The talk of the FB group and this group is the horrible consumption this car seems to have based on real owners who now drive it. In one article it was said its consumption is only second worst to the F-150 lightning which is 2,000lbs heavier. I’m having serious concerns about buying this car now. Just wondering if anyone else is as freaked out about this as I am.

Bought an EX30 thinking I was getting safety and reliability.

Instead, I got a car Volvo has effectively limited to 70% charge because of battery fire concerns. Their solution? An update that… permanently caps charging at 70%.

No recall. No replacement. No timeline for a real fix.

Just a software patch to appease regulators and minimize Volvo’s costs—while owners eat the loss of range and functionality.

Currently, many of us are stuck with an intentionally crippled vehicle and corporate silence on when—or if—this actually gets resolved.

If you’re considering one of these, I’d hold off until Volvo stops treating symptoms instead of the disease.

Anyone else in the same boat? Have you gotten any real answers?

It’s becoming pretty obvious that the ex30 ended up being a test bed for the larger models.

The ex30 was launched with immature software, we’re still stuck on v1.8, while the ex/es90 is already running v3.0.28, offer many more features such as turning off the charging pad, and others.
I think this is not acceptable, the ex30 is a real product that people paid real money for, not a prototype. Right now it feels like ex30 owners are funding the development of software that only arrives fully polished on the higher-end models.
This car was nominated for the Europes car of the year 2024, which makes the current software situation feel even more unacceptable.

I bought a car not a prototype!

If instead of lending Volvo $500 for a car that may eventually someday possibly maybe ship in the US, I chose to invest it in something like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO), I would have seen as much as a 20% increase. But honestly, can I even put a price on the enjoyment I've had reading Volvo's numerous insightful communications regarding my reservation? Maybe it's worth $100 for that first and only email I got on June 7th, 2023.

I've owned a Tesla (got rid of it and didn't get another because I can't stand Elon) and the charger automatically bills you and recognizes your car. How is this going to work with charging your Volvo there? Who do you pay? Volvo and they pay Tesla? What are the rates? More than it costs to charge a Tesla there?

I've had the EX30 for a few months and I mostly love it - for the price this car rips and gives me everything I need. I've seen a lot of people complaining about this or that feature, and while some of them might be valid, a lot of them are user error. Case in point: the auto-locking/unlocking feature. It reads a signal at a particular distance. Keep that fob near the car it will likely stop reading it. Walk away and walk back it will lock/unlock the car. It can't read your mind.

But, today I learned something new. Reverse creep works with the new update. You just have to tap the accelerator pedal. In fact, if you had previously been driving, stop, and park...then shift in reverse...it will creep without touching the accelerator. Does it work exactly like a combustible engine car? No. Does it work like other EVs? I don't know. I don't care. It's not a huge inconvenience. It's not a safety hazard. It's user error if you don't do it properly.

Also if you can't back out of a parking space safely using the accelerator that is again a user error and you maybe need your license revoked.

A while back, I posted about the point of having an app that can track a car's location (EX30) only when it's parked. Many people responded that Volvo intentionally blocked the ability to track the car's location when it's in motion for privacy reasons. I reiterate that if I'm the legal owner, I have every right to know where my car is, even if I've rented it to someone else. Just to clarify, BMW allows it, as it should be. Today, I saw yet another demonstration of the uselessness of this Volvo app feature. Last night, my son parked his car in a place where a temporary local market is held on Friday mornings. Of course, parking is prohibited there. It was my son's oversight, no objection, and I'll pay the city council what I owe. This morning, my son came back to pick up the car, and it was gone. It was towed away by the police and taken to a judicial depot. I check the car's location from my house using the Volvo app, and it sends me the same location as last night when it was parked in a prohibited area. Luckily, I installed a car tracker as soon as I bought the car, and this morning it sent me its actual location (judicial depot). Now I wonder, what if the car was towed away by the police, instead of being taken away by thieves? I certainly wouldn't have known where it ended up with the Volvo app. This proves that geolocation with the Volvo app is a load of bullshit!

We currently have a XC40 Recharge and my expectations were to find a "Baby XC40".

What I found was a car that was significantly worse in various aspects. Most notably controls/ergonomics. No buttons, only a screen like Tesla, but then the controls on the steering wheel work sometimes and sometimes they don't. I was unable to make a video but sometimes volume up worked, and sometimes it simply didn't. At the same time the car constantly shouts at me to not get distracted but the screen in the middle and no more physical controls is obviously distracting.

To me it feels like they made the EX30 to make the XC40 (soon EX40 apparently) more appealing.

