kevinjel

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[–] kevinjel 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I drive an EV6 GT latest model in the EU. Such a great car, has touch knobs for all the important stuff like vents and airco which are easy to use. The software in the car is fine, and does its job, but i mainly use wireless apple carplay (in GT line only). With HDA it comes to a complete stop and accelerates when the car in front drives up, i hardly use the pedals in highway driving, it has auto lane change and the weel has hands on detection, so resting 1 finger on the wheel is enough to have no warnings coming up. Camera (front and back) are great and parking is a breeze, even in dark conditions

Seats are comfortable in GT line all are motorized configurable as is the steering wheel, lots of space in front and back, backseats angle can be changed individually. With 84kw battery the range is fine, around 500kms more or less, fast charge goes from 20-80 in 18 min.

Other big feature is the app/digital key, i never wear the big clunky key. I open the car by just standing next to it with my Apple Watch. Remote app on phone can enable almost everything except the trunk, but heating car, seats (front and back) and wheel is nice on cold days. Also sharing the digital key is easy if someone needs to drive the car, just send them a message.

Maybe only cons: trunk is not that spacious and sits quite high (no depth downwards). My 12v battery died after 2k ish kms, but that was a faulty one as the garage said, no issues after the replacement, i have 26k done now.

Compared to other cars like BMW for example, it is such a bang for buck looking at options vs price. The features of KIA (and Honda, Korean made) are massive, and they work, while others you still get mediocre things.

Lemme know if you want some more info

[–] kevinjel 3 points 7 months ago

We drove to Spain from Netherlands in an EV for our family holiday. The NL infrastructure for charging is great because there is/was a lot of need for chargers due to the government subsidizing electric vehicles + the infrastructure for the past decade.

Crossing borders, we found a decent amount of (fast) chargers in Belgium, Luxemburg and i was amazed that each France gas station, on our route, had a lot of fast chargers and even employees managing the flow of people if there was a line of EVs who wanted to charge.

Then we entered Spain … the horror. Didn't find a working charger at any of the gas stations we stopped. Had to go trough a mcdonalds or public shopping area with big shops to find a working charger. There were almost never Spanish electric cars there, only tourists. No slow 10kwh chargers in the towns on walking distance from our stay to leave the car on overnight. I went to the Aldi and the charger was only active during opening hours!? It was a very bad experience. I have a company RFID tag that works with almost all chargers in Europe, but for Spain there is a very low coverage, so had the hassle to pay upfront with credit card.

So things should become better when there are more Spanish people start driving an electric cars, perhaps the government will/needs to do some investments there, also because more tourists come in or even skip Spain because of bad charging infra.

[–] kevinjel 3 points 8 months ago

There is an approve step before sending out the text message. I also have set it up that it checks between a certain period, so around the time i normally leave the office to drive home.

[–] kevinjel 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When im near the office and my phone connects with my carplay, it sends a message to my wife with the ETA for me to get home, opens waze to start a route towards home, and opens spotify.

[–] kevinjel 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Do you have any recommendations (or pointers) for a “secure” blob storage host i can put my personal fam pics on and mount that to immich?

I have a (mid-tier) linux VPS running somewhere, some ideal setup would be to mount the blob and show/share pics via immich on VPS, and i will automate putting the pics in the blob from all the devices we own

[–] kevinjel 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any good resources you can share for/on each topic?