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Renault, Google Expand Pact to Make Cars ‘Like Mobile Phones’
- Carmaker aims to deliver remote software updates to new models
- On-demand services to generate new revenue streams, CEO says
The interior of the Renault Megane E-Tech electric vehicle.
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Renault SA is deepening its collaboration with Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a bid to extend capabilities on remote software updates to new models such as the electric Megane E-Tech and Austral.
“We want to make the car an intelligent object that learns and one that can be upgraded over the air like a mobile phone,” Renault Chief Executive Officer Luca de Meo said in an interview.