The American group General Motors announces that these next electric vehicles will skip CarPlay in favor of Google’s integrated solution.
Bye bye CarPlay in the future electric vehicles of the General Motors group
What could pass for a slightly premature April Fool’s joke definitely doesn’t seem to be. According to our colleagues at Portal, The General Motors group would no longer integrate CarPlay into its electric vehicles from 2024 with the Chevrolet Blazer (thermal vehicles are to continue to offer CarPlay). The automaker has partnered with Google since 2019 to offer Android Automotive to collect more data on how consumers drive and charge their electric vehicles. Be careful not to confuse Android Auto and Android Automotive. If the former is the counterpart to the Google version CarPlay (and vice versa), Android Automotive is a full-fledged operating system that does not require a connection to a smartphone and allows access to the various settings and information transmitted directly from the vehicle. B. the speed, the air conditioning setting or even the consumption or the state of charge of the battery (thereby providing a satisfactory charging plan).
A Big Money Story?
According to General Motors, the idea would be to be able to develop new functionalities without having to worry about the brand of the user’s smartphone. The main thing would be to be able to offer paid features (Renault and Google had discussed personalized insurance solutions based on driver behavior behind the wheel and actual use of the vehicle). with nice profits as the company targets annual subscription revenue of between $20 billion and $25 billion by 2030. This turnaround is quite interesting since with iOS 16 Apple had announced a new version of CarPlay that is closer to Android Automotive, more integrated and able to take advantage of certain information provided by the vehicle. Several manufacturers, including BMW, Renault and Polestar, have already targeted Android Automotive, which could throw a spanner in the works for Apple and its new version of CarPlay, which approaches Google’s onboard system (though that’s still possible). all these little people together). A small-car infotainment war is evolving, and manufacturers must choose between an in-house developed system like Tesla offers and on-board solutions from tech giants.
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