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Rivian to acquire ABRP (A Better Route Planner) (electrek.co)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sources tell Electrek that Rivian has been in talks to acquire the world’s most popular EV route planning service, Sweden-based A Better Route Planner (...)

We’re also told that Rivian has no plans to shut down either the front-end service for other EV owners who still want to use the service for their non-Rivian EVs nor the back end service for other carmakers and services. Polestar and some European brands currently use the backend service native in Android Automotive.

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[–] trapezohedron 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like a great purchase, in terms of being able to utilize their data and the usage patterns of everyone on the app. Not sure how it will affect the end-user :-/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

effects for the end user will likely the the same as with all other takeovers by big companies:

lockdown of apis to prevent others from using the data
development stops for functionality useful to competitors
the only one who benefits is a rivian customer