Agreed. I’ve rented the Polestar 2 a couple of times from Hertz, and it has this feature already. The car uses Google maps by default (Polestar uses Android Automotive), but you can use CarPlay to put Apple Maps in the instrument cluster.
Of course, unlike Porsche, Polestar hasn’t built in...
I'll add 9: sheltered from the elements. One nice thing about most gas stations is that they're covered, so you don't need to get soaked while fueling your vehicle. I've gotten properly wet a few times wrestling with charge cables in the rain. It sucks because not only do you get rained on, but...
They are all over the roads doing testing here in the Bay Area. To me, the car looks like a bar of soap. Not exciting. Huge admirer of the powertrain technology, but the exterior is yawns-ville.
In fairness to Rivian, I've seen R1T test cars on the road here in the SF Bay Area. They're clearly getting close to production (same w/ Lucid Air, who seem to have tons of test cars on the road around here).
Given that Tesla is here and I used to see M3 and other Tesla testers, and I haven't...
Enjoy! Its cousin (the i3 BEV) is my daily driver, and I've been quite happy with it. Range is limited such that it's most definitely not a road trip car, but living with it has convinced me that not every EV needs to be a road trip monster with 400 mile range.