With iOS 17 this 12 months, Apple is additional increasing on its set of options in Apple Maps for electrical automotive homeowners. Beginning this 12 months, Apple Maps will present real-time charging availability info and let drivers select a most well-liked charging community.
Apple first introduced help for EV routing in Apple Maps again at WWDC 2020. The characteristic ultimately debuted for Ford Mustang Mach-E drivers final 12 months, adopted by Porsche Taycan drivers earlier this 12 months.
With iOS 17 put in in your iPhone, Apple Maps will immediate you to arrange your most well-liked charging networks in your EV. You possibly can select from a protracted checklist of choices, together with Electrify America, Chargepoint, Tesla’s Supercharger community, and extra.
When you select your most well-liked networks, Apple Maps will intelligently current you with real-time charging availability info. As an illustration, it will present the variety of complete stalls obtainable at a selected charging station and what number of of these are at present occupied.
Based mostly on the electrical automotive you drive, Apple Maps will solely present you charging choices which can be suitable with the charging connector utilized by your automotive. In iOS 17 beta 1, the characteristic nonetheless seems to be a piece in progress and is lacking a few of the vital knowledge.
“When driving an electrical automobile, now you can select a most well-liked charging community and see real-time charging station availability,” Apple explains.
As of proper now, it seems that this characteristic is simply obtainable to vehicles that help Apple Maps EV routing, which is simply the Mach-E and Taycan. Nonetheless, we count on extra EV makers to undertake the characteristic sooner or later, and this can be a nice enchancment to have – particularly when utilizing CarPlay.
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