This will be major for existing Tesla customers. But presumably this is to get new customers who have long held off because of the lack of CarPlay, but imagine these days most are choosing to avoid Tesla for other reasons and lack of CarPlay is just icing on the cake. But glad to see this and hopefully will cause Rivian and other standoffs from rethinking their long term holdout. As they can all continue to develop what they believe are superior systems, and if they are people will choose to use those infotainments if they are not people use CarPlay.
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Tesla Working to Add Apple CarPlay Support to Vehicles
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I don't need to. Look on YouTube. Videos of parts glued into place. Panels misaligned from the factory like they were put together by Hellen Keller. They're pure junk.
The problem is it took years for Tesla to implement those apps. And when I finally got Apple Music, many times it just failed to login and I had to go through the whole process again. When I sold my Tesla 2 years ago Audible support didn’t even exist yet. Now I’ve got other audiobook and podcast apps that will likely never be supported directly by Tesla but have had CarPlay support for years.
So it’s great if your app usage aligns perfectly with what Tesla gives you, but if not, you’re SOL.
There’s little doubt in my mind that this is connected to the Apple utilizing Starlink rumors.
Next up- Elon Musk finally adds lidar to their self-driving cybercabs, acknowledges that all non-lidar Teslas will never be capable of true full self driving and offers to buy all Tesla owners each a twelve-inch sub of their choosing by way of an apology.
Next up- Elon Musk finally adds lidar to their self-driving cybercabs, acknowledges that all non-lidar Teslas will never be capable of true full self driving and offers to buy all Tesla owners each a twelve-inch sub of their choosing by way of an apology.
Err HW3 and AMD are distinct things is what I'm getting at. HW3 doesn't really affect the infotainment. AMD and Intel computers do.
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Apple Music in my Tesla was horrible. Messaging was also lousy; inifinitely better within CarPlay, despite how terrible Siri is. Controlling Overcast through was a constant irritation; having a native app within CarPlay is way better. Occasionally I have to take a work call on MS Teams in my car. In the Tesla: required fiddling with the phone. In CarPlay: easy peasy.
Navigation was the least of my concerns; I was quite satisfied with the Tesla nav and there still some aspects that I like better than the various nav apps in CarPlay. It's all the other stuff. With CarPlay I absolutely *never* have to touch the phone while I'm in the car. I could never get there in the Tesla.
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JATO Dynamics: Tesla Model Y to be crowned world’s best-selling vehicle of 2023 | Automotive World
Tesla Model Y knocks Toyota off the top spot, preliminary JATO data suggests*
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Best-selling car models worldwide 2024| Statista
Three Toyota models were in the five most sold cars in the world, including one of these models recording over one million sales. Tesla also made the ranking.
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I didn't say 2025. I said past couple of years. 2025 isn't complete.
That's not how it works. Opinions can't be objectively false or true.
Hmm, says a lot when you're linking electrek articles.I saw that just went live on Google Maps yesterday.
Tesla Supercharger live availability is now in Google Maps
Tesla’s Supercharger network — already the most reliable fast-charging network in the world — just became a little easier to...electrek.co
Same people said the same in 2023 and 2024 when Tesla Model Y ended up being #1 in the world of any car.
It already achieved true full self driving.
I agree, it works perfect for me and it may not you or others. I would not want to sacrifice or ruin the aesthetics and smoothness of the Tesla GUI to force in Apple's really childish looking and still buggy CarPlay. I did not have serious issues when I used CarPlay in my previous car but it is not perfect.
I am actually surprised that they have not opened up a Tesla App Store to bring things to the car and allow developers to do their thing and make the car more versatile for people like you. Maybe there are backend concerns about opening up a marketplace and vetting all the apps.
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I think CarPlay is a requirement for anybody suffering with Uconnect, Sync, or number of the horrendous crap offered by other car manufacturers. On my Ford and Chrysler, it's a must. Tesla's interface is quite good, and I don't miss it at all on our two Teslas. Maps are such a central component of self-driving, and since it's connected with the streaming apps built in I don't think I'd use it. I heard some chatter that Tesla wants to add it back to save on the bandwidth - Carplay users use their own mobile plan for streaming.
you are paying to be able to stream with the premium connection plan. If you don't then you have to create a hot spot with your phone.
If you (or the person I replied to) are a developer, then you have a different and more accurate point of view/reference than me. Again, I'm not a developer, so that's why I refrain from saying a job is easy when I have no idea how to do it. There's also a huge difference between doing a job and doing it well. There's always all kinds of nuance to everything and every situation, nonobvious details that actually allow for and determine success, but people like to oversimplify and are therefore constantly overlooking and underestimating. So while it might be easy for an engineer, it just seems obtuse for a layman to assert so.
Really?! so you’re telling me you’re able to sleep in the car and let it drive you around the streets of New York to your destination? Because until that’s a reality, it’s not full self anything.
If Tesla was already “full self driving,” they would be cyber/taxiing the **** all over the country.
And by the way, I’m not saying they WON’T be. But they currently are not.
Or. to quote: “No, Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) is not fully autonomous; it is a driver-assistance system that requires active driver supervision. It is officially called Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and can handle most driving tasks with minimal intervention, but the driver must keep their hands on the wheel and be ready to take over at any time.“
Tesla driver here: give me the option! Better than that silly TRON ad that was pushed to my car...
Yes, I'm in their camp (Model Y owner since 2020), but I also know a ton of people who have never driven a Tesla and refuse to try it because it doesn't offer CarPlay. So it doesn't really matter for existing Tesla owners, but it will clearly attract a large group of potential customers.
My requests: AirPlay 2 support and Siri integration for iMessage, Apple Music and Apple Podcasts
If you really think about it though, there’s what a few million Teslas on the road? But for app developers, that’s at least 100 orders of magnitude fewer devices than iOS or Android. Probably wouldn’t be a priority for any dev unless drivers had some targeted campaign or petition begging for support.
