Google May Help You Finance Your 1st Electric Car


Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles.

Originally published on EV Obsession.

Google’s extensive suite of online tools will soon include a new interactive car loan payment estimation tool, according to recent reports.

Google

The new tool is currently being tested by the company, and seems to look a fair amount like Google’s other related offerings — going by the image below (courtesy of Moz):

Google payments

Search Engine Land provides more:

Google is testing a new loan interactive calculator for car payments. This was spotted by both Dr Pete Meyers and Kyle Sanders recently. It looks and feels a lot like the Google mortgage calculator feature that Google launched in February of this year. As you can see, you can enter the loan amount, the interest rate and the period of the loan, and then Google will show you your monthly payments. You can also toggle to see the maximum loan amount, as well.

Will we soon see car loans through Google or maybe a way to buy, lease or finance your new car through Google Comparison AdWords Ads? Maybe?

Interesting theories, but the new online tool could simply be a result of Google’s desire to expand its offerings. Or, of course, it could have something to do with a Google Car….


Sign up for CleanTechnica's Weekly Substack for Zach and Scott's in-depth analyses and high level summaries, sign up for our daily newsletter, and follow us on Google News!
Advertisement
 
Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Want to advertise? Want to suggest a guest for our CleanTech Talk podcast? Contact us here.
Sign up for our daily newsletter for 10–15 new cleantech stories a day. Or sign up for our weekly one on top stories of the week if daily is too frequent.

CleanTechnica uses affiliate links. See our policy here.

CleanTechnica's Comment Policy


James Ayre

James Ayre's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy.

James Ayre has 4830 posts and counting. See all posts by James Ayre