Your numbers are a bit higher than what I get here in NL. Even in winter (0-5°C), my EV stays below 19 kWh/100km, and in ideal conditions (20-25°C), it’s around 15 kWh/100km. Data from Teslamate (sorry for the ugly format):
That's from driving VW ID3s, Cupra Borns, Polestars mostly in a city with shorter trips outside. I admit the Mercedes EQB included a trip on the Autobahn with the occasional 90-100 mph.
It's interesting to see all the comments about how physical buttons help keep your eyes on the road, but I’ve actually had the opposite experience. I'm probably not the typical driver, though—I tend to set everything just the way I want before starting a trip. While driving, I only adjust basic controls like the air conditioning, wipers, blinkers, and cruise control, all of which I can do in my Tesla without taking my eyes off the road.
Recently, I drove a Volvo and a Polestar and found that using physical buttons required me to look down to see what I was pressing. Even after over 20 hours of driving, I couldn’t adapt back to physical buttons scattered across the dashboard. I really missed the streamlined, contextual controls I’m used to.
I've got a full analog Fiat Punto 2017 and almost fully digital VW Polo 2024 and I find the second one more dangerous, distracting, I just can't but hate it (I know it might be me).
When I lease cars abroad the more digital they are, the more complex I find them to use and the more annoyed I am.
To be honest, pretty much everything that gets more digital I hate it, even more than cars it applies to house appliances. Wi-fi connected dish washers, smartphone-controlled ovens, smart fridges, they create more problems while solving made up ones.
This is why choice is good in the market. What’s dangerous and distracting for you may be comfortable for me. Funny also that you mentioned connected devices as well. Recently a physical button died on my washer and I was able to still use it through home assistant integration while I waited for service.
There is no choice, everything's moving to digital because it's cheaper.
Tesla literally changed their entire UX and UI from one day to the other confusing my in-law for weeks.
What used to be standard icons on all cars on analog knobs and buttons are now stylized bs all different from car to car. Every car I need to learn its own menus and try to find where are things hidden, as someone who has to lease cars often I truly hate it.
Your washer example is comedy because it either confirms that it's yet another digital crap for something like this to happen. Never had good washers/fridges or whatever had their physical buttons or knobs break bar a stove one in 37 years of my life because of an accident, and fixing it was few euros without the need of service.
I also got stuck on that same part. I'm just going to guess they thought there was a requirement to run the Roon server on a Nucleus (the premium hardware they sell to host Roon). I personally run mine on my NAS in a docker container and it's been running great for years.
It's true, but the cost is much higher. Normally I see folks using another vendor nearby in the same parking lot as as the Supercharger as they can get a better rate. In the future I think the other vendors will catch up unless some EV bubble bursts.
That seems to be only for streaming your own files and doesn't have an existing library. That's the benefit of Apple Music to me, I don't really have a full local library of all my music. I stream what they have, and then if I find something missing I'll source it from somewhere, upload it, and then forget about it.
I don't really want to give up the built-in music library cause there's a lot of benefit to that too.
It's a little bit more nuanced. It allows you to merge both cloud services like Qobuz/Tidal with your "local" music which could be on a NAS or even Dropbox. Not exactly what you're asking for, however, it's close.
> Many of us will never be able to plug in at home.
Why is this a major concern? There's no possibility for me to plug in at home and my EV works just fine. Public charging stations are totally sufficient and the long range means I don't have to charge but every few weeks. Of course this is totally location specific (Netherlands).
> Why is this a major concern? There's no possibility for me to plug in at home and my EV works just fine.
It’s not a major concern. It’s just a buying factor. For those who can plug in at home it’s a plus. It’s a weak con for me. I’d rather not have to do two 60 minutes charges a week vs 4 minutes at a fuel station.
It’s light years from a scientific study but I definitely notice a lot more EVs on residential streets with off-street parking than not. In the UK at least it’s easy to spot/count them as the number plates have a green stripe indicating zero emissions.
I can understand how the difference in time spent fueling at a petrol station vs charging station would be a hurtle for a lot of folks. For me I don't even notice. When I'm getting close to 20% I just park a little further down the street at a charger. Total time spent fueling from my perspective is the time to hook up and remove the charger (about 2 minutes) + about 2 minutes walking back and forth. The rest of the time is passive as it's just parked overnight. Ironically on road trips I've found it actually takes less time to charge than to fuel because the gas stations in Europe are so busy this summer. Sometimes there's a 30 - 45 minute wait just to get into the stations :(. Meanwhile I just cruise right into a supercharger, use the restroom, and by the time I'm back it's ready to go.
Setting up the proximity unlock is a manual step and decision you make. You can just not do this and use the keycard + pin if you're wanting more security.
As an expat American I was originally super pleased to see something like this was finally happening, however, this was quickly diminished once I tried signing up. It requires documents like a phone bill in English to verify my identity, which I simply cannot provide.
Norway has an electronic id system, and when I went back over christmas, before I had verified that I could "pretend to be a foreigner" when filling in covid entry documentation, I figured I'd try getting one of those id's finally, since you can use them all over the place for Norwegian based services. I moved to the UK before they became common, so I've never had one.
Cue catch-22: To get one I needed to be able to receive mail at the address held by Norwegian tax authorities. They require you to file one notification when you move out of the country giving your new address, but not only don't require you to file notifications when you move again, but actively tell you not to. You can however tell them your new postal address which will be registered separately.
Except I'd never bothered before because I had no reason to, and now, to register a new postal address online or in fact to even get to the page that tells you how to file one, you need to log in with the an electronic id.
Fun times. I sent them an e-mail before christmas asking how exactly they expected me to be able to inform them of my new postal address - I'm sure they do have a fallback - but they've not yet answered.
Thankfully the department responsible for the covid entry forms answered my e-mails within an hour or two and told me it was fine to just fill in the form intended for foreign citizens so figuring out the electronic id it is now only a slightly amusing exercise in questioning the workings of bureaucracy (there workarounds I'm fairly certain would work involving showing up at the embassy or arranging to get a Norwegian bank account opened via the London office of a Norwegian bank, but since I don't actually need one, I haven't bothered exploring those)
Temp: 35°C | Efficiency: 77.3% | Consumption: 177 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 94.6 km/h Temp: 30°C | Efficiency: 70.6% | Consumption: 194 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 75.8 km/h Temp: 25°C | Efficiency: 88.7% | Consumption: 154 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 64.6 km/h Temp: 20°C | Efficiency: 93.8% | Consumption: 146 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 61.9 km/h Temp: 15°C | Efficiency: 81.1% | Consumption: 169 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 55.8 km/h Temp: 10°C | Efficiency: 79.9% | Consumption: 171 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 54.9 km/h Temp: 5°C | Efficiency: 77.0% | Consumption: 177 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 54.5 km/h Temp: 0°C | Efficiency: 73.0% | Consumption: 187 Wh/km | Avg Speed: 50.2 km/h