Connected-Car Sales Set to Cross 6 Million This Quarter: Chart

(Bloomberg) -- Sales of new cars with built-in cellular-network connectivity, which have hovered about 5.9 million a quarter since the beginning of the year, will break through that level in the fourth quarter, according to Bloomberg NEF. That will increase to 7 million a quarter in 2019, and by 2025 most carmakers plan to have more than 90 percent of their new models connected, BNEF said.

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