Google Maps is reportedly engaged on a characteristic that would present customers energy-efficient routes whereas navigating to their vacation spot, primarily based on the kind of engine inside their automotive. Last 12 months, the tech large introduced that its Maps app would supply navigation through routes which might be fuel-efficient and higher for the surroundings. While the variety of electrical autos (EV) within the US continues to extend, Google Maps presently provides the identical routes for EV and an inner combustion engine (ICE) autos. However, each engines behave in another way, which suggests an ICE car’s fuel-efficient route may not be as environment friendly for an EV, and vice-versa.

According to a report by 9To5Google, the corporate is engaged on a Google Maps characteristic may enable customers to modify between sorts of engines, providing them instructions to their vacation spot through probably the most fuel-efficient route. The new characteristic was noticed within the code of the newest beta replace model 11.39 of Google Maps, and is presently not seen to customers.

Last 12 months, Google had launched the characteristic that allowed car house owners to decide on probably the most fuel-efficient and surroundings pleasant route. However, the service doesn’t present routes primarily based on the kind of car, as an alternative providing customers a single fuel-efficient route from level A to B for every type of autos. A fuel-efficient route for an ICE powered car may not be the as environment friendly for an EV or a car with a hybrid engine. While the report reviews the existence of strings suggesting an choice to ‘select engine sort”, it doesn’t specify the kind of engines that might be supported.

Back in June Google introduced that Android and iOS customers in India, Indonesia, Japan, and the US will have the ability to get an estimate of the toll worth on the Google Maps app for almost 2,000 toll roads. The characteristic may even think about components resembling having a toll or not, the day of the week, and the time of crossing the toll to offer an estimate, in accordance with the corporate.