Pioneer

Practically every car on the market today ships with the option of a built-in GPS unit, letting the driver go anywhere without supposedly getting lost. But while satellite navigation systems have got a whole lot smarter in recent years, they are designed to be used in a gasoline car - not an electric one. That may not seem like a problem at first glance, but many routes planned by the current generation of in-car satellite navigations don’t take into account road terrain. For electric cars, steep inclines and fast roads can turn a 100 mile range car into one barely capable of 50, fine...