[bkushin]

New Volt owner - had my car for around 3 weeks. Couple of questions:
1. CarPlay - does anyone know how to get CarPlay to allow me to scroll through my ENTIRE iTunes library? It seems to default to limiting your view to 8-10 items and then forces you to use Siri to find/play what you're looking for. Two problems with that - 1) I usually don't know what I want to listen to - I'd like to scroll through the library to find something that I'm in the mood for. 2) Siri sucks! It gets it wrong at least half the time, if not more... Oh, and BTW, when playing music from a USB stick or from my iPhone via Bluetooth, there is no such limitation - MyLink lets me scroll freely through the ENTIRE music library on either. Funny, I can scroll through all the music on my phone this way, but not via CarPlay...

2. The most range I've ever gotten on a fully charged battery so far is 49 miles (only once) - it's been mostly ranging from 45-47 miles after most full charges. Will this change over time as it "learns" my driving habits better? Is it typical to not ever get the 53 miles that Chevy claims? Just want to make sure this isn't a symptom of a problem of some kind. BTW, everything else is working great, so no other complaints about the car - overall, I'm very happy!

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Barry

 

[Bacardi]

The range will adjust, the issue often times with reduced range is how you drive, if you change the dash display to the screen with the "ball" you'll see that it doesn't take much accelerator too quickly, usually pressing the accelerator over 15-20% is enough to max out the ball...

 

[gjm3]

1. CarPlay won’t let you endlessly scroll through your tunes when you have the shifter out of ‘park’ – it’s a safety feature. Scroll down as far as you can while you are in drive mode and you will see a line that tells you to use Siri to go any further down. It’s the same when you are trying to scroll down through recent destinations while driving with the inbuilt navigation system.

2. Are you talking about your actual range or your extrapolated range from adding how far you’ve driven to how far the car says you have left in the battery? You won’t be getting 53 miles of actual range, if you are driving 80 mph on the freeway all the time, unless you are going downhill. On the other hand, in warmer temperatures driving around town and at slower speeds, you may well get over 60 miles of range out of the battery.