Tado’s new thermostat is designed as a Nest killer

Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove “significant sales” for Tado, Christian Deilmann, cofounder and managing director of Tado, told The Verge in an interview. The third-generation Nest has at least 10 times the penetration in Europe, he says. And while Google still supports it, Deilmann sees the writing on the wall. “At some point, I think they will continue their strategy,” he says. “There’s nothing we know for sure … but it doesn’t…