My next car will know when I'm in a good mood

It will also know when I'm sad, grumpy, or just plain mad. Okay, it won't quite figure it out on its own — I will have to tell it. How will my car get so smart? Because Gracenote has been working to personalize the music experience in a way that dynamically adapts content to the driver’s mood and musical taste.

It's not just about play-listing locally stored content and displaying album art anymore. The folks at Gracenote can now merge multiple occupants’ music collections and find common ground. They can create stations that incorporate cloud-based content from multiple sources. And they can adapt the nature of the content played in the car to the mood of the occupants through their Mood Grid technology.

This not only makes the music experience intensely personal but it does it automagically, keeping the driver’s eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. Here’s a short video from 2014 CES that provides a quick overview — on a system powered by QNX technology, of course :-)

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Germany February 2014

Waiting for e-Golf

649 EV's were sold this month in Germany, the worst performance since last September, maybe with arrival of the VW e-Golf things will improve.

In the models ranking, the Model S was the best foreigner (#4), behind the home boys (BMW i3 #1, Smart Fortwo ED #2 and VW e-Up! #3), selling 66 units, its best performance to date.

Pl	Germany	Feb	YTD '14	%	'13 Pl
1	BMW i3	179	408	31	5
2	Smart Fortwo ED e)	150	256	19	1
3	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	100	209	16	9
4	Tesla Model S	66	96	7	8
5	Renault Zoe	62	110	8	2
6	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	30	62	5	11
7	Nissan Leaf e)	24	95	7	3
8	Renault Twizy	15	34	3	4
9	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV e)	10	15	1	N/A
	TOTAL	649	1.334	100

e) estimate

Source: kba.de; goingelectric.de

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