Apple is offering Porsche Taycan house owners with extra choices for planning journeys round EV charging places. As introduced on the Porsche web site, Taycan fashions within the US can now make use of Apple Maps’ EV routing, a function inside Apple CarPlay that permits drivers to plan routes that embrace charging stations and adjusts instructions based mostly on the automobile’s remaining battery life.

Apple Maps’ EV routing supplies instructions based mostly on real-time visitors data whereas monitoring the automobile’s cost ranges and figuring out applicable charging stations throughout a journey. When the Taycan’s battery drops too low, the service will direct drivers to the closest suitable charging station and supply estimated charging instances.

The Taycan joins the Ford Mustang Mach-E because the second automobile to undertake Apple Maps’ EV routing function

The Porsche Taycan is barely the second automobile to undertake Apple Maps’ EV routing because the function was introduced in 2020. At the moment, Apple stated it was working with Ford and BMW to combine EV routing into their automobiles. Three years on, and it nonetheless hasn’t made its approach onto any BMW fashions, with the Ford Mustang Mach-E being the one different automobile to assist the function. 

Previous to this replace, Taycan house owners needed to shut ‌CarPlay‌ to create a route that included charging stops by way of Apple Maps. Taycan fashions already embrace Porsche’s personal Charging Planner which may equally direct drivers to charging places based mostly on the automobile’s anticipated battery life. Porsche claims the Apple Maps EV routing function isn’t supposed to exchange this however to supply its clients with extra route planning choices.

“We’ve listened to our clients, and so they respect flexibility,” says Steffen Haug, managing director, Porsche Digital, within the firm’s press launch. “This integration with a product that they’re already aware of provides extra choices and confidence in how they use their Taycan, each in day-to-day actions and on longer street journeys.”

Apple Maps’ EV routing is supported on all Taycan fashions, however Porsche notes that fashions from 2021 or older might want to have a free software program replace put in at a Porsche service workshop to allow it. In any other case, Taycan house owners simply want to attach the My Porsche app with Apple Maps on an iPhone working at the very least iOS 16.4.