• Thevenin@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Other mildly interesting details:

      • Touchscreen controls for everything. Boo.
      • Made in China, but Geely appears to be doing an unusually good job at keeping its manufacturing generally unproblematic. Volvo also independently monitors the material sourcing for their batteries.
      • It’s very close in size to the VW Golf (EX30: 167x72×61 inches, Golf: 168x71x58 inches). For our friends across the pond, it is hard to overstate how rare vehicles this small are becoming in the US. Out of the 162 new/refreshed vehicles released in the US 2018-2022 (according to KBB), only 14 or so were this size or smaller – and that’s being generous, I’m including things like the Toyota C-HR.
      • Volvo dodged the 27.5% tariffs with a rarely-used bylaw: they export more product from the US to China than vice versa, so they don’t have to pay the tariffs on the few things they do import.
      • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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        Yeah, the touchscreen for everything is trash. And AFAIK in Polestars, the buttons that are not in the touchscreen are capacitive with haptic feedback. Like, why not just make that a button?