Yeah looks snazzier. Do you think we'll ever get remote lock / unlock? that little lock icon is just begging to be pressed.

 

I don’t know if they even have that on the cars with the newer software…

 

Wow, so much more responsive. I don't have to keep restarting the app each time I want to use it.

 

Wow I’m so impressed that the app still doesn’t successfully send commands to my car.

 

Have you ever pulled the fuse?

 

Maybe one day it won’t force me to logon nearly every darn time I use it…

 

Definitely significant improvement on previous garbage bottom grade dumpster fire version.

 

So now it is only a trash can on fire, as opposed to the dumpster fire it used to be? LOL

 

Bad thing is it no longer shows time to charge anymore, they instead show battery percentage while charging. Would be nice to not lose one for the other.

 

The Android app was updated and it now shows battery percentage (something I really want so I can charge a little over 80% before going to get my car from the nearby charger I use). But it also shows the estimated time remaining and the estimated range. I'm surprised the iOS app doesn't show that.

 

What I'm failing to understand, from an Android user's perspective, is why I have to unlock with my fingerprint to open the app, then immediately unlock again to access the vehicle? I imagine there'll be an additional requirement to ID me once we get door unlock feature working. I'm already vetted just by unlocking my phone to open the app, and I fail to see how doubling up on fingerprint requirements to get to the specific vehicle makes any sort of sense.

Android got the "bigger font" update as well and a new splash screen, but I'm not seeing any other changes. Mine continues to send commands reliably.

 

The simple observation that they are working on it is encouraging. I suppose if you hire a bunch of new programmers it probably takes several months before you get to the point where you trust them to release something.

 

I was starting to think I was crazy, so I started the charging session again and I did see the time left to charge. In this situation I set it to 100% just so it would charge and show me the status. We had charged it to 90% in case we lost power here (in North Carolina). It shows 11 hours and 5 minutes to completion.

It does need to be actually charging to show this information.

 

I might circle back next time I charge. I updated in the middle of a charging session so that may have been why I didn't get the time remaining. I like the % but the time to charge was more useful for me as the chargers at my work are quite popular and typically all in use so I like to get my car unplugged and moved ASAP once done.

 

Well at least the updated app allows me to change the temperature again. Back when the app was Car-Net it worked fine - no endless sign in (face ID would work) and all functions worked fine until it became myVW and then I could not change the temperature setting anymore, and every login needed username and password.

Yesterday I charged at EA and the time left for charging wasn't shown in the app. Previously under myVW it was sometimes there, sometimes not.

Unrelated but when I got back to my car (I live about a minute walk from EA so I plug in and walk back home when it's charging) there was a Lucid Air plugged in. Nice car but MUCH smaller than I was expecting. More like a Polestar 2 size wise whereas I was expecting it to be a much larger size sedan.

 

My iPhone app still logs me in automatically using Face ID. It appears to work as it has been since the recent upgrade.

On the other hand, my car randomly decided last night to change over to Immediate Charging, and even though all the settings (even the Immediate Charging one) are at 70%, it charged it to 80%.

I wonder what kind of car Oliver Blume drives. Almost certainly a Porsche.

 

I have had all my settings at 70% since the day I bought it. But the VW recommendation is 80%. I'm wondering now if there is a hardwired default value of 80% in there somewhere, and when the code loses track of what it's supposed to do, it reverts to 80%.

 

There is a battery maintenance mode in the new car software. It will reset to 80% after each charge. I think you can disable it. I don't have it because I have a 2021 with 2.1 software.

 

Welp I am at an EA DCFC station which is working fine but the car still wants 80%.

Edit: It stopped at 70% as desired. Why did the EA display show a line at 80%?

 

I think that’s the default target for EA.

 

So charged again today and no time to complete charging still. Side benefit though it now notifies me when it is done charging which is was not doing prior to this update despite the setting being configured.

 

So charged again today and no time to complete charging still. Side benefit though it now notifies me when it is done charging which is was not doing prior to this update despite the setting being configured.

I did get the charging complete notification once or twice even before this update, but then it went away and hasn't come back...

 

To be fair the MEB platform is "all new"in a lot of ways and supposed to serve as a foot in the door as an adaptable foundation on which to build a compact, a SUV, a minivan, etc., and also be adaptable to meet the needs of the premium segment.

They could have gutted a Tiguan but they had already done that with the Golf, and were wanting to build off of that learned experience, so they wouldn't be trapped in old architecture – like the Kia eNiro or Volvo XC40 recharge. A clean sheet modular platform is so much more efficient (cost and design-wise, but maybe even electrically).

My impression where they went wrong is they didn't go far enough. As a shortcut they relied on existing modules and tried to wrap the code that drives them into their new system, and that's largely what's responsible for system lag, difficulty to update, integration, and bugs. But it was expedient and got the product to market!

I'm sure VW wishes they could walk back some of those early platform decisions that have proven to be mistakes.