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Microsoft Band 2 used to talk to Volvo cars

Volvo and Microsoft Talk to Their Cars

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More than 33 years after the popular American TV show Knight Rider showed David ‘The Hoff’ Hasselhoff talking to his car, KITT, Volvo and Microsoft are launching a wearable-enabled voice-control system.

Volvo owners will be able to talk to their car via their Microsoft Band 2, allowing them to instruct their vehicle to perform tasks including setting the navigation, starting the heater, locking the doors, flashing the lights or…

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Mercedes-Benz Electric Drive

Mercedes-Benz USA Install PlugShare App into B-Class

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Mercedes-Benz’s B-Class electric has been on sale in the United States for a few months now, complete with online configurator. Mercedes, or rather parent company Daimler, have teamed up with popular app PlugShare. Recargo is the company behind the popular PlugShare service which lists charging stations worldwide and boasts more than 120,000 active users. For

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POLAR instant app

New POLAR App Does Away with RFID Cards for EV Charging

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Chargemaster is launching a new smartphone app to change the way drivers charge their electric vehicles. The POLAR Instant app, which is available now on the Apple iPhone and will be coming to Android smartphones from early May, provides EV drivers with instant access to the UK’s largest publicly available network of charging points, without the need

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Mercedes-Benz announces strategic partnership with Pebble Technology

Mercedes-Benz Partners with Pebble Technology to produce Smart Watch

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Intelligent connectivity: At CES Mercedes-Benz gives a glimpse of the future Mercedes-Benz announces strategic partnership with Pebble Technology Wearable device integration: enhanced vehicle diagnostic awareness and multisensory notifications Stuttgart, Germany. Mercedes-Benz has announced a strategic partnership with Pebble Technology in the run-up to the 2014 International CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world.

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BMW i3 "Become Electric"

Star in Your Own Hollywood-Style Action Movie with the BMW i3

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BMW today launched the world’s first 360° interactive film offering potential customers a virtual test-drive of the brand’s first-ever electric vehicle, the BMW i3. The film, which can be downloaded to smartphones and tablets (around 300+ MB in size), invites users to assume the position of the driver and supporting actor in a dramatic, fast-paced

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Review: Charge Your Car App

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Launched in July 2013, the free Charge Your Car (CYC) app is a world-first in app technology using emerging state-of-the-art charge point management, mapping and mobile payment technologies to allow users to find charge points, plan a route, start and stop a session and, uniquely, pay for a charge at all app-ready charge points across

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