Great everyday battery electric vehicle

Like - performance, Google automotive, build quality, handling, onePedal drive mode, subtle scandi design features Dislike - ride quality on undulating roads, cabin noise on gravel roads Details: Owned for 8 months and v happy so far. The finish quality and performance is world class. No issues so far - touch wood! Google automotive (GA) apart from a few niggles is fabulous. The upgrade that provided Apple CarPlay doesn’t make sense for me. GA lets you control 10 x more than CarPlay - like heated seats, fan speed, navigation etc and you get all the functionality you get from Google assistant. Some GA/touchscreen quirks - no equaliser on Spotify - it needs it badly, fan speed control is clunky - it defines distracted driving, can’t adjust screen brightness, swiping produces more screens on some functions but this isn’t indicated with icons. Ride quality over rough and gravel roads could do with improvement. Boominess inside cabin on gravel. The car is quite heavy (all those batteries) and not sprung adequately. When driving fast on undulating roads it struggles - reaching end of suspension travel too easily. Performance is exceptional - 100kmh in 4.9s and 180kmh 3.9 seconds later. Charging: Not a xc40 thing, but fast charging isn’t and Ultra fast is fast. It’s the only way to go - 10 to 80% in 40mins. But 98% of the time you never need to charge away from home anyway. Possible Improvements I’d like to see 1/. the cabin is dark. It would be nice to see different colours or highlights however It’s better at night with the cabin lights 2/. It would be good with another 100kms Range but with 350-380kms atm it’s adequate.

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