Uconnect 5 is in the new Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Wagoneer. It runs Android, but it doesn’t use Google services. It has Amazon Alexa and you have a different map, a non-Google map. The backseat entertainment system runs Fire TV. Is that a Jeep decision? Is that a Stellantis decision? How does that come to be? If you decided, “I think we need Google Maps to compete,” could you make that switch?
I would say, it was a decision that was made a few years ago, when we developed the Grand Cherokee and the Grand Wagoneer and the Wagoneer. I think we’ll have a good package altogether. Can we change in the future? Yes, of course. And, I would say that the infrastructure that we get will be on Stellantis vehicles across the board. We’ll have a common solution. And as I said, it’s all going to be about personalization and adding modules.
When I look at the Grand Cherokee and what we’ve been able to deliver, we had a lot of debate a few years ago, two and a half years ago, why do we need seven or eight screens? You think about a Grand Cherokee and Grand Wagoneer, we have eight screens, [or at least] seven screens. We have a cluster. We have the heads-up display. We have two screens in the middle. We have a passenger screen and two behind, and we have the rear view mirror, which is also a screen if you have a Summit Reserve or the top of the line. A lot of people were asking, “Why do that?” It’s very clear what you can do with seven screens.
First, we’re very proud to make shotgun the best seat in the car again. That position used to be a nice position. And over time, that position, the passenger seat in the front, has been a little bit neglected. You didn’t have anything for you. The driver had all the controls, including the one for the rear seat entertainment. You had the rear seat entertainment. You had the driver. The shotgun was completely neglected. So, with a passenger screen, we give the passenger in the front seat a lot more control over everything. Control of the entertainment system in the back, plus potentially taking care of the navigation system. Pushing the destination, doing all kinds of things, because it interacts with all the screens.
And as a driver, now you have your heads-up display, you’ve got your speed and your maximum speed. You get the directions on your instrument cluster. In the upper screen you can have the music that you listen to, potentially with headphones so that you don’t bother anybody else, and you have your massage seat so you can get a massage. You’ve got ADAS, L2 or L2 Plus, hands-free, and you can enjoy yourself, but the passenger is not bored anymore. With all this technology every passenger has a new story, and the Fire TV, you give that to a three-year-old in the back, they can watch something on Netflix. Get into the car, in two seconds, he gets it.