welcome to tech in the car in this video i'm going to show you around the infotainment system
on the kia e nero this car has a lot of tech so if you want to know all about how it all works then
you come to the right place let's start off with this touchscreen in the middle we've got a 10.25
inch touchscreen this is available on top trim the lower trims have a smaller screen available
and what i really like about this is it's very clear and very easy to see what's going on
so looking at the front page of this the home screen you can see there's basically three widgets
your location your battery status and your media source and i've turned the radio off obviously
because we don't want it going off while i'm talking to you we've got the time we got the date
we've got the fact that it's connected to the live services and to the app so i can see what's going
on on my car from my phone and we've got our menu button underneath the screen there are some quick
setting buttons we've got our volume control and our power on and off button
we've got our map button navigation this button is a customizable button so i've set it to take me to
the phone apps like android auto apple car play if i'm using them then we've got our
c contract which lets you move up and down through the tracks or change radio stations
your radio button your media button which will take you to wherever your media is playing from
if it's usb usb if it's android auto carplay it will be there and your setup button
let's press the setup button so you can see we've got vehicle navigation phone connection
data network advanced general sound media display and voice recognition so these are your settings
buttons so hit on vehicle first of all you'll go through and it will show you different drive modes
eco and it will give you the option to choose what level you want the region breaking on if
you want a maximum speed limit and that allows you to adjust your eco potential so you can actually
create more efficiency by for example increasing the regen breaking to level three now we go up to
85 80 and level two 75 on level one so unless you adjust it that's pretty cool do the same in
normal mode you can increase it to level three two one let's put level three so we get sixty percent
and the same with sport as well so you can adjust it and then you can reset it as well
back to standard you can also have a drive mode change alert so it will alert you if you change
into a different driver so if you always want to drive an eco this car will let you know if you've
changed it out of eco then we have our navigation settings this lets me see your units your
display settings your guidance information your data basic stuff you would expect
we have our phone connection which is bluetooth and our android auto and apple carplay settings so
this is very interesting in android auto you have a quarter of the screen taken up by the android
auto logo even though android also can do full screen it doesn't apple car play takes up the full
screen but you can actually change the site that the home button on carplay appears on depending on
which side of the road you're driving on so for a right hand with your car be on one side for a
left hand we wheelchair i'd be on the other side that's something which you can't do in the android
auto settings which is very interesting data network this shows you if your uvo is activated
uvo is the app which kia uses to connect to your phone and give you information about the
car status which is very cool and then we've got kia live which is your traffic information
your points of interest which is live connected advanced this lets you adjust what the buttons do
the tune nub function so this button will actually allow you to zoom in to the maps
or allow you to change radio station media track so i think it makes more sense to have it on
radio station than zooming on apps and then obviously like i said the star button you can
set it for if you want i've said it for phone projection which is android auto for carplay
the steering mode button which is the button which looks like three arrows that also can be changed
to scroll through whatever audio sources you want i've chosen radio bluetooth and phone projection
so lots of cool little settings here which i like if we go to sound this allows you to adjust the
location of the sound it lets you adjust the volume of for example your voice prompts and
directions really cool equalizer as well and then we can go into media this is obviously if
you're connecting usb stick to this it allows you to show the different settings for those and then
the display settings this is the auto illumination whether it's brighter in the daytime and changes
colors in the night or gets less bright at night and also you have a blue light filter which i've
never seen on the car which will make the screen warmer so that's actually what i've got on now
if i turn it off you probably can't see it on the camera but it will make it more warm and less warm
i don't think the camera will be picking this up but i promise you it's definitely doing something
and those are your advanced settings and then we have our voice recognition settings which
lets you choose how much information you want the car to give you in navigation and if you want to
let it process your voice in the cloud so maybe it's more accurate let's hit the home button at
the top here because there is a home button up here and let's go into our battery settings so
we've got our charge management so you can adjust when the charging turns on and turns off you can
schedule it obviously you can do this from the app as well you can set a charging limit so that it
