Brands with best connected car technology
With the growth of in-cabin technology, buyers have started giving a lot of importance to connected car features. These features add a lot of convenience and practicality for the user. Moreover, the overall safety of the vehicle is also enhanced via advanced features. Today’s article will thus deal with cars that have the best connected car tech. Let’s go.
Hyundai
Hyundai Blue Link is one of the best connected car tech available in the market as of today. Hyundai provides almost every feature that will be useful in enhancing the safety, convenience and practicality of the car. Hyundai provides connected car tech to almost all its cars except a few (Kona Electric, Santro, Grand i10 Nios, Aura). i20, Venue, Creta, Verna, Elantra and Tucson get connected car tech.
The Blue Link offers some important features like stolen vehicle tracking and immobilization, remote door lock-unlock, remote vehicle status check, car health status, maintenance alert, real-time traffic information, roadside assistance, geo-fencing, time-fencing alerts and many more. However, Hyundai Creta is the only car in the brand’s lineup that gets all 50+ features that the Blue Link has to offer. Features like voice-controlled commands, remote seat ventilation control, remote air purifier control, in-vehicle air quality status and a few other are some of the additional offerings from Blue Link for the Creta.
MG
MG was the first brand in India to bring internet connectivity features via an embedded eSIM. You can get connected to the internet inside the car via 5G-ready connectivity. MG’s i-SMART, similar to Hyundai’s Blue Link offers some really cool-yet-essential features. Hector, ZS EV and Gloster are offered with the brand’s connected car technology. The cars come loaded with convenience features like voice-assistant, remote health status, vehicle tracker, geo-fencing, OTA updates and many others. Moreover, i-SMART offers really cool features like remote engine start-stop, remote-controlled sunroof, pre-loaded applications like Gaana, real-time weather details and many others.
Kia
Kia has its UVO connected car tech developed quite extensively. All products from the brand viz. the Sonet, Seltos and Carnival get this feature. Destination set with schedule, live traffic information, destination sharing, smartwatch connectivity, remote engine start-stop, remote vehicle status, TPMS, over the air map updates and live location tracking. The cars also get an AI-based voice assistant, which makes features like voice-enabled driver window control, blower wind direction control, sunroof control, navigation control, cricket scores, climate control, weather information and many others possible.
Ford
Ford has loaded its complete line-up with connected car tech. Figo, Aspire, Freestyle, EcoSport and Endeavour with the FordPass, the brand’s connected car tech. The FordPass offers features like vehicle locator, remote engine start-stop, TPMS, OTA updates, vehicle health alert, oil life, remote lock-unlock and a few others.
Honda
New Honda City is currently the only product that has been made available with Honda Connect, the brand’s connected car tech. Features like Alexa compatibility, vehicle locator, stolen car tracking, auto crash notification, tyre deflation alert, remote tailgate operation, geofencing are some of the key features from a total of 32 features that come with Honda Connect.
Tata
Tata has extensively developed its connected car tech that offers 27 features in total. Nexon, Nexon EV, Altroz, Harrier and Safari have been made available with iRA. iRA offers features like stolen vehicle tracking, remote engine immobilisation, intrusion alert, geo-fencing mode and live vehicle diagnosis are some of the key features.
Mahindra
Mahindra’s Blue Sense Plus offers 40 features for the convenience of the user. These features include remote lock-unlock, remote climate control, live vehicle tracking, geo-fencing, theft alerts and many others. Mahindra XUV300 is the only car in the current that gets this extensive list of features.
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