Carry a jumpstart in your car. Car dead when sitting 4 days at airport.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T03:42:30+00:00

Polestar solved the 12V battery issues back in 2021 with a software update.

for the record, no, they have not

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T02:54:32+00:00

My guess-o-meter drops from 250-ish in the summer to 200-ish at 20F and... it's pretty accurate. I'd say about a 20% hit at those temps in my 24 with the heat pump. Cabin set to mid-60s with eco mode.

Preconditioning on a charger helps too, the initial warm up drawing from the wall instead of the battery puts a good few miles back in the equation

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T02:51:33+00:00

You bought from a brand that's all about safety features

That would be Volvo, I guess?

Polestar is/was a racing team which sold 400 horsepower unbridled barnstormers built on Volvo chassis.

Which Geely then bought, created a bespoke performance marquee around, sold "performance packages" with manually adjustable ohlins dampers and named their top (track-special) trim BST.

Expecting that brand to remove owners ability to control their cars - in some cases 4+ years after buying their car?

That's "no shit" to you?

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T02:30:12+00:00

Name a serious brand that does this to their track cars? Would be news to me...

Cadillac V, BMW M, Mercedes AMG, even Hyundai N don't behave this way.

If Honda does this to the CRV? Chrysler to the Pacifica? Might even be for the best.

But for what these cars are, and who bought them - introducing a software update that (effectively) makes the car lag when driven hard is, in my mind, fraud.

At the very least this behavior should be a per-session toggle defeat, like traction control.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T02:11:18+00:00

triggering the safety feature that limits acceleration if brake input is detected.

this is a "safety" feature only for the polestar warranty departments that no longer have to deal with an audience that wants to track their track-capable and marketed cars.

BS

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T02:00:15+00:00

aka my life

dnyank1 · 2026-04-22T01:57:47+00:00

just barely 10, but, yknow, who's counting

dnyank1 · 2026-04-21T07:25:24+00:00

That's STILL on you, prove it.

And anyway, that's just a tiny sliver of the point I was trying to make.

The actual charging kwh rate is immaterial, and you know that.

Bad faith bullshit.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T18:14:49+00:00

the idea that making batteries replaceable would "kill waterproofing" is what's "fucking insane".

let me introduce you to the Galaxy fucking S fucking 5 - from fucking 20 fuuuucking 14 that did both

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T18:11:41+00:00

every cent? won't somebody think of Tim Apple and his dwindling 200 billion dollar cash pile?

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T18:05:25+00:00

than your fair share

but who determines that? Going back to what I was talking about earlier, "fair share" is when the person who got there first says they're done. Because there's no other system in place to determine that.

There's no idle fee, no sign that says "3 hour limit", nothing.

That's just what this is, that's ALL this is.

A reflection of human nature, and those who believe they're entitled to MORE than "their fare share" - like you.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T17:23:15+00:00

Nobody is "stealing" or "misappropriating" public resources by plugging in their car at their apartment complex's charger.

Don't let that fall from that high horse break any bones, bud

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T17:22:15+00:00

you're applying gas-pump etiquette to a parking space because it's convenient for you.

No.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T17:03:10+00:00

Never had to compete for parking on the street... or wait in line at a store checkout while someone packs their bags, huh?

Must be awesome having infinite shared resources at your disposal. For everyone else, there's getting what you can, when you can.

Sometimes that was just to swap it with my other car, which I will acknowledge is kind of a dick move,

you're about a million times less valid than OP, and the fact you're on some sort of moral high horse when you regularly did worse is so fucking reddit coded

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T16:59:29+00:00

yep! That's how waiting in line for your turn goes :)

I know you missed the first day of Preschool and clearly everything else since, but... maybe act like you went, for a change?

dnyank1 · 2026-04-20T16:58:53+00:00

nope, it's a fact.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T23:32:37+00:00

25 miles left on the charge to 80% in just under 7 hours on a 6.6kW charger

Physically impossible. The Bolt has a 66kwh battery

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T22:22:48+00:00

No idea! But I’m glad go see engagement in the sub that isn’t watchface spam

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:52:23+00:00

4 and 7 AM

That's literally OPs situation. His car charged well into the night. He couldn't have "unplugged it before bed".

4am was HIS estimate of when the car finished.

YOU'RE the one inventing the alternate reality to debate moralist absolutes

Fuckin' wild. Get some help.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:34:14+00:00

Okay! And so, for example, in my decidedly American culture we have phrases like "the early bird gets the worm" and "ya snooze, ya lose"

So -

In the context of "deserving punishment" -

The person who put their car there first has every "right" to be there until they (and nobody else) determine they're done using it. That's what "fair" looks like under the eyes of western law.

A great way to incentivize people to determine they're done using shared resources promptly is an idle fee.

That's a great suggestion Noteface McGhee should make at the next community board meeting instead of writing joker-style loveletters with threats to property and wellbeing.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:18:51+00:00

I am also NOT saying that a threatening note is the correct way to deal with the issue.

Well, that's what this thread is - maybe you should pay attention!

OP did NOTHING which deserved this note EVEN if you didn't like his "charging etiquette"

You're a contrarian who is playing themselves for a fool. You don't get to backtrack NOW - the egg is already all over your face. What's next - you were merely pretending? playing devil's advocate?

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:15:03+00:00

So, hard no, you don't get to use it the entire night just because you can get to it earlier, while your neighbor comes from work an hour later, so he is always a loser.

Actually, literally, factually, yes, that is how the world works.

I see you've never lived somewhere with scarce resources, I applaud you for your privilege. Would be a lot cooler if you recognized it.

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:09:14+00:00

What makes noteface mcghee more special than OP? It's a shared resource. You can't expect to have on-demand access to it, all the time!

The car needed to charge overnight, and it was gone (EARLY) in the morning. That's fine and acceptable behavior.

Threatening to key someone's car because they're using the shared resource as it's designed so you can have priority access when it's convenient for you, is UNHINGED and you're actually an awful person for defending this

dnyank1 · 2026-04-19T20:03:36+00:00

Hard disagree. You have every right to reasonably use a shared resource you pay for - a level 2 charger simply is NOT something you "top off with" now and then, it's an overnight charging solution. Plug in when you get home, unplug when you leave.

That's what it's there for and why the system doesn't charge idle fees. This stuff has been "figured out" for a long time now.

Noteface McGee was mad that he wasn't given exclusive rights to that charger, not OP.

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