Please re-design or improve the Climate Control / AC Navigation Controls

[DTown3011]

Unless you are anti Alexa, there’s no reason at all to take your eyes off the road to turn things on and off, and to adjust the fan and temperature in 99% of the typical use cases. I have been using Alexa for this since day 1 and all work great for me.

“Set fan to X” where X is 1 thru 7
“Set fan to low/medium/high”
“Set temperature to Z”
“Set heat/air conditioning on/off”
“Set seat heat to 1/2/3/Off”
“Set steering wheel heat on”

This is about the only thing Alexa is good for lol

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[1moreSoCal]

If you don’t have the heat/AC button on, what happens when you change the temperature?

I’ve tried adjusting the temperature with it off and it doesn’t seem to do anything. Do most people just leave this on all the time?

 

[Nine_One_Six_R1S]

Unless you are anti Alexa, there’s no reason at all to take your eyes off the road to turn things on and off, and to adjust the fan and temperature in 99% of the typical use cases. I have been using Alexa for this since day 1 and all work great for me.

“Set fan to X” where X is 1 thru 7
“Set fan to low/medium/high”
“Set temperature to Z”
“Set heat/air conditioning on/off”
“Set seat heat to 1/2/3/Off”
“Set steering wheel heat on”

Thanks for sharing these. Is there a comprehensive list of Alexa commands somewhere? I knew and have been using 2 of the ones you listed but the other ones I did not know.

 

[RIV206]

If you don’t have the heat/AC button on, what happens when you change the temperature?

I’ve tried adjusting the temperature with it off and it doesn’t seem to do anything. Do most people just leave this on all the time?

Its just blowing non- treated air from outside so adjusting the temp does nothing

 

[duessell]

Its just blowing non- treated air from outside so adjusting the temp does nothing

I've driven this way in mild weather and it probably increases efficiency 10-20%.

 

[Joel]

My rant about AC is that why does it need to switch back and forth between cool and warm A/C I do not get it. Whenever I set it to warm the cabin up, it blows warm air until it reaches the temp then it start to blow cool air... Never had a car like that before.

It should simply stop blowing warm air until the cabin cools down by itself when it needs to turn on the warm air again. And I do not even have a chance to change to 'warm only' mode.

There is this stupid icon showing cool/warm only.

Why no 'cool only' or 'warm only' is beyond me.

*rant off*

Totally agree with this one. In the Polestar 2 you can enable or disable heat and or cool modes.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I'd like real buttons and knobs please. And physical vanes to control air flow direction. As much as people despise huge touchscreen ac controls and countless studies (and a little common sense) prove how dangerous they are, here we are. This is when the oooh and aaaah people of the world trump people with common sense.

I'm quite surprised how often people say they need to access those controls. I think I might do it once a season.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Totally agree with this one. In the Polestar 2 you can enable or disable heat and or cool modes.

Wasn't originally that way. Progress!

 

[Joel]

Wasn't originally that way. Progress!

It has been that way now for at least a year. The added CarPlay is nice plus the most recent update puts Apple Maps with the speedo.

 

[irvineboy]

Ok I’m playing around with my climate settings. I notice in the front and middle of the R1S, it has a snow flake icon. In the rear, it doesn’t have a snowflake icon but only an air icon, does that mean anything?

 

[godfodder0901]

Ok I’m playing around with my climate settings. I notice in the front and middle of the R1S, it has a snow flake icon. In the rear, it doesn’t have a snowflake icon but only an air icon, does that mean anything?

It means that the rear are only vents, as stated in the manual.

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