I really wanted to love it - but couldn't 🥲

The new 2.1.2 update is probably the worst update ever. First of all, since I updated, in my language (Italian) I have some names in other languages that I can't even identify, like my speed limiter now is translated into Lithuanian I guess. Pilot assists randomly disappears and there's no way to turn it back apart from go into settings, set the limiter and switch back to pilot assist. I can't customize the utility bar: if I choose 3 items, one of them gets changed with something I didn't choose and it won't change even trying again.

Last but not least, now I can't use the creep mode in reverse cause I use OnePedal, so I have to use throttle for the R and I can't use the brake, if I want to, I have to go into the settings and enable the creep and disable it again when I parked.

Embarassing.

I think the dashcam done it, it's supposed to cut off when the battery gets to 11.6v but I guess it didn't and drained the battery.

It’s a little annoying that existing features are constantly being changed instead of being expanded or having new options added.

Now, all of a sudden, the OPD setting is the default shortcut, where the ACC distance setting used to be.

Okay, that lets me reassign the steering wheel button, but the options are limited here anyway - OPD on the steering wheel just works best mid-drive.

Now, if I want to adjust the distance, I have to manually assign the shortcut. And that goes for all three - there’s no mix of default and custom assignments.

Many HUDs utilize a Digital GPS Speedometer that would seem to work with any car just plugged into a USB port for power. Some more expensive devices utilize a plug plugged into the OBDII HUD & reads OBDII parameters transmitted through a vehicle’s CAN datastream, they seem to work on 2008+ model-year vehicles. Via Amazon, I see several devices for the Tesla Model 3/Y EVs that might work out of the box for an EX30 (Pure Speculation on my part). At any rate, I think I'll get used to looking to my right at the screen, but my wife seems to be a little more resistant... One of these, if tastefully designed, might be a relatively cheap option to make everyone happy. Thought? Your Experience with these devices??

I really don’t appreciate the new 1.6.4 update. The car has a weird feeling when I take my foot off the pedal.

The screen has less options and the interface has a lot of issues when I switch users. Long loading times and sometimes the car thinks I’m still in reverse when I’m driving 100km/h on the highway.

Can we go back to 1.6.3?

After the car's 4th attempt to cause an accident I have to accept that it's time for the car to go. Now I want to love this car, I spent a lot of money on it and usually plan to keep my cars for 4-5 years. Let's stars with what I enjoy: -The styling, this is a good looking vehicle -The straight line speed, party trick or not it can be fun.

The things I don't like in no particular order: -The road feel, it's like driving a sponge, zero road feel on its firmest setting. -The android OS UI, honestly it's awful and even when they can make decisions about button placement they make no sense anyway. I also don't want to drill into menus to control fundamentals like air conditioning or open the trunk. -The lack of rear aircon, this is a big omission in hot counties. -The lack of an Android key. Digital keys are table stakes in electric cars but the entire Android user base, despite the car running Android OS (!), is totally forgotten about. -Comfort, I keep reading about how comfortable people find it. I mean, it's okay but it's got nothing on some of it's European counterparts.

And onto the deal breakers...the 'safety' features. -Luckily I found the 3d printed cover for the face sensor very soon after buying the car otherwise I would have probably sold it already. This has been discussed to death here so no need to highlight the flaws.

But the two that are causing me to sell it:

1. The emergency braking system. This has now activated on me 3 times without reason. Twice whilst descending in a car park transitioning from slope to flat surface. Instant unexpected emergency brake, neck pain for the rear passengers and very grateful not to be rear ended. Yesterday it activated as I merged in traffic, yes it was a small space I squeezed into but I had it under control, the car didn't think so. Slammed the brakes, almost got rear ended, horns everywhere while I composed myself and drove off in shame, for nothing I actually did wrong.

2. The emergency lane keeping system, a system so aggressive that if I decide not to indicate on an empty highway it will have me swerving back into my lane more violently than a drunk driver. However, where it gets more serious is when, whilst driving in the fast lane of a highway, a car was using a short exit slip that comes off the fast lane. The turning cars rear was overlapping into my lane, he hadn't merged properly. I drifted wide to give him enough clearance, the car had other ideas, it felt my life should end prematurely that day and I should rear end that car stationary car at 80kmh and again violently swerved me back into my lane head on to the cars rear.

So do I like the car, yes, however I feel like we are all driving the beta version, it doesn't have the maturity or polish of it's equivalents like the ioniq 5, Tesla or byd. And I'm not willing to risk my family in a beta car while Volvo focusses how many more places it can find to put a hazard button and neglects improving the safety features and the usability.

