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German automaker Volkswagen AG will pay as much as $15.3 billion after admitting it cheated on U.S. diesel emissions tests for years, agreeing to buy back vehicles from consumers and provide funding that could benefit makers of cleaner technologies.

While most car manufacturers have released apps connecting vehicles and smartphones, L2’s Digital IQ Index: Auto finds that they’re often short on basic functionalities.

Fuelled in part by growth in the deployment of smartphone integration systems, SBD predicts in-car infotainment services, such as news, weather, social networking and music streaming, will be very popular, supported by 32.1 million cars sold in 2018.

According to a German business magazine, Apple executives visited the i3 production line in Leipzig, Germany, and studied the vehicle's carbon-fiber body construction as a basis for an electric car project.

C.A.S.E. which stands for connected, autonomous, shared, electrified, will be the future of the industry and calls for significant additional investments, and in order to finance C.A.S.E., a new phase of consolidation and partnerships is expected in the global auto industry.