Google Maps is obviously the most popular mapping service in the world, but both Google and Apple have had an issue with electric vehicle makers like Tesla and Rivian. Both of those companies favor running their own in-house software to power their driving experiences over Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto experiences.
The benefit of doing that, for those brands, is that they can more closely integrate the driving and charging experience in the vehicle (amongst a mile-long list of other benefits). So, up until now, running something like Google Maps in an EV has been worse than running the car’s built-in mapping system since Google Maps couldn’t interface with the vehicle’s battery information. Up until now is the most important part of that sentence.
