Google claims that it has made its Maps product much more useful to electric vehicle drivers, with the addition of power-level information for chargers—and the smarts to tap into that for customized ...

A 56-year-old British safari guide living in Mozambique and traveling back home from Hoedspruit, South Africa, learned the hard way that the fastest route isn't always the best for Google Maps users.

Most navigation apps can show you the fastest possible route to your destination and some can even suggest an eco-friendly route calculated to produce the least amount of carbon emissions. But what if ...

An update planned for later in 2021 will change the Google Maps app to "default to the route with the lowest carbon footprint when it has approximately the same ETA as the fastest route." However, ...

Google Maps is a navigation app that’s constantly evolving, and just as expected, the Mountain View-based search giant is working on all kinds of new-generation updates that align its software with ...

It’s one of a series of features the company rolled out to make sustainable choices more apparent to users. If you look up directions on Google Maps today in the U.S., you’ll notice something new: ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Many of us rely on our GPS and navigation apps to get us where we’re going the fastest, but what about finding the safest route to our destination? Researchers at Texas ...