Probably for a similar reason I needed to reboot my phone this morning when I had no bars. As new EV cars are effectively computers on a chassis, with complex software architectures, they need to build in simpler ways of doing a hard-reboot (power off and on). Maybe there's a market for someone to m...

So Kris (?) at Battery life has spent time at VW recently being informed of the upgrade path (from 2.1/2.3 >> garage for 2.4 & new components Q2 >> 3.0 OTA Q3/4). Three videos to watch: What to expect/ how to upgrade to 2.4: https://youtu.be/_KoJkj4Bbhk What to expect in 3.0: https://youtu.be/im...

Kris (Battery Life) on YouTube has a video about this ODB stuff.



Warning - hacking your car may void your Warranty!

Got an email from Ohme today saying they're able to talk to the VW.id Ali This means that having to look at your charge % separately and then setting an amount in the Ohme app, the Ohme app can read your car's % and set a target %. It also offers a "preconditioning" option, which I assume ...

Time to move on from the v2.3 OTA debacle and look forward to the upcoming v3. Posting this now as Herbert Diess dropped a few hints this week as to what to expect. So far... - V2H (77kw only) - higher charging rate (DC) - hearing that the underlying SW architecture has had a refactoring. - what els...

I've just looked at my bank account and noticed that my WeCharge subscription (to get reduced fee at Ionity) was not only deducted on the 2nd Feb, but two more debits were taken on 8 Feb without notification. I've emailed asking for an explanation. Anyone else with a WeCharge sub noticed similar beh...

Also made the mistake last week of setting a scheduled pre-heat daily - even though I use the car occasionally at different times. Bye-bye 20%+.

Having had it confirmed by a couple of other posts here it appears the scheduled heating has a bug of defaulting to a LHD setup by turning on the Left seat, in our cases the passenger seat!

I understood it to be standard on the infotainment system with the slider volume control setup. Hand gestures are driven by the proximity sensor on the infotainment screen. Go to one of the multi-widget pages with icons on and move your hand towards the screen; does caption text magically appear and...

That first 'long trip' in your electric vehicle where range anxiety may actually be a thing does give many drivers that remaining bit of confidence in their vehicle that they may have been lacking. You're correct, bladder and comfort anxiety probably kick in before battery limits; we just need to ge...