OMG and on a recent road trip it was inexplicably adding 4.5hrs to a segment Apple Maps said would only take less than 45min. I followed Apple’s guidance via BT and not only does it provide better navigation it‘s voice guidance/prompts are more intuitive. Got to our final destination before dark. If we’d followed Rivian’s we would have gotten there after midnight!
Yes this is one of the outcomes of the Apple Car project, they had to make all the UI models for standard car functions so Ultra is that brand customized. -- it is great stuff and if you don't mind handing over control of your UI to a 3rd party its great. Very smart for AM as they never had good UI systems and most of them were way way behind. -- Pretty sure we will never see this at Rivian, they are 100% end-to-end hardware & software company.
Apple CarPlay Ultra would literally make the Rivian product line perfect. They’d be unbeatable.
The one glaring issue is it still requires a secondary device to operate properly.
Echoing this, CarPlay on the Mach-E isn’t “Ultra” but it’s pretty great. And – funny, given the early criticisms of Apple Maps – navigation in CarPlay is so much better than Rivian’s mapping, in terms of both routing and the overall UI. Can’t wait for EVPlay.
Going to have to disagree on this one.. Carplay in the Mach-E is not at all great. Passing of directions from infotainment to drivers screen is extremely limited and last minute which means you have to look over at infotainment screen (and even that only works for Apple Maps), there is no integration of car functions with carplay so you bounce in and out of an app, and on roadtrips the car only preconditions the battery if you use the native navigation system so you again have to bounce between apps and the native OS to do anything.
Just preorder EVPlay. It runs in "parallel with the Rivian UI. With a push of a button can swap back and forth instantly. Does both Android Auto and Apple Carplay.
For some reason I completely missed everything about EVPlay. Looks interesting, but for me that's a big chunk of change to put down on something that is still in such an early stage. I'll definitely be following the development, and see what people are ae to accomplish with it to determine if it's worth the investment for me. A lot of what's described seems like it would be more efficiently done on a laptop, so right now it's just the AA and media options that speak to me. And while those would be great, they're not $400+ great.
Yeah, Rivian’s navigation progress is generally two steps forward and one step back. Rivian navigation has been suggesting this route over the last several weeks for no apparent reason:
