Apple and Ford have announced a partnership that will directly integrate Apple Maps into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform starting in 2027. The native navigation experience will be embedded across Ford’s in-vehicle displays for turn-by-turn routing and battery preconditioning.
What is Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform?
Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform is a newly engineered flexible architecture designed to power affordable, software-defined midsize electric vehicles starting around $30,000. The platform uses a zonal hardware architecture, centralized computing, and software developed by Latitude AI.
Apple Maps on Ford UEV
In addition to intelligent EV route planning and battery preconditioning, the system brings natural language navigation prompts, live traffic updates, and detailed place card searches.
