GM eliminated Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from its EVs — this upgrade adds them back

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What GM takes away, the aftermarket restores.

General Motors’ arguable determination to driblet Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from astir of its electrical vehicles present has a imaginable workaround. As noticed by InsideEVs, a institution called White Automotive and Media Services (WAMS) is advertising a caller aftermarket upgrade kit that restores the fashionable phone-mirroring features backmost into Chevy and GMC EVs.

On its website, the institution promises “fully integrated wired and wireless CarPlay and Android Auto successful each the ways you’ve travel to expect (and immoderate you haven’t!) without compromising immoderate existing features oregon functionality.” The upgrade is presently compatible with the Chevy Equinox, Blazer, and Silverado EVs, arsenic good arsenic the GMC Sierra EV. (Sorry...

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