{"slug": "fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure", "title": "Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure", "summary": "Ford Motor Company is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant to its Ford and Lincoln mobile apps that can answer questions about vehicle fuel levels, tire pressure, cargo capacity, and towing capabilities, with a goal of reaching 8 million owners. The assistant will be integrated into vehicles themselves by 2027, and Ford is partnering with Google's Gemini as an interim solution. Mike Aragon, Ford's president for integrated services, said the app-first approach brings Ford intelligence directly to customers without requiring a new vehicle purchase.", "body_md": "Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you’ll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat.\n\n# Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure\n\nThe assistant is rolling out to the Ford mobile app now. And by 2027, it will be available through the vehicle itself.\n\nThe assistant is rolling out to the Ford mobile app now. And by 2027, it will be available through the vehicle itself.\n\nThe app is rolling out first to the Ford and Lincoln mobile apps, where it will work as a chatbot that can answer questions about the vehicle’s capabilities or future service needs. Since the app is linked to the customer’s vehicle, the assistant knows many of the details about the particular make and model, including fuel levels, cargo capacity, and towing capabilities. Ford plans on rolling out a voice-powered assistant that works inside the vehicles themselves sometime in 2027 — but for now, customers will have to make do with the app-based assistant.\n\nThe announcement comes as automakers scramble to add more AI-powered features for their customers in a race to stay on top of the fast-moving technology. [Rivian recently launched](/transportation/928651/rivian-ai-voice-assistant-r1-r2) its own voice assistant, as did Mercedes-Benz. Other automakers are turning to established suppliers, like [BMW with Amazon’s Alexa](/transportation/815591/bmws-voice-assistant-is-getting-an-alexa-plus-upgrade-eventually) and [General Motors with Google’s Gemini](/transportation/920285/general-motors-gm-gemini-ai-update). Meanwhile, cars with Google’s built-in operating system, like Volvo and Polestar, [will also be getting Gemini](/tech/921117/google-gemini-ai-assistant-cars-upgrade).\n\n[Ford first announced its plans](/transportation/857400/ford-ai-assistant-level-3-automation-ces-2026) to introduce a chatbot earlier this year, alongside promises for a future Level 3 “eyes off” driver assist system. At the time, the automaker didn’t disclose which AI developers it was working with, noting that it was designing its assistant to be chatbot-agnostic so it can work with a variety of different large language models. As a stopgap measure, the company will be integrating Gemini into its vehicles as an “opt-in alternative” to Google Assistant, [a partnership that was first previewed earlier this year](https://fordauthority.com/2026/04/ford-lineup-officially-gets-gemini-ai-assistant-this-year/).\n\nFord says that by starting with its mobile app, it can introduce more customers to its assistant than it could through a software update. The new assistant is being rolled out to customers in waves, with the goal of making it available to 8 million owners of Ford and Lincoln vehicles, the company said.\n\n“By taking an app-first approach, we are bringing the future of Ford intelligence directly to customers instantly,” Mike Aragon, Ford’s president for integrated services, wrote in a blog post. “You don’t have to wait to buy a brand-new vehicle; we’re upgrading the ownership experience you already have, starting today.”\n\nAragon said that Ford’s assistant can answer questions from the owner’s manual, as well as offer live updates provided by the vehicle’s telemetry system. Owners can even upload pictures to check whether their vehicle is capable of carrying or towing certain payloads.\n\nBut the “true magic” will be when the assistant migrates from owners’ phones to their dashboard screens, Aragon predicts. This won’t be through phone mirroring, like Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, but through “deep, thoughtful intelligence embedded directly into the driving experience.” The automaker’s Android-based Ford and Lincoln Digital Experiences will feature Gemini in the meantime, which can help with navigation, sending text messages, or playing media.\n\nIn the future, Ford envisions all these tasks handled by the new assistant, merging vehicle-specific requests with infotainment-level queries to enable vehicle owners to create their own custom system tailored to their preferences.\n\nFord said the assistant will be free to use, rather than placed behind a paywall or subscription — though the company wouldn’t say whether that will remain the case after the assistant becomes available through the vehicle’s own operating system.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/transportation/976748/ford-ai-assistant-mobile-app", "published_at": "2026-08-10 11:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 11:19:13.982585+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Ford Motor Company", "Lincoln", "Mike Aragon", "Google Gemini", "Rivian", "Mercedes-Benz", "BMW", "General Motors"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fords-new-ai-assistant-can-check-your-fuel-levels-and-tire-pressure.jsonld"}}