A partnership between Apple and Ford has been announced to integrate Apple Maps into Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, which is debuting in 2027. This integration will be powered by the ‘MapKit for Automotive SDK’ by Apple.
With this integration, Ford drivers will benefit from the following features:
- Turn-by-Turn directions
- Real-time traffic updates
- Incident updates
- Detailed Place Cards
- Intelligent EV Routing functionality and Battery preconditioning.
This partnership will also enable Ford to access road-level information from Apple Maps to develop Latitude AI, including the next-generation BlueCruise hands-free highway driving capability.
In the words of Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services and Health, “Apple Maps delivers the best map experience in the world, and we’re excited to bring the power of Maps’ navigation technology to Ford’s innovative Universal Electric Vehicle Platform,” “With our new MapKit for Automotive SDK, we’re bringing Maps further into drivers’ daily lives, giving them an incredibly accurate and easy-to-use navigation system that is seamlessly integrated into Ford vehicles.”
