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Google Maps to Look More Customized to Cars with Google Built-in, Starting With Polestar

Kellen June 3, 2025 2

We hope this is the start of something bigger and with more car brands, but for now, the Google Maps experience on Polestar cars will look a touch more custom. Google and Polestar announced this week that they worked together on a customized Google Maps design...

Gemini is Coming to Wear OS, Your Car, and TVs

Kellen May 13, 2025 2

Not that this will surprise any of you, but we now at least (sort of) know the timing - Gemini is coming to all of your other devices beyond phones. Google announced today that we'll soon see Gemini replace Google Assistant on your Wear OS watch, in your car,...

Android Automotive is Getting “Dozens” of New Apps and Games

Kellen February 19, 2025 13

Google's Android Automotive, the car infotainment system that powers vehicles from Volvo, Polestar, and others, is getting an app upgrade this week. Google says that "dozens" of new apps are coming to cars with Google built-in, thanks to the car ready mobile...

Polestar 2 is Adding Wired Android Auto Support, One of the “Most Requested Features”

Kellen December 30, 2024 6

Polestar is one of those car companies that made a big commitment to Android Automotive early on as a potentially improved in-car infotainment solution over something they could develop in house. That choice has had positives and also some negatives as their...

Polestar 2 - Android Automotive - Google Built-in

Android Automotive’s Android 15 Update Brings Much Needed Improvements

Kellen September 16, 2024 3

Google is preparing a big Android Automotive update that appears to introduce several major changes to the platform. They haven't announced the details in a typically way, but release notes for the newest build were spotted and they talk through what we can...

Many More Android Apps are Coming to Your Car

Tim May 15, 2024 3

If you're someone driving around a car equipped with Android Automative, you'll soon be sitting back and relaxing in that driver's seat (while parked, of course), enjoying a ton of new apps. Thanks to behind the scenes work done by Google, developers will soon...

Google’s Android for Cars Products Get Zoom Calls, Weather Channel, Prime Video, and More

Kellen September 13, 2023 3

It's a day of auto news from Google! Users of Android Auto and Android Automotive ("cars with Google built-in") can start to take conference calls from their vehicles, Prime Video is here for show watching, there's potentially better weather too, Vivaldi as a...

Ford Chooses Android Automotive as Infotainment OS of Choice

Tim February 1, 2021 24

Ford and Google announced a strategic partnership this morning, one that will see Android Automotive as the infotainment OS of choice starting in 2023 vehicles. Additionally, Google Cloud will be the automaker's preferred cloud provider, promising to, "...