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I’m talking about the Equinox EV which is a different car on a different platform (BEV3 vs D2XX), so I don’t think you can make that comparison until the car ac

I’m talking about the Equinox EV which is a different car on a different platform (BEV3 vs D2XX), so I don’t think you can make that comparison until the car actually exists and people can give it a closer inspection and drive it for a while. I’ll give you the Korean competitors, but what Japanese competitor are you impressed by? The BZ4X/Solterra? MX-30? The Prologue which is a BEV3 car with a Honda sticker on it? Unfortunately the Niro / Kona suffer from slow charging and the Ioniq 5 / EV6 are in a higher price segment.

cpursley 4y ago
I'm 100% in agreement with you (and thanks for the detail, rare here). Japan is lethargic in terms of EVs despite an obvious tech advantage ... Ford is the only American car company that impresses me
- wlesieutre 4y ago
  Alas, the MME is also expensive and difficult to get. Though I appreciate their commitment to continued CarPlay support, presumably including the next-gen dashboardy version. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/ford-carplay-support-commitment/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/ford-carplay-support-commitme... In the meantime I'm probably going to wait things out in a Corolla hatchback or something. Equinox EV might've been in the sweet spot, but to spend $30-40k on it to just be squeezed for software subscriptions that probably won't even be good, ugh.
- wlesieutre 4y ago
  Though on second thought, I wonder if Chevrolet ditching CarPlay in the Blazer necessarily means that the Prologue won't have it. I don't know if they're borrowing the car software and aren't in a position to add that type of feature, but it's also possible someone at Honda wrote CarPlay into their software requirements and GM is still stuck implementing it. Bigger car than I want though. It's too bad Honda didn't decide to make an Equinox clone instead, the Prologue is 100% better looking than the Blazer.

cpursley 4y ago

I'm 100% in agreement with you (and thanks for the detail, rare here). Japan is lethargic in terms of EVs despite an obvious tech advantage ... Ford is the only American car company that impresses me

wlesieutre 4y ago
Alas, the MME is also expensive and difficult to get. Though I appreciate their commitment to continued CarPlay support, presumably including the next-gen dashboardy version. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/ford-carplay-support-commitment/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/ford-carplay-support-commitme... In the meantime I'm probably going to wait things out in a Corolla hatchback or something. Equinox EV might've been in the sweet spot, but to spend $30-40k on it to just be squeezed for software subscriptions that probably won't even be good, ugh.
wlesieutre 4y ago
Though on second thought, I wonder if Chevrolet ditching CarPlay in the Blazer necessarily means that the Prologue won't have it. I don't know if they're borrowing the car software and aren't in a position to add that type of feature, but it's also possible someone at Honda wrote CarPlay into their software requirements and GM is still stuck implementing it. Bigger car than I want though. It's too bad Honda didn't decide to make an Equinox clone instead, the Prologue is 100% better looking than the Blazer.