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The VW ID.7 offers a huge infotainment upgrade from past EVs
Sitting in the brand new VW ID.7 is a very pleasant experience. This long-wheelbase electric car is the company’s new flagship model and is ideal for longer commutes and distant business meetings, thanks to its spacious interior and nearly 400 miles of range.
Perhaps the most striking feature of this new EV, however, is the updated OS on the 15-inch central display. This has been redesigned to offer a simpler user interface with lots of customisation and a new voice assistant too.
As default, there are two main home screens that you can swipe between on the OS. Both of these screens can be customised, and you can have up to five pages on the system at any one time. It means you could have different screens for different drivers, or different purposes.
New top and bottom bars offer quick access to features. The top bar is a series of customisable quick access buttons, such as navigation, drive mode, phone and parking mode, while the bottom bar is related to the vehicle’s climate controls and seat heating/cooling. The Climate screen now includes the ability to change the direction of the air vents, rather than manually directing them. This has been popular on Tesla models.
IDA is the new VW voice assistant and uses ChatGPT’s large language model to better understand your commands. The nice part though is that you can easily change the ac
