Perplexed
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Hi all,
I picked up my R1S on Jan 20th here in Ontario, Canada (my first EV).
Here are a few thoughts after 20 days of use.....
Here are some positives:
And now for some "could do better":
Definitely a heap of fun to drive and am looking forward to summer time.
Thanks and have fun!
I picked up my R1S on Jan 20th here in Ontario, Canada (my first EV).
Here are a few thoughts after 20 days of use.....
Here are some positives:
- Very fast
- Love the look and feel
- Build quality is excellent (interior and exterior)
- Performance is amazing and I love that the ride height can be adjusted
- The 21" road tires perform well (haven't tried taking off the hubs as yet)
- The on-screen features are mostly well laid out
- The built-in security features are a great touch (recording of motion, incidents etc)
- Seamlessly connected to my garage door
- Car wash mode is perfect
- The feature to schedule the cabin heating/cooling is fantastic)
- Overall very happy with the vehicle
And now for some "could do better":
- Would have liked the 3rd row to be automatic folding/unfolding (as it stands you have to open one of the rear doors to pull these back up)
- Should come with a side rail as standard so its easier for shorter and older people to get in and out
- I find that the High Driving Assist is flakey - it doesn't always work and sometimes prompts you to switch it off as it states that (there is no availability). In short, I don't quite fully trust it. This definitely needs to be looked at as it was a feature of my previous vehicle (Palisade) that I really appreciated on long drives.
- Would be nice to programme the buttons on the right side of the steering wheel.
- Would be handy to turn lane keeping and collision braking off with a shortcut button - sometimes I want to get through traffic quicker and these features constantly bleep and vibrate.
- The navigation needs to be upgraded - isn't it using google maps? If so, we need some of the basic options such as toll-road avoidance / route options. Having those means that I no longer need to rely on my phone (currently there is no way to avoid toll roads).
- The buttons on the right of the steering wheel do not have any function outside of HDA (as far as I can tell).
- Another improvement would be to allow streaming of motion video to the mobile app
- Also, it would be nice to see a daily report on how many km were lost due to factors other than distance driven. e.g if the reading is I have 200km range and I drive 100km in distance but the remaining range is 50km - I'd like to see at a glance that 50km were lost to whatever else (weather, heating, sports mode etc).
- Cold snaps def have a huge impact on batteries! (anything below -10 is going to suck the life out!).
Definitely a heap of fun to drive and am looking forward to summer time.
Thanks and have fun!
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