Tesla is working to add Apple Music and Amazon Music as new native automotive music services within its electric vehicles.
While most other automakers are turning to Android Auto and Apple CarPlay phone mirroring to handle media playback inside their cars, Tesla insists on integrating music services into its own user interface.
For years, the automaker has been integrating different music streaming services into its vehicles with applications embedded in its central displays.
Most famously, Tesla integrated Spotify into its vehicles.
Most recently, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla would add Tidal to its integrated music services, and now we find that the automaker is also working on the integration of Apple Music and Amazon Music.
The ‘green’ Tesla hacker identified the first versions of the Tesla user interface integration in a recent software update:
When looking at the different media sources, several new options have appeared, although they are not yet usable:
Based on this leak, it appears that Tesla is working to add several new media sources, including Amazon Music, Audible, which is also owned by Amazon, and Apple Music.
Tesla drivers will be able to link their streaming music accounts with these services to their cars and use the services via the car interface, instead of their phones being connected to Bluetooth, which is obviously already an option.
There is no way to know the timing of the integration, but Green noted that Tidal appears to be more advanced in development.
With more media sources coming to Tesla vehicles, the automaker recently released a new software update that allows drivers to hide media sources.
Now, you can simply go to the settings and have only the media sources that you actually use are displayed on the main UI.
This feature will become particularly useful if Tesla ends up doubling the number of music services that can be linked to its vehicles, which seems to be the case.
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