Due to the continued chip scarcity, BMW is briefly transport some autos with out assist for Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, in response to report from Automotive News Europe (which we discovered by 9to5 Google). According to a press release the corporate gave to Automotive News Europe, BMW has modified suppliers and begun utilizing a chip that doesn’t absolutely assist Android Auto or CarPlay. As a consequence, the corporate continued in its assertion, affected autos will obtain an over-the-air software program replace by “the tip of June on the newest.”
As 9to5Google notes, you may test in case your not too long ago bought automobile is affected by checking for “6P1” within the automobile’s manufacturing code. It additionally appears that all the autos in query have been manufactured within the first 4 months of 2022, and have closing locations within the US, France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
This will not be the primary time that BMW has delivered automobiles lacking sure non-essential options so as to keep away from transport delays. Last fall, the corporate omitted touchscreen options from some autos, additionally because of the world chip scarcity. And BMW is hardly the one automaker to take this tack both. Last fall, across the identical time BMW was grappling with the touchscreen situation, Tesla determined to ship some automobiles with out USB ports. Then, earlier this 12 months, Ford, shipped some Explorer SUVs with out rear local weather controls.
In the case of BMW’s lacking Android Auto and CarPlay assist, it might be worse. As Automotive News Europe notes, when Mercedes-Benz was confronted with an identical dilemma, it selected to not embody the requisite chips in some autos, at which level clients can be compelled to carry their automobiles right into a ship to have them put in later.