Electric Vehicles: General topics

My car required psychotherapy. I went down to the dealership, where they put her on the couch for an hour-long session. It appears that Nissan does not do OTA software updates, perhaps for the sake of security.
 
I got broadsided on Sunday. Everyone is okay but the car had to be towed. Doesn’t look good and it might be totaled.

Thinking of going full EV, but I am minus the two years of savings i was planning to have while keeping the car that much longer. Looking at the Volvo EX30, but it is a inaugural year for that model and I haven’t heard much on Volvo EV lines.

Anyone heard bad things about Volvo?
 
Yoused said:
C & D ranks it as best in its class. As for me, the large screen looks very unappealing – I can at least turn on defrost without having to go into a screen.
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In the Tesla world you put the car into auto drive to google the submenu feature you're after only to have it penalize you for looking at your phone while driving.
 
My car has a lot of features. "Pro-Pilot" is supposed to be a driving aid that is close to highway-SD. The manual tells me not to use the active cruise control until I have studied the whole section on Pro-Pilot. Seems kind of dangerous to have an upfront feature that requires a degree to use.
 
Yoused said:
My car has a lot of features. "Pro-Pilot" is supposed to be a driving aid that is close to highway-SD. The manual tells me not to use the active cruise control until I have studied the whole section on Pro-Pilot. Seems kind of dangerous to have an upfront feature that requires a degree to use.
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They want you to pay attention so that it doesn't run into the back of emergency vehicles like Ford and Tesla does...
 
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They want you to pay attention so that it doesn't run into the back of emergency vehicles like Ford and Tesla does...
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Those autopilots seem to be poorly designed. There was a story of one that plowed into an overturned trailer because it could not figure out what it was. Or the one that kept asking the driver to slow down on this dirt road because it was struggling, but eventually crashed. They need more stopping response overrides keep going – just like a chatbot ought to say "I don't know" instead making up nonsense.
 
Yoused said:
Those autopilots seem to be poorly designed. There was a story of one that plowed into an overturned trailer because it could not figure out what it was. Or the one that kept asking the driver to slow down on this dirt road because it was struggling, but eventually crashed. They need more stopping response overrides keep going – just like a chatbot ought to say "I don't know" instead making up nonsense.
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Yeah the overturned vehicle accident is interesting because you'd think they would train the NN on accident avoidance and its various modalities.

There is a multipage compliant fest over at TMC with respect to the speed changes in V12.6/13. Where now the set speed is just the max speed the vehicle can go, but it can go slower based on confidence level. Folks are mad that on empty roads the vehicle still won't go the max speed. 12.5 was bad enough that the vehicle would eventually slow down to like 30mph on roads for no apparent reason.
 
DT said:
Or maybe we'll see sooner :)

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Also, this is a terrific corporate message:

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nice! I am tempted. But it looks like no vehicles until 2027, so not something i need to worry about immediately. If i get a new car this year it’ll be a 3 year lease anyway.
 
Cmaier said:
nice! I am tempted. But it looks like no vehicles until 2027, so not something i need to worry about immediately. If i get a new car this year it’ll be a 3 year lease anyway.
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Tempted to plop a $100 no commitment reservation. Legal, legal, legal jargon.... Yes I agree!
 
Cmaier said:
nice! I am tempted. But it looks like no vehicles until 2027, so not something i need to worry about immediately. If i get a new car this year it’ll be a 3 year lease anyway.
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Yeah, not real sure on the timing, it'll be close, there's always lease extension options, but in general not sure what/where we'll be/need in 2 years (kind of a major life milestone with the daughter graduating).

But that's definitely a check in the plus column with ACP :)

rdrr said:
Tempted to plop a $100 no commitment reservation. Legal, legal, legal jargon.... Yes I agree!
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Do it if you can, it's sort of fun being a "future owner" even if it's not much of a commitment. :D At least with Rivian, the cancellation was a couple of clicks on their site, money returned in < 48 hours (that was the R1S, we still have our R2 reservation).
 
rdrr said:
Thinking of going full EV, but I am minus the two years of savings i was planning to have while keeping the car that much longer. Looking at the Volvo EX30, but it is a inaugural year for that model and I haven’t heard much on Volvo EV lines.

Anyone heard bad things about Volvo?
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My understanding is that Volvo's stuff has a lot of overlap with Polestar as it's the same parent company for both. I don't see a ton bad about either brand's EVs to be honest, and I do see them regularly on the road here in the PNW. I would like to see one in person myself.
 
BMWBLOG releasing their video before the official presser on Friday:



Looks great, nice incremental update as expected with an LCI (BMW parlance for a mid-model facelift)

Base MSRPs (+$1,175 destination and handling)

  • 2025 BMW iX xDrive45 $75,150
  • 2025 BMW iX xDrive60 $88,500
  • 2025 BMW iX M70 xDrive $111,500

50 becomes the 60, 45 is new for the US market and a new lower entry price, 70 in the new M spec vehicle.

Some nice i5 updates too:

  • first-time use of silicon carbide semiconductor components in the power electronics (SiC inverter)
  • tires with particularly low rolling resistance on aerodynamic light alloy wheels
  • fine optimization of the wheel bearings
  • range increase up to 47km

Plus some options becoming standard across the range (HK speakers, interaction bar)

New M-Sport interior (I guess option-able on the M70) is pretty hot!

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DT said:
BMWBLOG releasing their video before the official presser on Friday:



Looks great, nice incremental update as expected with an LCI (BMW parlance for a mid-model facelift)

Base MSRPs (+$1,175 destination and handling)

  • 2025 BMW iX xDrive45 $75,150
  • 2025 BMW iX xDrive60 $88,500
  • 2025 BMW iX M70 xDrive $111,500

50 becomes the 60, 45 is new for the US market and a new lower entry price, 70 in the new M spec vehicle.

Some nice i5 updates too:

  • first-time use of silicon carbide semiconductor components in the power electronics (SiC inverter)
  • tires with particularly low rolling resistance on aerodynamic light alloy wheels
  • fine optimization of the wheel bearings
  • range increase up to 47km

Plus some options becoming standard across the range (HK speakers, interaction bar)

New M-Sport interior (I guess option-able on the M70) is pretty hot!

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NACS port yet?
 
No, still CCS, sort of indicating to me the iX may not receive a native NACS port if it didn't come with this refresh, and the iX is due to be EOL-ed in '27?

Someone posted a pic of an i5 with a NACS port, I guess some test mule, but were suggesting current models migrating over (including the iX)

Honestly, for us, the very few DCFCs we need, if that requires a few seconds to stick on a NACS>CCS adapter (and that's assuming we'd even use a Tesla SuC), is just zero impact on ownership. We'd wind up hitting some of our usual trips where we use EA anyway (like the Keys) and have to use the opposite adapter (CCS >> NACS) anyway :D

Wow :cool:

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Some folks were talking about tow capacity on the Rivian forum, this product came up, pretty fantastic design. Ready to sell the house, hitch up to a matching blue Rivian R1S and hit the road :D

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I keep hearing about the latest, greatest new EV that has solar panels on the roof that can recharge it during the day and its battery pack is small but the car is so efficient that it gets a lot of range, isn't it just so cool and futuristic looking and it will be on the market soon. "Soon" has been the thing they have been saying for twenty years. Aptera is the definition of vaporware. We will have tokamaks running every city before that thing comes to market.
 
Indeed. You should see my refridgerator. There is all manner of strange fusion going on in there, that I would not touch without a radiation suit.
 

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