General Motors argues with dealers about subsequent carplay installation

General Motors (GM), once the largest car manufacturer of the planet, does not like Apple's CarPlay: As early as 2023, the company announced that the iPhone integration only allow in combustion engines, but not in modern electric vehicles (EVS) of the various brands such as Chevrolet, Cadillac or GMC. Now the group has started to prohibit retrofitting kits for the vehicles and explicitly prohibited its retailers. The reports the US car blog The Drive.

Traders had to incorporate

So far there has been only one “retrofit” option for CarPlay for vehicles in the so-called Ultium platform: one System of the White Automotive & Media Services. In addition to CarPlay, it also dominated Android Auto. But that is the end. GM is said to have instructed at least one Chevrolet dealer to refrain from installing on request. White Automotive should also be completely excluded from sales via the dealer network, it said. The company has now taken the project from its website. There is currently no way to win over other dealers who are installing.

The models that were previously supported were the electric vehicles Blazer, Equinox, Silverado, Sierra and Lyriq. CarPlay could thus be accommodated both wire -bound and wirelessly on the car screens – apparently even inclusive cluster of instruments. Siri could also be accessed directly. However, the installation was complex and caused a stay of the vehicle at a dealer workshop. And this is where GM was apparently starting.

“Critical vehicle functions” affected

According to Sources at GM, there are said to have been “negative influences” of technology on “critical” vehicle functions that the group did not accept. It is also conceivable that the system could be switched off later using a software update. GM only gave official information in that “after-marked solution” is only accepted if they are intensely tested and approved by GM. White Automotive announced that the difficult decision was made to set the product. In the long term, it is no longer sustainable.

GM would like to equip its vehicles with its own software if possible, even if the company also cooperates with Google. The car company does it with this Tesla and Rivian, who themselves put on their own software and describe them as one of the reasons for their success. GM also intended to offer certain features only as a subscription.