BBC - Autos - The month in tech: Google readies Android invasion - 0 views
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At its recent developer conference, Google launched its Android Auto system
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Android Auto allows drivers to access navigation, music and communications through voice commands and steering wheel controls.
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Google has partnered with roughly 30 automotive manufacturers to bring the system to market, relieving carmakers of development costs associated with creating their own infotainment system back-ends. Apple's CarPlay system, meanwhile, will be available in many carmakers' 2015 models, among them Hyundai, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz.
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The FCV will go on sale in Japan first, in April 2015, for the equivalent of about $70,000, with US and European launches planned for the summer.
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the FCV would only go on sale in areas like California and Germany, where adequate hydrogen refueling stations and delivery infrastructure existed