Recharge Wrap-up: vehicle electrification future, Indonesia biodiesel growth

Navigant Research expects electrified vehicles (including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles) to reach 6 million sales in 2024. That's up from 2.6 million sales in 2015. About half of those sales will be plug-in vehicles in 2024, up from 19 percent in 2015.

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Ford recalls 9,900 vehicles across two campaigns

Ford is recalling a total of 9,885 vehicles in two campaigns.

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The world likely bought a half-million plug-in vehicles in 2015

2015 looks to be a landmark year for the plug-in vehicle industry. That's because global sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are slated to eclipse the half-million-unit mark this year, according to the most comprehensive tracker of plug-in vehicle sales we know of, EV Sales. And the world's largest maker of plug-ins will indeed be based in China.

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Cheap gas prices make for short memories

I took the call from a friend in Detroit, my former hometown. A call that, with winter upon us, usually involves a despairing (but secretly satisfied) accounting of brutal snowfall or bone-cracking temperatures. But this year's call involved the pleasant, nay, party-down mathematics of gasoline prices: "It's $1.78 a gallon down the street here," my friend said. He then joked about buying a Hummer.

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BMW teases Airtouch gesture-based infotainment ahead of CES

At the last Consumer Electronics Show BMW revealed a gesture control system that employed a 3D sensor in the roof of a car to read hand movements made in front of the dashboard. That appearance in Las Vegas was a tease for the system we'd get in the brand new 7 Series. At next month's CES BMW will showcase a "Vision Car" with a concept interior of the future that incorporates the evolution of the current gesture system. It is called Airtouch.

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