will only charge to 80 because 80 is probably the optimal amount you want for charging to conserve
the battery and also when you're charging at charges out and about the last 20 percent
isn't worth charging because it normally takes about twice as long as the first eighty percent so
you might as well set it eighty percent and then it will give you a notification when it's done
on the app and you can see your charging current you can change that whether you want that to be
maximum minimum or reduced so there's a lot of settings here which i haven't seen on any of the
other electric cars i've had on this channel that you can't normally see or get to which is really
interesting we've got our eco mode we've got our energy information again which is showing
the battery levels and we've got our ev settings so in winter mode this function will help maintain
that but it will reduce the driving rate so we're not in the winter so why is it in winter mode
in summer and we've got a range warning which will let you know if the car doesn't
have enough range to reach the destination which has been set in the car's inbuilt navigation so
not with android auto or carplay but with the car inbuilt navigation and then we've got our
ev route again which will show your range if you're going to exceed the range and there's no
charging and where the charging is along the way so again really cool easy to use i can of course
hit the map button and then it will show me in list my range and the charging points are near
me so right now it's telling me that i can zoom in and my range is to amsterdam of course i have to
go on a boat if i'm good at that there but right now it's telling me that i could potentially
drive north of leeds on the range in this car will it get there watch my range video to find out
i wasn't planning on visiting leeds if i got to leeds then well i mean that would
be a surprise not because of the range just because i wasn't expecting to go to leeds
hopefully we'll get there okay so let's look at the next button so let's go into map
it's very easy and it's very clear and you can choose whether you want motorway access
or whether you want traffic on whether you want to go on certain roads or use tunnels so it's
actually very easy to use navigation system which i actually like very much and there we go and it's
our root guidance and then of course if you click on the nav button next to it you then get to see
your ability to input information of places you want to go so you can put in an address
you can put in a search by the points of interest you can use kia live to find live
parking or live points of interest or indeed the weather what's the weather today is 20 degrees
and it's raining i can tell you that much key a service you can cancel your route you can
search by charging stations and you can show those charging stations along your route as well that's
really cool and talking about charging kia has a service called kia charge which allows you to
use them as a subscription-based service to charge pretty much any electric charging points along the
way you'll see me using it in our range test video but it's pretty cool not to need a separate fob
for charge master for pulse for ionity whatever the company is to have one card which comes
from kia here sorts out for you it's a really clever idea it makes it a lot easier when you're
trying to charge something not having to keep reaching for different files or different apps
so that's a really good idea kia thank you very much for that it will only work with kia cars so
one other benefit of getting a kia electric car so that's our nav choices we can stroll across here
we can do detours etc we can also set favorites home office and up to three other favorites to
make it quicker to navigate through then we have our radio and of course you've got dab fm am you
can scroll through you can search just like you would expect your media settings so if there's
media connected you can then go into the media you can have usb you can have your phone plugged in
you can have bluetooth and you can also have android auto and apple carplay as well if we go
back to the home button here and we scroll to the side we can then see the same buttons underneath
replicated on the screen except for there's a bit more information here
that lets you see what's going on so we've got map we've got navigation now i've connected up
my phone with android auto you can see the android auto button is there and you can see what android
auto looks like on here so like i said about a quarter of the screen has got the android also
logo only showing me what my phone is that's a shame it's not full screen you'll see carplay in a
minute is full screen this disappoints me this is not in any way anything to do with google or apple
this is something which android auto and carplay has built in and the car manufacturers can use and
this is not in any way a go at here because lots of car companies don't have widescreen android
auto and it's a real shame android is the largest used platform in the world and they should be
able to get that parity with carplay from apple so that's a shame but we've got android auto it works
you've got your music you've got your apps you've got everything you want and being a touch screen
car android auto now has games in the car so this will only work more stationary but there
are now games on android auto and obviously this works exactly how android auto would be
expected to work and you hit the key a button to go back to the main screen if i touch phone now
it will now connect to my phone it's connected via android auto so it knows
