GM has made its stance clear on the way forward for equipping its automobiles with Android Auto and CarPlay. It gained’t be. Nonetheless, a intelligent third-party equipment guarantees to revive the performance.
In March of final yr, GM introduced that its future automobiles wouldn’t help CarPlay or phone-projected Android Auto, as a substitute adopting Google’s Android Automotive platform. The choice was met with overwhelming negativity from customers, and has led to GM having to defend the choice time and again.
Nonetheless, for drivers nonetheless within the automobiles that GM is eradicating CarPlay and Android Auto from, a third-party equipment is making it attainable.
White Automotive & Media Companies (WAMS), a small enterprise based mostly in Michigan, introduced a brand new equipment that enables Android Auto and CarPlay to work inside GM’s new Ultium EVs, those that lack these platforms within the first place. The equipment works with the Chevy Blazer EV, Equinox EV, Silverado EV and connects into each the primary show and the instrument cluster for navigation.
This improve contains totally built-in wired and wi-fi CarPlay and Android Auto in all of the methods you’ve come to anticipate (and a few you haven’t!) with out compromising any current options or performance. Full onscreen CarPlay and Android Auto, totally built-in Infotainment show supply menu integration in addition to Instrument Cluster media show/now enjoying, supply lists and so forth. Even full Apple Maps integration within the Instrument Cluster and Flip-by-Flip Navigation directions on the HUD (if geared up).
Pricing on the equipment isn’t talked about, and it’s additionally very restricted to date when it comes to areas the place it may be put in. To date, it’s solely accessible via a Chevrolet supplier in Plymouth, Michigan. That’s as a result of WAMS believes that “the absolute best buyer expertise can solely be achieved by providing this improve via an OEM supplier that’s as much as the duty of not solely meticulously upgrading your EV but additionally one that may proceed to offer stellar service after the very fact.” Nonetheless, it’s talked about that “extra areas” will comply with.
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