For those of you with EVs, I highly recommend the “A Better Route Planner” app for long trips. It not only tells you where the chargers are but it works with google or apple maps for navigation and will let you see if there are any machines that are broken or occupied and what restaurants, hotels, and even dog friendly spaces are available around the chargers. It’s fantastic.
Thanks, we have a Chevy Blazer EV and haven’t tried any long trips for that reason. This should help ease our anxiety.
@feloneouscat Yay! Glad I could help! How are you liking the car? We have a Bolt.
It’s really nice. The infotainment is a clusterf@@@ (I write software). It’s messy, inconsistent and puts important things in layers upon layers of rubbish.
The guts of the software (the embedded software that makes it go) is very good.
But the eye candy frequently is too much and not very helpful. For instance if the car is stopped it will tell me what % the car is charged. If I check status while driving it won’t tell me that. Just how many miles are left. Ugh.
@feloneouscat That has been my only complaint with the car as well. In all other respects, it’s fantastic. Comfortable, nimble, quick, great hvac, good cargo room for a compact car, good ergonomics…but that infotainment is not great. I use Apple car play with google maps, and I like the screen size and ease of use for that, but I literally never use any of the rest of the software they put on the system. It’s clunky and not intuitive.
I wish GM would not reinvent the wheel. They are carmakers not user interface engineers. UI is incredibly hard and complex and NEVER straight forward. Just because the code works doesn’t mean it’s intuitive (and this is the part engineers DO NOT understand).
Why is one of the options NOT something people are used to? Gauges like on a gas guzzler. They’re intuitive and quick to read. Add digital, but this clutter doesn’t help.