Volvo EX30 is madness

I never shouted at a car more than this car – and I mean outwardly, and expressed publicly frustrated by an unlimited object.

A trip on the road to the grocery store should be on the road to the grocery store. But for some reason, Volvo EX30 You will not stop zero in my face. My crime? It took a long time to adjust the fan speed. “Keep your eyes on the road,” warns me. But this is a problem to be you, the car, which was created.

To keep the cheap EX30 – starts at only $ 46195 in the United States – Volvo Gold heavy To reduce costs. There are almost no solid buttons in the entire cabin, with the exception of two windows in the central console. The door panels have no electronics within them; Specific amplifiers sit before the driver and the passenger on the impulse, while the door locks are the cabin controls in the central console. Even most materials in the cabin are recycled.

But recycling is not the problem here – it is a lack of material controls.

In order to adjust the fan speed or temperature in the EX30, you force you to lift your neck down to the bottom of the 12.3 -inch touch screen to reach the control elements on the screen, which is then buried within two within a separate menu. When doing this, there is no other option but to get your eyes out of the road, which leads to the reaction of the Volvo Big Brothy Driver Monitoring System quickly, which reminds you of keeping your eyes forward at all times.

Laying for a long time? Take a break. Manually change the radio station? Not on the Volvo watch. You are still on the horizon for a moment because you yearn to exist outside the walls of this confusing machine? Do not think about it, Bal.

This disease has spread like plague among car manufacturers, not only Volvo. Everything lives on the touch screen now. But even other guilty parties such as Mercedes -Benz and Lucid provides some rhythm in the form of material controls for basic functions.

In EX30, the company begged – will not be, Go With you to use the original Google audio control system. It is recognized that it is better than most of them, as it quickly responds to things such as changing temperature or setting a fan speed. But it is still more annoying than just wrapping the handle or pressing a switch.

To be fair to Volvo, some traditional controls have moved to the steering wheel, such as sound pioneers and menu options. fine. But until then, it is basically one piece of black plastic on both sides of the wheel with small sections separating individual options. Serious clicking function, and the lack of separation between these buttons makes it easy to hit the wrong thing by mistake.

A trip on the road to the grocery store should be on the road to the grocery store. But for some reason, Volvo EX30 will not stop the whistle in my face.

Not only lacking physical controls that make EX30 an exaggerated machine. There is no set of tool or head screen. Speed systems, range, trips, now and Safety are jammed over a small area at the top of the central screen, which makes you – forcing you –once again– To look away from the way to make sure that you do not exceed the maximum speed or outside the battery.

These fixed lists also mean that dropping your smartphone does not occupy the total beautiful touch screen; Apple CarPlay is higher and bottom with the original Volvo program. It is definitely not the worst crime of this car, but it adds to the washing list of inconvenience. And if you are an Android – Sorry. Although the Volvo operating system is a built -in Google interface, it does not have Android. It is almost difficult to believe.

EX30 also does not have a FOB key. Instead, Volvo Tesla mimics with a major card. It is an interesting idea in theory; An supplement to the credit card size that you wipe at the side door of the driver to cancel the car lock, then slide into your wallet. But Volvo must have forgotten that the house keys are present.

To actually drive the car, you should place the main card in a charging an opening near the floor plate, at the bottom of the touch screen. And if there is anything other than the main card – Say, the key chain or key to the house – in contact with the charging opening, a warning on the screen tells you to remove any of these accessories. Who do I think this was a good idea?

Better, the main card is hit and lost when opening the door – especially when it rains. Nothing is better than standing in the rain while slapping a major card on the side of the Volvo door several times while a pool leaks into sneakers.

It is a shame, because the EX30 is a solid car. It looks great, it’s comfortable, it’s calm, and it is good to lead when you are not released. There is also a handful of smart storage solutions in the front, including magnetic shelf and adjustable cup holders.

A distance of 253 miles of standard in the United States is not great, but this car is charged very quickly, as it gets 10 to 80 percent in just 27 minutes at a fast charger of 153 kW. The power of the 422 horse is also impressive – more than it actually needs a car.

But I cannot overcome technological weaknesses; EX30 EX30 makes uncomfortable in my book. For a very synonym for safety, Volvo’s decision to complicate the EX30 user interface is a big mistake.