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[theonetruestripes]

Um… you’re saying EV unaware. This doesn’t look EV unaware to me.

Well.....they went and added that between my first EV (Bolt which did CarPlay) and my 2nd & 3rd EVs which do not (Tesla Model Y, sold to as part of the upgrade to the R1S)...and looks like they didn’t make any sort of announcement that I noticed during WWDC or the iPhone event (I watch both carefully, not so much because I’m an ex-Apple employee, but I’m a current iOS/iPadOS dev).

so many more options and functions that improve over Rivian’s oversimplified Nav app

Simplified is generally the name of the game for mass market software products. So I wouldn’t expect anything Apple adds directly to Maps to be even as feature rich as Rivian’s built in nav.

Simplification gets you to focus on what an app really needs to do, and provides less cover for why it doesn’t do that. Focuses the testing as well as implementation effort onto the parts that matter (by not shipping the parts that don’t). I mean is sucks if whatever gets simplified out is something you personally had a use case for, but it is fantastic if actually cuts all the fat you didn’t care about.

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[Riviaenz]

Well.....they went and added that between my first EV (Bolt which did CarPlay) and my 2nd & 3rd EVs which do not (Tesla Model Y, sold to as part of the upgrade to the R1S)...and looks like they didn’t make any sort of announcement that I noticed during WWDC or the iPhone event (I watch both carefully, not so much because I’m an ex-Apple employee, but I’m a current iOS/iPadOS dev).



Simplified is generally the name of the game for mass market software products. So I wouldn’t expect anything Apple adds directly to Maps to be even as feature rich as Rivian’s built in nav.

Simplification gets you to focus on what an app really needs to do, and provides less cover for why it doesn’t do that. Focuses the testing as well as implementation effort onto the parts that matter (by not shipping the parts that don’t). I mean is sucks if whatever gets simplified out is something you personally had a use case for, but it is fantastic if actually cuts all the fat you didn’t care about.

All these features were available 2 yrs ago when we rented a Bolt before we got our Rivian. Then this week Rivian gave me a MachE and now I miss CarPlay even more after 1.5yrs of lacking it with Rivian.

This seems like a new feature. I don’t recall this ability when we rented the Bolt 2yrs ago but I also didn’t plan a road trip with it.

I don’t recall doing this either which might be why Maps didn’t add charging stops automatically. You have to opt in to enable those features via CarPlay.

Apple Maps has lots more features than Rivian includes. But more importantly it’s what it doesn’t have… BUGS. The most annoying bug to date that Rivian gave us during a recent road trip was telling us our destination was 4.5hrs away from the last charge stop. Apple‘s magic estimated 45min. We followed Apple’s direction and got to our camping spot at dusk. Had we followed Rivian’s we would have been there after midnight. Not only that, even while we were less than 2 miles from our destination, Rivian insisted we should turn around and go up the long way around. More than a 3.5hr detour. Apple estimated <2min by that point. Another time, on that same road trip, Rivian said we could get to the next charger with a 70% charge and driving through a National Park on the way. Apple said it was in and out, not a through. We get to the entrance and ask the park ranger and she said that the through road isn’t open yet, won’t open until summer by which time more snow melts. If I’d only charged based on Rivian’s recommendation we’d be screwed. I charged to 85% based on Apple Maps more advanced insight.

In addition, to better (actually accurate) road traffic information, Apple Maps also have current information on road closures and also have crowd sourced information on road hazards, crashes, and speed check points. But the charger database is the key feature I count on most for road trips. And it just has better voice directions. No ambiguity.