan's largest island, where almost every third person is now over 65 years old. You can see what is left behind without leaving your room by taking.

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