it's in here and i can go through and see the favorites contacts and dial numbers and also
messages so i can see that information on here you can obviously do this through android auto
you don't need to hit the phone button if i tap the home button up here it will take us back there
so car play is now connected and you can see we've got the full screen here again why does
android auto do that and i can scroll through and i can see everything you would expect from carplay
on a nice big screen which is pretty cool and we can go into spotify and it will load up spotify
and it's got a nice big screen here that you can see and it also shows me that information
in the middle on here then a very good signal where i am now so that's probably why it's not
loading but you can see it's nice and clear and sharp now let's look at the ev settings so you've
already seen this but this is the button through to here very easy we've got our voice memo if
you want to record a voice memo you can record it on here so maybe some vital information that you
want you can do that record it and save it now we have our climate settings there are manual buttons
underneath here which you can use to turn on the air conditioning or the heating you can also hit
the driver only button to only heat the drive area and you can make all those adjustments under there
which is very very cool you can also see this little widget showing you your battery information
your range information and your nearest station so you're telling me 273 miles of range
right now so that's climate control driving info i haven't been anywhere today but you
would see your speed distribution your deceleration and your acceleration
pretty cool to see that and you've got your manual and then you've got your favorite so you can save
things as favorites so for example your electric vehicle settings your range search stations if
we add those are those favorites these are now favorites so i can just click on it really quickly
and easily to go to search stations or to show my range and that's it up in the corner we can see
our status we can see the phone is connected with bluetooth we can see our menu button so this lets
you edit the home widgets so i can change that so instead of being the map it could be the weather
it could be the driving info i quite like it as it is right now but i can do that we can hit default
and that will reset the factory settings that is the factory settings let's look at the instrument
cluster so we've got the steering wheel here and on the steering wheel you can see these
settings buttons so if i hit this button here that will let me swap between the different
options so we've got our settings we've got our energy flow we've got our map information we've
got driver assistance and back to our settings so this is really interesting because i haven't seen
this on other cars i can scroll through the user settings on here so if i scroll in a bit more here
i can then use the buttons to turn the lane safety on and off the lane departure the warning the
driver assistance don't want high sensitivity with the driver attention settings the sec response
your lane following your forward collision warnings how early do i want them all late
your rear cross traffic warnings your speed limit warnings so this is all
in the binacle which is very unusual door settings i wanted to auto lock auto unlock
lights one touch turn indicators ambient light brightness and being like colors i
mentioned this earlier but we got bronze red eco green blue and gray and white
and your head lamp delay as well we've got our sound so you can change that for the parking
how loud do we want the parking information it's probably loud enough your convenience so do you
want the seats to move back from the forwards i really like how they do that utility mode no
let's not do that rear descent alert welcome mirror light wireless charging on wiper and
lights display auto rear wiper smart recuperation let's turn that on i see road warning we can swap
into energy flow now and we can see the average consumption we can see the driving information
how i've been driving economical normal we can go to the next setting here which is our map
information i already showed you and the cruise control so you can turn the cruise control on
it can show your retention level your speed limit warning and your tire pressures which will display
when driving and then back to your energy flow so this is very unusual to have this information
and be able to adjust it in the instrument binnacle by using these buttons
that's highly highly unusual and very very interesting
so something new to learn about how cars are done one thing actually which is also interesting is
when you put it into reverse the car will actually i'll demonstrate this we'll put into reverse
the car will show in the middle here your position and it will also show it on
here in the pinnacle but what's interesting about the binacle is
that when you pull forward it will only show on here it won't show on here so this display here
will suddenly appear over here and this will go back to whatever you had on that screen before
which is slightly unusual please ignore the bing i'll put it back into normal mode
so really interesting that the bina core has information about the car settings which you
can't get in the infotainment system also when reversing what happens is you reverse back
it will show in the middle on the infotainment display but when you pull forward it will
show the car information and if there's anything in front on the driver display
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