Google sees online car buying as sustainable trend

Google's Christian Richter at the 2022 ANE Congress — “People [seeking an EV] don’t really care if you have 100 years building the best combustion engine in the world because it’s a new product,” Christian Richter, Google’s director of auto retail, told the Automotive News Europe Congress.

July 19, 2022 10:26 AM

PRAGUE -- The number of European car buyers keen to make their purchase online went up significantly during the pandemic and stayed at that level even as freedoms returned, a top Google executive said.

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