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The next time you buy a Chevy, your iPhone may no longer be your co-pilot. According to a new report, GM plans to “phase out the use of CarPlay in future EVs as it seeks to ‘gather more data on how consumers drive and charge electric vehicles’.”
Reuters reports that the first General Motors vehicle to drop CarPlay support will be the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer. The company plans to launch a new in-flight navigation system with Google, which has been in development since 2019. GM is moving its entire fleet to “zero emissions” by 2035 and plans to eventually start charging for digital subscription services like Tesla does.
The phase out of CarPlay won’t happen overnight and probably won’t affect millions of GM vehicles, but it’s a marked departure from what has been the standard for cars over the past few years. More than 70 car manufacturers support CarPlay and 600 models, including numerous electric vehicles. However, several well-known electric vehicle manufacturers do not support CarPlay, including Tesla and Rivian.
According to Mike Hichme, GM’s digital cockpit chief executive, the automaker “will have a lot of new driver assistance features that are more closely related to navigation” and won’t “depend on the person with the mobile phone.” It’s unclear from the report if the new system will support Apple Music. Tesla only added support for the Apple Music app to its cars late last year.
Apple announced the next generation of CarPlay at WWDC 2022, which provides “content for all driver screens, including the instrument cluster” and controls vehicle functions such as radio and temperature control. Apple says car announcements will arrive in late 2023, but it’s safe to assume a range of electric vehicles will be one of the first partnerships.