iOS 17 adds real-time charging availability info for EV drivers

With iOS 17 this 12 months, Apple is additional increasing on its set of options in Apple Maps for electrical automotive homeowners. Starting this 12 months, Apple Maps will present real-time charging availability data and let drivers select a most popular charging community.

Apple first introduced help for EV routing in Apple Maps again at WWDC 2020. The function finally 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 popular charging networks for your EV. You can select from an extended record of choices, together with Electrify America, Chargepoint, Tesla’s (*17*) community, and extra.

Once you select your most popular networks, Apple Maps will intelligently current you with real-time charging availability data. For occasion, it will present the variety of whole stalls out there at a particular charging station and what number of of these are at present occupied.

Based on the electrical automotive you drive, Apple Maps will solely present you charging choices which are suitable with the charging connector utilized by your automotive. In iOS 17 beta 1, the function nonetheless seems to be a piece in progress and is lacking a few of the obligatory information.

“When driving an electric vehicle, you can now choose a preferred charging network and see real-time charging station availability,” Apple explains.

As of proper now, it seems that this function is just out there to automobiles that help Apple Maps EV routing, which is just the Mach-E and Taycan. Still, we anticipate extra EV makers to undertake the function sooner or later, and this can be a nice enchancment to have – particularly when utilizing CarPlay.

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