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At $36,245, The 2025 Volvo EX30 Is One Of The Cheapest EVs On The Market (jalopnik.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other mildly interesting details:

Touchscreen controls for everything. Boo.
Made in China, but Geely appears to be doing an unusually good job at keeping its manufacturing generally unproblematic. Volvo also independently monitors the material sourcing for their batteries.
It's very close in size to the VW Golf (EX30: 167x72×61 inches, Golf: 168x71x58 inches). For our friends across the pond, it is hard to overstate how rare vehicles this small are becoming in the US. Out of the 162 new/refreshed vehicles released in the US 2018-2022 (according to KBB), only 14 or so were this size or smaller -- and that's being generous, I'm including things like the Toyota C-HR.
Volvo dodged the 27.5% tariffs with a rarely-used bylaw: they export more product from the US to China than vice versa, so they don't have to pay the tariffs on the few things they do import.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the touchscreen for everything is trash. And AFAIK in Polestars, the buttons that are not in the touchscreen are capacitive with haptic feedback. Like, why not just make that a button?