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Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius on not using Apple’s next-gen CarPlay and why EVs are still the future
Mercedes’ custom OS isn’t quite Iron Man’s Jarvis yet.
Ola was last on the show in 2022, and he promised me he’d come back when Mercedes was ready to launch an EV version of the G-Wagen — the company’s legendary off-road vehicle. Ola and I also spent some time talking about what’s happening inside cars lately, as more and more automakers try to build unique interfaces and experiences instead of handing everything over to smartphone projection systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Graz, Austria was the place that was selected in a joint venture, which was called [Steyr-Daimler-Puch] at the time and, today, is Magna, part of the very large Canadian automotive supplier industrial group.
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