Ford and Google reported a six-year vital partnership in which they will work together on new advances and install Google’s Android operating system as the essential framework in its infotainment screens in huge number of Ford and Lincoln vehicles and trucks beginning in 2023.

Android’s operating system will empower drivers to get to Google Maps for in-vehicle route and Google’s Voice Assistant for taking care of voice commands in the vehicle without the utilization of an Android telephone.

Ford vehicles have accompanied the automaker’s proprietary Sync system since 2007, which has been highlighted across its portfolio. It isn’t certain whether Ford will keep on utilizing the Sync name on this new system.

Beginning in 2023, Ford vehicles will likewise start offering an in-vehicle version of the Google Play Store to download applications for things like music, audiobooks and podcasts.

Furthermore, Google will likewise be Ford’s favored supplier for cloud information storage, executives from Ford and Google said.

Ford will likewise utilize Google’s artificial intelligence and analytics investigation abilities to more readily decipher the information it gathers from vehicles and its own tasks to develop things like client support, assembling and marketing.

General Motors (GM) as of late declared a comparative plan with Microsoft in which Microsoft will be the distributed storage supplier for GM and Cruise, the self-sufficient vehicle company larger part claimed by GM. Ford and Google didn’t explicitly say if Google’s distributed computing frameworks would be utilized for autonomous vehicles, as in the GM and Microsoft deal.

As a feature of their partnership, Ford (F) and Google (GOOG) will make a gathering considered Team Upshift that will work together on new ways the companies can cooperate. Chiefs from Ford and Google envision, for instance, that the group will chip away at things like improving the online vehicle shopping experience utilizing client information.

The companies didn’t uncover the financial terms of the plan.

This is Google’s first huge scope association with an automaker, despite the fact that Volvo and its Polestar electric vehicle turn off utilize the Android operating system in a portion of their vehicles, with plans for additional later on.

UIs and in-vehicle route systems have gotten basic for car clients, said Kristin Kolodge, leader head of driver association at J.D. Force. Vehicle proprietors have gotten used to such a convenience and costumization they enjoy on their cell phones, she said. They regularly wind up being baffled when their vehicles don’t convey on that.

“They’re looking for this extended relationship,” she said. “For the vehicle to know them personally,” she said.

In fresher models, for example, the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the overhauled F-150, Ford vehicles can download programming updates “over the air,” like cell phones can, so clients don’t need to visit a vendor for programming updates. That will likewise be valid for vehicles with the new Android Auto operating system.

Drivers with Apple gadgets will in any case approach Apple CarPlay so they can utilize their telephones through the vehicle, also. Amazon’s Alexa voice partner will likewise keep on being offered in the vehicles for clients who prefer it.