After seeing a video showing how the hummer ev infotainment works I got to reading about it. The built in google maps and assistant require a data plan and wireless connection to work. You have to be signed in to a google account for it to work. You have to pay $25 a month for the connection package for it to work. I’m not a big fan of signing into google anything, paying $25 a month for the privilege and we get terrible cell phone reception around the island including my house. Maps can be downloaded for offline but they delete themselves the next day. The work around is to use CarPlay or android auto. Supposedly with CarPlay at least you will still get turn directions on the dashboard cluster and HUD, it seems to be buggy with Android auto for now, it won’t display the speed limit with either. Supercruise would be another $25 a month on top of the $25 for connection, I believe on star services cost more. There’s various plans in between to have app access to your car, remote access, etc… $15 each monthly.
It appears that this is how GM plans to make a lot of money in the future, charging handsomely for every little feature. On my wife’s Toyota we pay $5 a month for app access including remote services, this seems reasonable. Her car also reads the signs on the road and shows you the current speed limit, on top of having real lane tracing features that works on all our roads where the car drives itself with cruise control set, no monthly charges this came with the vehicle purchase.
To sum it up it’s not good for me anyways, supercruise does not work on our roads. My wife’s car $5 a month and I get remote services in an app, for remote start and locking, charge level and air pressure, odo and fuel, and cars location on top of more statistics and maintenance stuff. Car drives itself and tells me speed limits, we use CarPlay for navigation on the screen, built in maps are terrible, CarPlay navigation won’t display on console or HUD unfortunately.
GM wants me to pay 10 times as much monthly and the truck won’t even drive itself, maps won’t work out of cell range, even the crappy Toyota map works without cellular. That’s $6000 over the life of the truck and most of it won’t work right for me. They have the same motion eye chipset as the Toyota, supports the same lane tracing without supercruise and sign reading…Chevy doesn’t use these features on the chip you bought with the truck because they want you to pay for supercruise and google maps. Not happy to understand this all. I will be buying the very base model truck now, before I was thinking $60k. No doubt the base WT will cost $48k now.😡
I am still super excited about the midgate and decent range EV truck, but if one more shoe drops I might be considering a different brand. I’m already worried about GM quality. I really hope they don’t screw this up.
I traded in a 2019 Yukon Denali XL for a 2022. The Google Assist absolutely is the worest piece of technology that I have ever experienced. Her are some of the differences and/or problems:
1) Calls dropped or don't go through Rarely happened o 2019. Need to pull over about 50% of the time to make a call. Useless unreliable system.
2) When using voice calling it's about a 50% chance the call goes through. The screen will show the name I am trying to call,and it is spelled exactly as it appears in my phone, yet it will state, "Not In Contacts". My 2019 Truck never had this issue.
3) Will try to voice call a contact and it will show the name on the screen but call a plumber in another State. (The system has called Plumbers, Locksmiths, Electricinas, Doctors) CRAZY!
4) Everytime I try to use Voice calling, google maps appear on the screen.
5) Will show speed limit on Heads Up Dispay about 25% of the time. Old truck always showed the speed limit.
6) Can't use the phone when connected. Have to go through Google Assist.
7) All my XM presets disappear about once every 90 days. Just XM, AM and Fm are still in Radio????
8) Loses some of my contacts. The contacts on my phone just disappear (Radomly). This is a known problem as others have complained about this. Nver had this issue with 2019 Truck.
9) Trying to call Voicemail. Most of the times, it will not connect. When it does connect you have to ttoggle throgh the screens to get to the keypad. Old truck (2019) keypad would immeadiately pop up and go back after I checked my messages. Not this truck.
10) Long pause in between every opertion. 2019 Truck was so much faster at every command.
11) Can't use the Steering wheel controls to answer a text. I could answer a text on my 2019 truck without having to use the touvhscreen.
12) Many texts aren't recieved. lately, it will show a text and not show the text or let me know the contents of the text. It just says, would you like to replay? Never had this problem with the old truck.
13) Radio constantly freezes. have to turn off ignition, wait a few minutes and then it works again. Had this happen very raely on 2019 truck
In closing, this radio SUCKS and I wish GM would go back to the old system. It was so much better in every respect. I actually love the truck, the performance, and the style. I HATE the Radio/Infotainment system. There are actually many other isues, but these are the ones that IRK me the most.
