Glad to see you're still enjoying your Volvo XC40, Walter! Far too many consumers swallow the Fossil Fool-Aid and believe the petrolganda against EVs. You certainly have disproven such FUD in this 3-year report. In my previous EV, the battery capacity had dropped to 94.35% after nearly 6 years and 78,737 miles. I've had my current EV for 10 months and 10,316 miles, and it still has 100% capacity. I can understand you wanting to disable that automated braking and warning rather than needing to do so every time you are backing up. Similarly, I wish I could permanently set i-Pedal in my EV. It's irksome to have to manually set it every time I put the car in drive.
Thank you for the kind words. The nanny safety watch which works its way into a few of the features, the back up breaking being one, is a bit of a down side. However, I was once told it was confirmed no one ever died in a Volvo XC90, the ICE version. They are a brand who prides themselves on driver safety, so I guess a bit bleed over is to be expected. Glad you too saw good battery range. I think my result was mostly due to the perfect weather we had last week and I am guessing in actuality I am somewhere around 3%-4% less then delivery, but I am not sure there is any way to know for sure. It was a fun test to do. I had been looking forward to doing so for my own interest in how the car is doing over time. Thx for watching.
I only watch the first 10 seconds of videos... I'm assuming the battery has had to be replaced once a year and you've been stranded on every trip longer than 100 miles. Great review!
Other than a few holdovers from its combustion sibling, I enjoyed spending a week with the XC40 Recharge and can see why you enjoy it. Appreciate you building a real-world range check into the review as well. Great stuff, thanks.
My Nissan LEAF's all 3 of them were near zero maintenance 1 set of wiper blades and windshield washer fluid and one set of tires on the used 2011 model I purchased when my wife took over my 2015 LEAF.
I looked at it briefly when I was looking for a replacement for my Kia Soul EV but I ended up waiting until I got a 2023 VW ID.4 RWD as the newer model Soul EV was never released in the US market. Perhaps a Kia EV3 might be in my future after my ID.4 although the Honda Prelude EV and Kia Niro EV I sat in tonight at the Seattle International Auto Show were pretty nice.
My car also has anxiety with rear cross traffic. It will stomp on the brake while you are backing out. The steering wheel vibrates and the driver's cluster is flashing red. Meanwhile the psngr is 30ft+ away.
Can you put the wipers into service position to lift them and clean under them? As in "ruclips.net/video/0Gm_f2cVcxU/видео.html". Not perfect, but. . . .
Glad to see you're still enjoying your Volvo XC40, Walter! Far too many consumers swallow the Fossil Fool-Aid and believe the petrolganda against EVs. You certainly have disproven such FUD in this 3-year report. In my previous EV, the battery capacity had dropped to 94.35% after nearly 6 years and 78,737 miles. I've had my current EV for 10 months and 10,316 miles, and it still has 100% capacity. I can understand you wanting to disable that automated braking and warning rather than needing to do so every time you are backing up. Similarly, I wish I could permanently set i-Pedal in my EV. It's irksome to have to manually set it every time I put the car in drive.
Thank you for the kind words. The nanny safety watch which works its way into a few of the features, the back up breaking being one, is a bit of a down side. However, I was once told it was confirmed no one ever died in a Volvo XC90, the ICE version. They are a brand who prides themselves on driver safety, so I guess a bit bleed over is to be expected. Glad you too saw good battery range. I think my result was mostly due to the perfect weather we had last week and I am guessing in actuality I am somewhere around 3%-4% less then delivery, but I am not sure there is any way to know for sure. It was a fun test to do. I had been looking forward to doing so for my own interest in how the car is doing over time. Thx for watching.
I only watch the first 10 seconds of videos... I'm assuming the battery has had to be replaced once a year and you've been stranded on every trip longer than 100 miles.
Great review!
Spot on. No need to go deep. Title screen is enough. ;-)
Other than a few holdovers from its combustion sibling, I enjoyed spending a week with the XC40 Recharge and can see why you enjoy it. Appreciate you building a real-world range check into the review as well. Great stuff, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed. It was a fun video to make that I had been looking forward to the content creation process. Have a good weekend.
My Nissan LEAF's all 3 of them were near zero maintenance 1 set of wiper blades and windshield washer fluid and one set of tires on the used 2011 model I purchased when my wife took over my 2015 LEAF.
Whoo Hoo, nice review of the XC 40 recharge.
Thanks for the review, Walter!
Nice 30 second summary! Still watching the rest 😉
Awesome, thank you!
I looked at it briefly when I was looking for a replacement for my Kia Soul EV but I ended up waiting until I got a 2023 VW ID.4 RWD as the newer model Soul EV was never released in the US market. Perhaps a Kia EV3 might be in my future after my ID.4 although the Honda Prelude EV and Kia Niro EV I sat in tonight at the Seattle International Auto Show were pretty nice.
My car also has anxiety with rear cross traffic. It will stomp on the brake while you are backing out. The steering wheel vibrates and the driver's cluster is flashing red. Meanwhile the psngr is 30ft+ away.
Right? My wife's LYRIQ can't backup during a rain event. Luckily it has an off switch for that feature. No love on the Volvo. thx 4 watching.
Can you put the wipers into service position to lift them and clean under them? As in "ruclips.net/video/0Gm_f2cVcxU/видео.html". Not perfect, but. . . .