Thanks for that. I normally only use 7kW AC charging, and have never preconditioned. The link above is typical of Volvo's useless manual: "To avoid temporarily reduced performance from a cold battery, connect the car for charging and activate the car's preconditioning ahead of your trip. The c...

Does it precondition for slow AC, or id it only for faster DC? The answer is yes for both, but for different circumstances https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/ex30/24w17/article/f558786dce01385ec0a8b04a5cd4f99b-64e6c69fb31fe0e7c0a8b05d07769e5b-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409?search=Heating&am...

Geoff wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:51 pm I always charge at home; can the car be forced to precondition the battery or does it just condition it once it’s plugged in and charging?

Use Googlemaps to select ev charger and the car will then precondition for charging

Had a lovely one the other day, camera mis-read a dirty 30mph sign for 90mph

Wonder if the beta testers got a kick up the backside

“What, you didn’t check the app worked with the upgrade !!!!”

SeX30 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:02 am Still hasn’t made it up here to the East Midlands!
In better news our new windscreen has arrived from Sweden and is being fitted next week!

1.4.2 was installed OTA on Tuesday and I’m in Derbyshire. Received my car in March

Carpasio wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:48 pm Had the same message so logged off and on again - seemed to work.

Has had no effect on my app - same red box persists

RichTea wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:22 pm I'm having similar trouble with the app today as well having had it work fine previously. It could be a temporary error.

Mine’s decided to tw@ about as well. My fault I suppose, I was too happy with CarPlay. The Volvo universe restoring itself to equilibrium

Happened to me a couple of times. Once surprisingly, wet, steep hill, bend (performance off) and once on purpose same place (performance on). First time, front motor kicked in and straightened the car up nicely. Second time, we’ll I’m still grinning Last AWD that I owned was a 300hp Impreza and this...

My charger (Zappi) allows me to find out how much charge has been supplied for a defined date period (max of 31 days). For public chargers I look at the receipts. As SP1959, I keep a spreadsheet, brothers in nerddom