QNX-powered 2015 Audi TT named best-connected car

Is it innovative, beautiful, versatile, or just plain cool? I haven’t quite decided, so I’m thinking it’s all of the above. The QNX-based virtual cockpit in the 2015 Audi TT is a ravishing piece of automotive technology, and it brings driver convenience to a new level by integrating everything from speed and navigation to music and handsfree calling — all in a single, user-configurable display.

It seems I’m not the only one who's impressed. Because last week, 42,500 readers of “auto motor und sport” and “CHIP” chose the Audi TT as the industry's best-connected car. In fact, Audi took top honors in several categories, including navigation, telephone integration, sound system, entertainment/multimedia, and connected car.

To get an idea of what all the fuss is about, check out our video of the Audi TT’s virtual cockpit in action. We filmed this at CES earlier this year:



For more information on the award and the Audi TT, read Audi's press release.

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Europe June 2014 (2nd Update)

Always nice to be on the riverside...

Four in Four Edition

With 8.496 units sold in June, the European EV market grew 90% regarding the same month last year, continuing the solid growth that has been experiencing throughout the year.

Looking at the models ranking, the Outlander PHEV was again the Best Seller of the month, with 1.833 units, distancing itself from the #2 Nissan Leaf (1.131 units sold).

For the first time this year, four cars sold in the thousands, with the aforementioned Outlander PHEV and Nissan Leaf being two of them, but also the Tesla Model S (1.135 units) and the Renault Zoe (1.016) did it, a special mention for the french hatch performance, since it's only the third time it reaches this kind of sales, and it had been twelve months since the last time it did (1.358 units in June '13), this brilliant performance allowed it to jump two positions in the YTD ranking to #5.

Final mention for two newcomers, the VW e-Golf is slowly climbing its way into the Top 10 and the BMW i8  sports car already appears at the bottom of this new Top 25 (5 more than before) ranking, with 60 registrations.

Pl	Europe	June	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.833	9.038	20	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1.131	7.109	16	1
3	Tesla Model S	1.135	5.330	12	7
4	BMW i3	731	4.762	11	12
5	Renault Zoe	1.016	3.669	8	2
6	Volkswagen e-Up!	498	3.487	8	11
7	Volvo V60 Plug-In	346	3.274	7	4
8	Renault Kangoo ZE	544	2.028	4	5
9	Smart Fortwo ED	222	1.126	3	9
10	Renault Twizy	320	1.066	2	10
11	Bolloré Blue Car	82	531	1	16
12	Citröen C-Zero	101	457	1	15
13	Toyota Prius Plug-In	59	456	1	12
14 15 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25	Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Golf Opel Ampera Peugeot iOn Porsche Panamera Plug-In Goupil G3 Peugeot Partner EV Citröen Berlingo EV Nissan e-NV200 Ford Focus Electric Renault Fluence ZE BMW i8	57 166 29 76 13 28 30 24 58 9 12 28	372 343 343 305 245 198 174 125 110 91 61 60	1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	14 N/A 8 18 21     17 22 N/A N/A 24 19 N/A
	TOTAL	8.496	44.845

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