I’ve been driving an EX 30 with the Mist interior for the last two weeks now. Whilst I was initially disappointed that the flax detailing was covered in plastic, having had two weeks of almost solid rain here in the UK, I’m actually very grateful. When these fabrics get wet they darken, and I’m so concerned about the fabric coated door bins getting stained, that I’m not actually using them. I’ve even bought Volvo seat covers to put over the passenger and driver seats, because even though I have paid for protection coating For the interior, I still noticed that the fabrics are water wettable
Astonishing that we went from high gloss lacquered wood to open pore wood, and now we're at resin coated linen/flax and might eventually reach open pore/raw fabrics.
I doubt if I would ever turn on the ambient themes. But the Mist interior is growing on me as well as the flax trim. I saw the flax with the Breeze during the US dealers roadshow. Paired with the dots was not at all to our liking. Thus waiting to actually to see all the options at a dealer later this year. I expect the US will be getting 2025 models as well. Since the new model production (2026) starts in the Spring beginning to think that is when we will seriously do our EV shopping.
Hi, thanks you very much for your valuable testing as real user. It would be interesting check how it drains when parked/not used (i.e. after one day, two days, a week to see how it eats and if it is linear with time, if there isn't a sort of "deep sleep" function after a while...).
do you think there is a place for a aftermarket obd2 speedo? or even a heads up display? would you be able to see it through the terrible steering wheel ? (compared to my xc60) does the car even have an odb2 plug?
Yes, the car have an ODB2-plug but I would tell you to wait until you have driven the car a week. The actual speed is not the problem with the screen, the problem is with smaller messages that pops up and from what I know, there are no third parties that can show you that.
About the buttons... Any idea from which date they are manufacturing model year 2025? I don't think they've started the manufacturing of my car yet, just hope that my buttons will be better...
Sorry, I don't know. However, they have stopped taking orders for the Model Year 2024 and if I remember correctly, Volvo usually changes model year around June-July in their factories.
@@rere3960 Hi R, brilliant thanks for the clarification. When I was at Volvo, the salesperson insisted I was mistaken. Seems I knew more than he did and bit my tongue when he was speaking to other buyers. I went ahead and ordered the Crystal White with “speckle” dash
I originally ordered with Mist, until i realised it had wool in it (personal preference). It's the nicest looking by far. Switched to Indigo, which i think also looks really nice.
I'll never understand why most manufacturers put glossy buttons on the wheels... Even worse when they are touch capacitive. All the talks about safety, annoying beeps everywhere, and then they do shit like this, or forcing you to navigate through a menu on a screen while driving, to change the speed of the wiper (!). It's like idiots designing interiors don't even really drive... Looks like they changed a bit the buttons in the newer releases, but they are still glossy touch ones... Hope for an after market mod for those tbh.
