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The Bolt also has CarPlay. That's a pretty significant advantage IMO.
by rootusrootus 5y ago
The Bolt also has CarPlay. That's a pretty significant advantage IMO.
- MBCook 5y agoI believe basically every electric car coming out has that except for Tesla.
- geerlingguy 5y agoAlmost every new car has that except for Tesla, these days. (I wish it were easier to retrofit in my 2008 Camry...)
- dwighttk 5y agoBest Buy has receivers starting at $260
- aduitsis 5y agoHello, honest question, can't you install an aftermarket car stereo that has CarPlay from any reputable manufacturer?
- rootusrootus 5y agoDepends on the specific car (and frequently the trim level, as well). A lot of manufacturers have tightly integrated infotainment and you can't do a retrofit if nobody makes the right trim panel to allow it. Gone are the days when everyone used DIN or 2DIN.
- aduitsis 5y agoI understand, the car my not have a (2)DIN slot. That's a definite regression. And very costly if your car stereo dies out of warranty I might add.
- rodgerd 5y agoThe "it depends" is "yes, but maybe you lose your backing camera" something similar.
- sanj 5y agoI fit it into my 2009 Corolla and a 2010 RAV4. Ping me if you want more info.
- ronnier 5y agoI have 3 cars. One has carplay, and I have a Tesla... I'd a thousand times over prefer tesla's UI over carplay. It's easier to play Spotify music. The experience is a lot better. The maps are better. Those are the two things that matter most to me and it's lightyears better than car play.
- izacus 5y agoHow do you switch from PocketCasts podcast to Audible book and back to Spotify or YouTube Music audio on a Tesla screen? That's the main usecase for CarPlay for me.
- ronnier 5y agoI don't. I just do one or the other. If I'm listening to podcasts then it'll play over bluetooth and I can control it with the onscreen controls. I don't jump back and forth between podcasts and spotify
- izacus 5y agoThis really doesn't sound like a better experience to me then. Especially since CarPlay doesn't exclude existing functionality on the car system.
- rootusrootus 5y agoTo each their own. I had a Tesla Model 3 Performance. The navigation was nice because of the big screen. Spotify never worked correctly for me (couldn't even see my playlists, for whatever reason). What Tesla doesn't do well is voice control, including text message integration. Like, in theory that exists, but the text message integration failed for me after a couple weeks and nothing I tried could make it work again. And no other apps supported by CarPlay, either. Things like Podcasts, different flavors of navigation apps, etc. You either get what Tesla offers, or nothing. Usually nothing. And it's not like you can't have both. Tesla fans are good at telling me why I shouldn't want CarPlay, but that's just apologizing for Tesla. Other manufacturers offer CarPlay in addition to their own infotainment. Both my non-Tesla cars even put their own app in the CarPlay interface to make it easy to navigate around.