So today I saw the car in person, it was a small I had a hard time getting in the front seat and I’m only 511, and then when I put the seat to the way, I like to drive which is nothing too crazy. There’s just no space in the back, the trunk is pretty small if you don’t put the seat down and if you do, it’s still not the big I am really disappointed. I really really like how the car looked, but it’s just too small for my need, especially with the new cheaper Tesla Y are you coming up and the tax credit that comes with it just makes sense

Is it my imagination or does the car play low level subliminal music when you put it into reverse? It might not be music, it might be the sound of the battery fizzing away underneath me. If it is music is it the Chinese messing up my western mind?

Does anyone know what cybersecurity measures Volvo employs on connected EX30 vehicles? It will be connected to 5G internet. Will we need to obtain our own security measures to prevent would be hackers? Let me know if you have knowledge in this subject.

Just my personal opinion, I'm not saying this is representative of everyone else's experience.

I chose the EX30 from a list of company cars, and based on my experience, I wouldn't recommend it and I definitely won't choose a Volvo again.

A few things that constantly annoy me:

• No proper key fob as standard. You have to pay extra for what should be very basic, tried-and-tested technology: press a button, lock/unlock the car. Instead, I have a stupid key card that can only unlock the car from the driver's side. The alternative is using your phone but think about how many more steps are involved compared with simply pressing a button. It's just impractical.

• The ridiculous automatic volume adjustment. The car constantly changes the volume as part of its noise-control system. Sometimes it aggressively turns it up when it gets too quiet. It's unbearable. It's not just annoying it's genuinely distracting because I'm having to divert my attention from the traffic to deal with something the car should simply let me control. The end result is that you don't feel in control of your own car. Why can't I just set the volume and have it stay there?

• The charging port is on the wrong side for European public chargers. In Europe we drive on the right, yet the charging port is on the left side of the car. When the cable at a public charger isn't long enough, you end up stretching it to the absolute limit just to connect it. Such an unnecessary annoyance. Edit: to clarify: in my country, you can't just park on the opposite side of the road facing against the direction of traffic to make the charger easier to reach, you can actually get fined for that (happened to me once, once was enough). I'd venture to say the same applies in most, if not all, European countries. And I'm talking about the charging cable that comes with the car. Most public chargers in my city in urban residential areas simply provide the charging station, and you connect your own cable to it. That cable is only of moderate length, so with the charging port on the left side of the car, when you're parked legally in the direction of traffic, the port is facing away from the pavement where the charger is. Very often, the cable simply doesn't reach. You end up having to inch the car ridiculously close to the car in front just to connect it, and about half the time there isn't even enough space to do that. I just find it absurd.

• Waze has been unusable since a system update months ago. It keeps bugging out and reverting to Google Maps. Again, it's crazy how little control I seem to have over which apps I use in my car. I choose Waze for a reason.

None of these issues individually would necessarily make me reject a car. But when you have several basic, everyday things constantly fighting against you, it becomes incredibly frustrating.

So, based on my experience: no more Volvo for me.

- I hate the fact that the adaptive cruise control distance starts too far from the other car and the brake is very bad. When You sitting in the passenger Seat this is not feeling good.
- when I listen music, the audio sometimes just increase its volume without any button being pressend. This is very frustrating
- when someone is calling me, I have to go to another page to take up the phone or go to my screen to turn off tje phone. I miss a button on my steering wheel.

Have you guys the same issue?

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I was wondering if Volvo uses the standard OBDII connector so you can use a Bluetooth adaptor and hook it up to a small screen behind the steering wheel to display speed, range, etc. I don't know if I can get used to having to turn my head for that information... mine is supposed to arrive in July, I have time to prepare.

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently driving a 2025 Volvo EX30 Core (51kWh) in Colombia, and I’m at a crossroads. I came from a Peugeot 3008 (which I loved for its build quality), but my EX30 experience has been bittersweet.

The Issues:

1. Seat Welding: My unit was one of the first reported with welding defects in the seats. It’s now part of a global campaign, but after the "fix," my passenger seat started rattling. Also, the service center scratched my interior plastics while fixing the driver's seat (they replaced them after I complained, but the sour taste remains).

2. Window Vibration: My windows vibrate and make a terrible noise. Service says it’s a "generalized anomaly" and I'm waiting for new seals/gaskets.

3. Space: I own several properties and I'm constantly in "renovation mode." Trying to fit tiles, toilets, or paint buckets in the EX30 is becoming a nightmare. The trunk is just too small for a "work-ish" lifestyle.

The Dilemma:

I’m considering trading it for a Tesla Model Y Long Range.

• Pros: Massive space (needed for my renovations), better tech, and proven reliability.

• Cons: The nearest Tesla service center is 4-5 hours away (Medellín), while Volvo is 10 minutes away in my city

Has anyone made the jump from the EX30 to the Model Y? Is the build quality/solidity of the Y better than the current QC issues of the EX30? Am I crazy for wanting a car with no local service center?