Volvo 245 Reviews

Can you hear what’s coming over the horizon? Probably not, because it’s a swathe of near-silent Electric Vehicles (EVs), set to supersede the bog-standard gas-guzzling Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) car within the next decade or two. 

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Reports out of the UK overnight have highlighted numerous software gremlins impacting examples of Volvo’s recently released EX30 EV SUV sold there. But Australian customers can rest easy with the local subsidiary telling CarsGuide vehicles delivered here are not affected.According to Autocar serious software issues have caused a range of faults from media screens going black and steering-wheel buttons not responding to cars failing to charge and emergency braking systems randomly activating.Despite Volvo UK’s commitment to rectify the problems “as swiftly as possible” the Autocar report alleges some owners have handed their cars back for refund.But a Volvo Australia spokesperson has confirmed this market’s status as a “deep water” export destination has helped it side-step the electrical problems.The deep water term relates to EX30 production in China taking around three weeks from build to showroom in Australia while delivery to Europe can be closer to nine weeks.And that flexibility has meant local cars had the latest, updated software installed to side-step any problems before customers took delivery.Speaking of which, the city-sized SUV has proved popular straight out of the gate. In its third month on sale the city-sized SUV recorded over 400 registrations for a year-to-date total (end June) in excess of 1000 units.

If you think electric vehicles might be just a fad, like a Rubik’s Cube or a Livestrong bracelet, or even those Oakley stickers everyone had on their windscreens that said “Thermonuclear Protection”, we have news for you: EVs aren’t going anywhere. They’re going everywhere.

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This might seem controversial, but really it’s just logical. If the idea of switching to electric vehicles instead of using combustion-engined cars was entirely about reducing the amount of CO2 produced, it stands to reason car companies would design EVs to be as small, and light, as possible, which, at first, they did (witness the Nissan Leaf, which was, for some time, the world’s biggest-selling