Over the past decade, Carplay has become widespread in almost all car models. Consumers also love it. In fact, Apple said that earlier 80% of new customers of cars require Carplay as a specification before making a purchase.
However, this argument is less satisfactory when it comes to electric cars. In addition to Tesla or Rivian, almost all electric cars are supplied with the installed CarPlay, but its utility is significantly reduced. Carplay support for routing electric vehicles is simply weak. Apple Really Needs to Step on the Gas and Get Its Act Together …
E ROUTING SUPPORT IS SERIUSLY LACKING
The Most Frustrating Part of this is that it ’ s not actually a Feature Request for Apple for development and engineers for EV routing, the battery chargers and the battery range are evaluated on Apple cards.
These functions actually already exist. Apple did a job. In compatible vehicles of the Apple card through Carplay, they can take into account the current condition of your car, automatically add charging stops for long routes and show the percentage of the battery at each stop of your trip. Apple Maps even integrates the databases of chargers in real time, so you can see how many charging devices are available and whether they are currently free before you arrive.
You can even go to the map settings and choose preferred chargers, so if you have favorites or membership, the card can put priorities in them. And even without a navigation set, if your car battery falls to a low level, Carplay can automatically offer the nearest charger in the range to direct you.
So what is the hall? The main problem is the availability of these functions. This functionality is built in iOS, but it is simply inaccessible to most electric vehicles. Functions require integration between the manufacturer of the car and Apple and, therefore, are available only on the selected number of vehicles. And when I say ‘ Select ’, I'm generous. Despite this support, for the first time in 2021 with iOS 15, there is a full list of current-supported cars for routing EV on Apple maps:
- porsche Taycan
- f150 Lightning
- Ford Mustang Mach-E
The exhaustive list consists of three models on two Car brand. Apple can significantly improve experience in CarPlay in EVS overnight if they expanded support to cover many other models and manufacturers.
In the ideal world, Apple will execute transactions and integrate with all electric cars in the market, which are compatible with Carplay, which are now literally millions of vehicles on the road. More sold every day.
But if this level of automatic integration is impossible for some reason, Apple can at least give more functionality of EV routing to everyone who wants to use it. This would be a more manual process, which requires the owner of the EV to gain the size of the car battery and the current percentage of the car battery before the trip, but something is better than the status -KVO nothing at all.
EV routing, taking into account the percentage of batteries, helps to alleviate the alarm in the range and reduce distracting factors while the driver is on their route, about whether they need to worry about where to stop. Cards can also assume how long you should replenish each charge of charging and give a more accurate ETA assessment before going; Again, these are all existing Apple Maps functions, which are simply unavailable right now if you do not have one of these three of the above -mentioned cars. Using their cards on the Satnav and Apple car in Carplay at the same time.
Although I love the user interface and user experience of Apple maps in general, its usefulness when using it in EV is much worse than when I go with it in a gas car. More cars. Then we can talk about the missing functions for this growing class of users.
One large outstanding omission-Carplay currently does not have the means to start preliminary air conditioning, the process that heats the battery before arriving in a fast charger to improve the charge and reduce the time spent on the charger. Routing through Carplay will not do this, which is especially upset when you find out that it really works for Android Auto users, Google control. Preliminary air conditioning is the functionality of table rates, and Apple is not in the table. The Apple Maps database does not include prices, and you cannot easily view the place in the application and get a review of all nearby chargers and their capabilities. Some drivers want to leave the fastest route to save money at inexpensive charging stations, some want to make more, but shorter stops, while others want to just get to the destination as soon as possible. Apple Maps does not support this level of fine -grained route optimization at all, unlike competitors such as ABRP.
Conclusion
as soon as possible, the experience of the CARPLAY EV for blessed three cars is incomplete and is absent for all the others. Apple should just be better here.
